Wink Martindale Was in a Movie!

C Alliaume

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Nov 7, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/7/97

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That he'd probably just as soon forget.

I don't know if it's been brought up before, but it was called "Let's
Rock," from 1958. Starring that noted rock 'n' roll star Julius La Rosa,
and featuring Phyllis Newman, Conrad Janis, Della Reese, Paul Anka, Danny
and the Juniors, and the Winker.

Don't look too hard in the video section; according to Leonard Maltin,
it's never appeared on video.

I discovered this while reviewing photo quality of a book I'm working on.
The photo's not of Wink; it features La Rosa and a buxom co-star. (It's a
book of buxom '50s and '60s pin-up stars.)

-- Cur

T. Jay

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Nov 7, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/7/97

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C Alliaume wrote:
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> That he'd probably just as soon forget.
>
> I don't know if it's been brought up before, but it was called "Let's
> Rock," from 1958. Starring that noted rock 'n' roll star Julius La Rosa,
> and featuring Phyllis Newman, Conrad Janis, Della Reese, Paul Anka, Danny
> and the Juniors, and the Winker.

My nomination for "Worst Wink Martindale Movie" had to be "The Great
American Traffic Jam".

IIRC, it was an NBC Movie of the Week, and made for NBC back in the
early 80s. It tried to star nearly every living celebrity of the time.

I also believe that in the movie, Wink was the cause of the start of
"LA's Worst Traffic Jam" -- He was playing golf near a freeway trying to
concentrate, and lost it when people kept blowing their horns. Then
Wink started hitting golf balls towards the freeway.

It is rumoured that this world famous NBC movie may have been used as
kindling to start the fire for the mass Genocide!! :-)

T. Jay

Vinylfan

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Yes, another Wink film was "The Lively set", he sings in that one .

Randy Amasia

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T. Jay <net...@mail.ohio.net> wrote in article
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> It is rumoured that this world famous NBC movie may have been
used as
> kindling to start the fire for the mass Genocide!! :-)

While I realize no harm was intended, I really, really take
strong exception to the use of "Genocide" to describe something
as trivial as the tossing/burning/what-have-you of a bunch of
television shows. Both history and (relatively) current events
are rife with vicious examples of what genocide really is.

Randy

Brad Francini

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Nov 8, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/8/97

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On 7 Nov 1997 05:20:55 GMT, "Randy Amasia" <ran...@loop.com> wrote:

>While I realize no harm was intended, I really, really take
>strong exception to the use of "Genocide" to describe something
>as trivial as the tossing/burning/what-have-you of a bunch of
>television shows. Both history and (relatively) current events
>are rife with vicious examples of what genocide really is.

Well, historically, what NBC did to its tapes was hardly worth a
chapter in a history book. But in terms of the game show "world"
itself, which I guess we're discussing here on ATGS, NBC's blatant
disregard for the tens of thousands of hours of work done by hosts,
celebs, producers...the list goes on...is truly thoughtless and
mindless. The mass erasing of tapes was really a kind of genocide as
it applies to the game show world. As for U.S. History...well,
perhaps its not like the JFK Assassination...:)

Brad

AlfonzoS

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Nov 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/9/97

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The Winker also appeared a few years ago in the Julie Brown parody of the
Madonna film. It was called Medusa: Dare to be Truthful. Wink played himself.
That was a stretch!

Alfonzo Smith