1. Ed McMahon
2. Farrah Fawcett
3. Michael Jackson

I never thought Michael Jackson would round out the trio.  In a way, it feels like Michael Jackson died a long time ago.  I remember thinking he was pretty nifty around 1982 but it was soon after getting burned during that Pepsi commercial that he just got weird and I lost total interest.  It seemed like the majority of people lost interest.  And yet people would turn out for his concerts. Who were these people? I’ve never met anyone who admitted to liking Michael Jackson after the 80’s ended. Watching the news coverage yesterday I said to Lisa, “Gosh that’s not a big crowd at all gathering outside the hospital.”
“Yeah, that’s because the planes from Japan haven’t landed yet.” she replied.

Growing up, I had not one but TWO Farrah Fawcett dolls. The first one was her as Jill from Charlie’s Angels, the other one was her as herself– FARRAH! I preferred the Farrah doll to the Jill doll because Farrah was taller and the same size as my Cher doll and Bionic Woman doll. This allowed them to play well against each other. Let me just tell you those three got into tons of wild trouble! Cher and Farrah would operate on Jaime and then they’d hit each other over the head with Jaime’s appendages. They weren’t as bad as my Marie Osmond doll though. Marie ignored those girls. All Marie wanted to do was make out with her brother Donny and hand out purple butt-print autographs to her fans. Getting back to Farrah, I liked her in Logan’s Run and Myra Breckinridge. Loved her in Myra Breckinridge. Guys, you may want to rent that movie if you want to experience Raquel Welch seducing Farrah Fawcett. It’s priceless. The whole movie is priceless but what can I say, I just love awful movies. The one thing that puzzled me about Farrah is she so desperately wanted to be taken seriously so she started making all those somber Made for TV movies about murdering her abusive husband and torturing the man who raped her YET… she still opted to make a pay per view show where she painted canvasses with her naked body. That just seems counter intuitive. But maybe it’s just me?

I got nothing on Ed McMahon. My only real memory of him is as Dave Clark’s partner on Bloopers and Bleeps and Practical Jokes. He seemed jovial enough except he didn’t leave much of an impression. Is it that obvious that I have always gone to bed early?