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50 years today!
TV started in this country 50 years ago today, and we just watched a celebrity gameshow based on a lot of the people and the local and overseas programs on our screens since then. I don't normally go for gameshows (except for University Challenge and Mastermind, now sadly long gone) but this was a fun format to show a lot of clips from the past. The teams didn't take it seriously at all so it was a lot of fun, and I'm amazed that Lucy Lawless (who lives here now) could sing an entire KFC ad from 1975. Lucy's team won on audience applause, yay!
Another actor I was surprised to see turned up in an ad during the show. We usually zap them with the good old TiVo, but we recognised Matthew Fox from Lost and went back for a look. He's advertising an eye roll-on by L'Oreal (I googled it) which has vitamin C and caffeine to reduce bags. WTH? And here's proof it was him (mouse over the photos). And look, Evangeline Lilly is a 'spokesmodel' too. Jack and Kate, bwahahaha. Pity they never got Terry O'Quinn and Michael Emerson to do something as well: head depilatories for Locke and vitamin E cream for Ben's many facial scars perhaps?
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I've seen a L'Oreal ad with Evangeline Lilly but I had no idea Foxy was a 'spokesmodel' as well.
head depilatories for Locke and vitamin E cream for Ben's many facial scars perhaps?
Bwahahaha!Good ones! How about a conditioner for Sawyer's golden tresses or maybe he could even sell a moisturizer for the rugged yet sensitive man. Sawyer could sell anything couldn't he?
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There may well have been Dharma products (though probably not a straightener for Sawyer). The women were plucking their eyebrows on the Island; Claire plucked hers almost out of existence and she wasn't even combing her matted wig. :-P Anyway now I have images of Jack applying his under-eye roll-on every morning.
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Back in the 50s and 60s it was like the USSR; you had to put your name down for a new car and wait about two years (I'm a bit vague on this, having heard it from my father who was delighted about a two-tone zephyr his parents got in their second colour choice which they waited for for ages), you could only take or send a certain amount of money overseas, people went to Fiji and Singapore to buy electrical goods... and everyone used to leave their doors unlocked. The past is another country. Russian friends are fascinated by the similarities to what they grew up with. By the 80s though, it was all capitalist boom-time with old buildings being demolished and cranes everywhere. :-( Actually, being rather a socialist, I'd pick the old days of no unemployment and little crime over today if it wasn't for the attitude to women.
Programs took years to get to us. B7 was shown about 10 years after it was on in the UK. In fact only recently, in the last few years, have we started to get programs only weeks or months later. We're still waiting for fibre-optic and an end to capped access though.
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you could only take or send a certain amount of money overseas
We did have that for a while here, starting in the late 1960s I think when the economy was in dire straits. I can't recall how long it lasted.
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Maybe not, but people didn't need to steal. Everyone had enough money and good jobs--usually for life. There wasn't any violent crime either: people didn't hate each other enough to beat up and kill. OK, there were probably pub brawls, but it was a safe and friendly place to live. I wouldn't walk in the streets and definitely not in a park after dark; too many women get attacked and killed.
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