Rachel Wallace was less of a douche-nozzle than Bryant, though she and Spenser butted heads as she made occasional cameos throughout run of the series.
Have you read any of the Ace Atkins penned Spenser novels? To me, Atkins doesn’t quite turn a phrase or play with characters as well as Parker, but they are good stories. Kevin M. (RPCV) On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/23525d43-ec05-422e-b2b2-5c408573da67n%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/CAKgmY4A3PRJh5FizUOHYajZSuy_qOEq4Q2Vbavxd-odbGndJ_Q%40mail.gmail.com.
