Oddly enough, I am now in the middle of rereading a book I haven't read since 1988 - "Looking for Rachel Wallace," a 1980 novel in the Spenser mystery series by Robert B. Parker. The tough but cerebral Boston P.I. is working as a bodyguard for an outspoken lesbian feminist author, and in one scene, clearly based on the similar event from Bryant's life, the author is attacked at a book signing by two men wielding a chocolate cream pie. Spenser subdues the attackers but is unable to prevent the pie from hitting her in the chest. I'm sure I noted the similarity back in '88, but to read the passage again so soon after Bryant's death seems especially fitting.
On Friday, January 10, 2025 at 2:20:37 PM UTC-5 PGage wrote: > I try not to say bad things about people on the day they die, but will > make an exception for Bryant, who was the worst. > > Always like this incident, not so much because I approve of assaulting > people with banana cream pies, but for how it shows how hateful, programmed > and stilted was her so called religiosity. > > https://youtu.be/kC__Q0yhDkk?si=cHwVzSZTULrkn607 > > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 at 11:11 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I suspect Meta will create an AI version of her on their social media >> >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Former Miss Oklahoma Anita Bryant had a steady career with some hit >>> records (notably "Paper Roses"), regular appearances on TV variety hours >>> and lots of commercials (most notably for the Florida Citrus >>> Commission)--and then in 1977 when Dade County, FL (where she lived) >>> enacted a law prohibiting discrimination against gays, she objected loudly >>> and started an organization called Save Our Children (which started that >>> trope about LGBTQs), thereby pretty much killing her career outside of "The >>> 700 Club" and other TV religious shows--on Dec. 16 in Edmond, OK of cancer: >>> >>> >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/arts/music/anita-bryant-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oE4.qwO6.VHyL562lsgew&smid=url-share >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/31be844e-4a22-44e3-8742-a0108b8e98a8n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/31be844e-4a22-44e3-8742-a0108b8e98a8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DYeD6ErqBoKujqXQ9EZit81vNEH%3DCbUbUKup6Q1jzH0A%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DYeD6ErqBoKujqXQ9EZit81vNEH%3DCbUbUKup6Q1jzH0A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/23525d43-ec05-422e-b2b2-5c408573da67n%40googlegroups.com.
