Switched to WKRP In Cincinnati while vacuuming and dusting in honor of Loni Anderson, who played the sensible receptionist Jennifer. Newscaster Les Nesserman is thrilled to be going on "A Date With Jennifer" when he's able to get her to join him for an awards party. Jealous Herb Tarek gets Arthur to ban fraternization among employees, but Les and Jennifer both end up pointing out how silly his complaint is.
Normally, Jennifer dates sweet, wealthy older men who adore her and give her gifts, but in "Jennifer Falls In Love," she's met her match in a hunky younger repair man. He's everything she's ever dreamed about...until she realizes he's only interested in her money. She finally comes to the conclusion that maybe nice older men aren't such bad things to date after all.
Headed out to the school after a quick lunch. The older kids were really rowdy today. They'd had a carnival in the gym earlier, with games and popcorn and cotton candy. Though it was long done by the time I arrived, they still hadn't really calmed down from it. The head teacher had to call them to circle twice to get them to settle down, including when they were incredibly noisy, even for them, during free play time. I also had to put my foot down about the excessive amount of paper they use for drawing. I was tearing coloring pages in half so they could all have something to color on. We don't have enough paper for them to be stapling books or cutting things out.
It's probably just as well that I was moved to helping with the little kids for the last hour. I ended up coloring with them, too, but they were a lot quieter and better-behaved. (Part of that may have been because, according to them, they spent a lot less time at the carnival.) The older kids admired my artworks of Maple finding Scott in the wasteland after Pavla casts her out from the upcoming Maplepunzel and the Nutcracker (Scott) fighting the Mouse King (Pruitt) while Betty prepares to throw her shoe in The WENN Nutcracker Suite. I drew Bear Scott and Eagle Victor with Betty and Maple from Hilary and the Beasts and a window box filled with summer flowers with the younger kids. I even showed both groups pictures from WENN on my Pinterest site, and discussed how unfair its sudden demise was (and how it wouldn't happen today with social media) with one of the older girls.
Went two blocks down to Phillies Phatties for dinner right after I got out of school. Had a slice of mushroom, a slice of chicken bacon ranch, and a Diet Pepsi while listening to Spanish language Telemundo news. They were dead as a doornail, but it was also 5 PM, kind of early for dinner.
After I got home, I went straight into Rock Rock Rock! I go further into this early B-movie rock teen flick from 1956 at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Worked on Hilary and the Beasts while the movie was on. With the end of the year looming, Betty and Maple are trying their hardest to get Bear to translate those codes on the papers and records, even though Eagle continues to brood over Maple's obsession with hearing Victor on the records. Hilary asks Bear why they have records with Jeff and Victor's voice on them. He gets closer to telling her, but he still clams up when the pain in his head gets too unbearable. He yells so loudly, Troll runs in. Hilary then asks him, but he coughs so much, she claims he must have a cold and pushes him upstairs to be put to bed.
Finished the night with one of my new records and an older CD collection. Anne Murray's Let's Keep It That Way came out four years after Love Songs. Most of the songs here are covers, including a rather nice "Tennessee Waltz." One of the originals wound up being one of her biggest hits, "You Needed Me."
Listened to Malt Shop Memories: All I Have to Do Is Dream while working on the Rock Rock Rock! review. Most of the songs on this Time-Life set came out after 1956, but they definitely have the right spirit. "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen," "Goin' Out of My Head," "Teen Angel," and "Stagger Lee" are all songs Dori would have loved. We even get two from Connie Francis, "Lipstick On My Collar" and the title song from Where the Boys Are.
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