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Season 4 of Saturday Night Live comes out on DVD Tuesday. It's the 78-79 season.
I was watching SNL regularly as a kid and in the grip of Star Wars fever. I was also starting to kinda/sorta like girls and thought Princess Leia was really cute. I will always have a fondness for the hairbuns and white dress look of Leia in the first movie. Still, I would look at pictures of her to see if I could make out any of her body under all that white fabric.
Anyway, Carrie Fisher guest hosted SNL that season. And the first skit was a spoof of the Annette Funacello and Frankie Avalon beach party movies where Princess Leia gets beamed down in the middle of a scene with Frankie and Annette(I know, I know). She's in her original Star Wars hair and white dress. Well, I don't remember too much about the skit except that at one point, she tears off the white dress and is wearing a golden bikini underneath. Talk about wish fulfillment! She spends the rest of the skit singing and dancing around as exposed as I could've possibly hoped for as an eleven years old watching network TV.
Speaking of "hoping". In the days before you were allowed to see R rated movies. How many of you had an overinflated idea of what was shown in them? I used to believe that if it was R rated then whatever pretty girl star it had had to have gotten naked in it. And if the horror movie was rated R, it had blood and horror so intense that it might earn you a straight jacket.
My overactive ideas of what R rated movies show was pretty much put to rest when I got to see The Jerk and Bernadette Peters stayed dressed the whole movie. And for a while, in the 80's I thought of R rated horror as "neutered" because I read about all the stuff that had to be cut to get an R in Fangoria.
I was watching SNL regularly as a kid and in the grip of Star Wars fever. I was also starting to kinda/sorta like girls and thought Princess Leia was really cute. I will always have a fondness for the hairbuns and white dress look of Leia in the first movie. Still, I would look at pictures of her to see if I could make out any of her body under all that white fabric.
Anyway, Carrie Fisher guest hosted SNL that season. And the first skit was a spoof of the Annette Funacello and Frankie Avalon beach party movies where Princess Leia gets beamed down in the middle of a scene with Frankie and Annette(I know, I know). She's in her original Star Wars hair and white dress. Well, I don't remember too much about the skit except that at one point, she tears off the white dress and is wearing a golden bikini underneath. Talk about wish fulfillment! She spends the rest of the skit singing and dancing around as exposed as I could've possibly hoped for as an eleven years old watching network TV.
Speaking of "hoping". In the days before you were allowed to see R rated movies. How many of you had an overinflated idea of what was shown in them? I used to believe that if it was R rated then whatever pretty girl star it had had to have gotten naked in it. And if the horror movie was rated R, it had blood and horror so intense that it might earn you a straight jacket.
My overactive ideas of what R rated movies show was pretty much put to rest when I got to see The Jerk and Bernadette Peters stayed dressed the whole movie. And for a while, in the 80's I thought of R rated horror as "neutered" because I read about all the stuff that had to be cut to get an R in Fangoria.
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