By Bill Brioux
For those who first heard it, you could not think it: Jerry Mathers, from TV's go away It To Beaver, were killed in Vietnam. Then be aware got here that Abe Vigoda, the actor who performed the curmudgeonly cop Fish on Barney Miller, used to be useless; and that Mikey, who may consume something because the lifestyles Cereal tyke, had eaten too many Pop Rocks and exploded. along with exposing us to objects we could not in a different way think, tv can persuade us of items that by no means truly occurred. yet how did those outrageous television legends start? How did they unfold from study rooms to boardrooms throughout North the United States and past? And, most crucial, what do those rumors, so fast reworked into evidence and customary wisdom, display approximately our courting to truth during the medium of tv? installed different phrases, what precisely is it that have been doing whilst have been dealing in those outstanding rumors—are we chasing after fantastic truths or just extra awesome entertainment?To take one telling instance: Jerry Mathers used to be no longer really killed in Vietnam—but the fundamental feel of this lie wasn't a ways faraway from the feelings factually expressed within the two-page unfold of the faces of the useless in Time journal. during this compelling work—which is supplemented with interviews with the various humans implicated in those rumors—author invoice Brioux exposes the truth at the back of the various tales that presently flow in our tradition. via those tales (both real and false), he sheds a revealing mild on simply what function those rumors play in modern society—and what function our society performs in regard to those rumors to boot.
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If Tom-Tom can become all unglued over Katie Holmes on Oprah, well, anything can happen. RUMOR: The Young & The Restless’s Eileen Davidson told TV’s Phil Donahue that she was born a man. FALSE: He/she whodunits turned up years before Ciara was even born. In the mid’80s, a rumor started to circulate that Eileen Davidson, who played Ashley Abbott for several years on The Young and the Restless (Y&R), was originally a man. No wonder some wise guys called the show The Hung and the Breastless. This rumor stuck for decades despite Davidson, who also appeared on Days of Our Lives and Santa Barbara, being voted one of the most beautiful women in daytime drama by Soap Opera Digest.
Characters on Saved by the Bell drew tens of thousands of votes. For some, it seems, no more Zack or Slater was pure wish fulfillment. Happily married with two young children, Gosselaar addressed all the rumors on a 1998 press junket to promote Dead Man on Campus. “There’s a rumor that I’m dead or I’m dying or whatever, these great rumors that I’m a drug addict, that I’m gay,” he said. “It doesn’t bother me. Whatever they say, it’s fine by me. ” CHAPTER 4 Lucy, You’ve Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do: A Couple of Persistent I Love Lucy Myths t was no rumor or myth—everybody loved Lucy.
Future Marcus Welby star Robert Young played her all-knowing dad and movie star Jane Wyatt her always-there mom. Billy Gray and Elinor Donahue played her teen siblings Bud and Betty. The series presented a glossy, paternalistic, some would say too perfect, picture of family life in America at mid century. ” That probably sounds harsh to people who grew up with the Anderson family. More harsh was what happened to Chapin in real life after the series ended. (Especially since it didn’t have to end.