SNL and Dick Button
creepygirl
Hanks doing an infantile cowboy program, and a dead-on impersonation of
Dick Button. ("Oho! A change of pace!" with the exact Button intonation).
Anyone else remember this, and who the actor was who impersonated him?
Leslie Arai creepygirl@.asu.edu
"Do you think some people work harder at being stupid than others?"
--Frank Pembleton, HOMICIDE
Bcingu6
Jason Preistly falling all over the place.
Melinda
Bcingu6
Annechar
French skater who might possibly medal. Shortly into her program, she
fell and Scott Hamilton said "Oh, there goes the gold". Then she fell
again and Scott said "There goes the silver". and she fell again and he
replied, "There goes the bronze". I think that this poor young skater
fell five times.....you can picture Scott Hamilton's reactions to each
fall.
SNL had a very funny skit where they had one of their comic playing Scott
Hamilton and their guest host (I think that it was Jason Priestly) playing
the young female skater. Of course, SNL took it to the extreme and it was
hilarious. My husband will frequently refer to that skit when he watches
a skater having a very bad night with falls.
Lynn J. Fancher
writes:
>At the "92" Olympics at the Ladies final, there was a "big" story
about a
>French skater who might possibly medal. Shortly into her program, she
>fell and Scott Hamilton said "Oh, there goes the gold". Then she fell
>again and Scott said "There goes the silver". and she fell again and
he
>replied, "There goes the bronze". I think that this poor young skater
>fell five times.....you can picture Scott Hamilton's reactions to each
>fall.
>
This was Letitia Hubert, I think. It was a pretty painful story. She
had dazzled everyone in the short--a great and delightful surprise.
She made it into the top flight for the long program (I'm not sure what
her placement was), then drew last position. There was a string a few
days ago about how skating order in the final skate affected a
competitor, and I'm sure that Hubert was a terrific example of how
devastating it can be. She was a disaster. Hers was the last skate of
the broadcast, and they ended up cutting away part way through the
program, because she had fallen so many times that it was becoming
simply humiliating. The flip side to Rudy's story, I think. It was a
shame.
Lynn
Narciso Ronald A
so bad for her. I think she fell from 5th to something like 12th place.
But she made up for her Olympic performance with a strong 4th at World's,
I believe. Almost beating out Chen Lu for 3rd. Does anyone know if
Laetitia is competing this season?
Ronald Narciso
rnar...@students.uiuc.edu ------- General Engineering Undergraduate
University of Illinois
Louis Epstein
: Yeah I remember watching Laetitia fall and fall and fall again. I felt
: But she made up for her Olympic performance with a strong 4th at World's,
: I believe. Almost beating out Chen Lu for 3rd. Does anyone know if
: Laetitia is competing this season?
She and Marie-Pierre Leray did not compete at French Nationals...that's how
Vanessa Gusmeroli and Veronique Fleury made it to Europeans.
SPedder844
Spade.
Robert Dister
Narciso Ronald A <rnar...@ux7.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Yeah I remember watching Laetitia fall and fall and fall again. I felt
> so bad for her. I think she fell from 5th to something like 12th place.
> But she made up for her Olympic performance with a strong 4th at World's,
> I believe. Almost beating out Chen Lu for 3rd. Does anyone know if
> Laetitia is competing this season?
>
She was actually in (a tenuous) third place at 92 Worlds (ahead of Chen
Lu) prior to Tonya Harding's free skate. Harding's free skate shifted one
or two ordinals and dropped Hubert to 4th behind Chen Lu. The spectators
not familiar with the ordinal system were a bit perplexed on that one.
Jon Seydl
: Yeah I remember watching Laetitia fall and fall and fall again. I felt
: so bad for her. I think she fell from 5th to something like 12th place.
: But she made up for her Olympic performance with a strong 4th at World's,
: I believe. Almost beating out Chen Lu for 3rd. Does anyone know if
: Laetitia is competing this season?
Apparently Hubert has had a rather bad injury that has kept her out of
all the fall internationals. My understanding was that she was now
training on Cape Cod with the Scotvolds (or at least Evy Scotvold--is
Mary Scotvold working exclusively with Paul and Nancy now?)
--
Jon Seydl jse...@sas.upenn.edu
Tracie Bezerra
: What i remember was David Spade doing an impresion of Scott Hamilton and
: Jason Preistly falling all over the place.
: Melinda
My favorite line from this skit "He should just leave." Now, whenever I'm
watching skating and I see someone having a bad program, I always
think, "he/she should just leave" :)
--
Tracie
tbez...@slonet.org