Thirty years ago today
On Thursday I posed at Northern Secondary School all day and at night I modeled for a sculpture class at Central Technical School.
Sunday, 9 March 2025
Saturday, 8 March 2025
Barry Dennen
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the second session of four. It’s still going out of tune. As soon as I can turn the humidifiers off I’m going to try to find a luthier to fix it.
I weighed 86.3 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I brought the stepladder in from the deck and filled the rest of the parts of the bathroom wall that are too high to reach with a chair. Next I’ve got to buy another bucket of drywall compound. I also need to get a new set of doorknobs or handles for the bathroom door.
I weighed 86.5 kilos before lunch, which is the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since February 22.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown. I stopped at Doug Miller Books to ask if they would order my book but they only sell second hand. The guy was quite friendly though and wished me luck. On the way home I stopped at Freshco to buy the toilet paper that I forgot yesterday. While I was there I grabbed another five bags of their super cheap red grapes.
I weighed 86.55 at 18:30.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:30.
I continued to search for generation gap films of the 50s and 60s but nothing grabbed me. Finally I just searched for, found, and started watching “The Blackboard Jungle”. I viewed the first half an hour and I think it has stuff I can use for my “Seven Shades of Blues” video.
I had a potato and steamed peas with gravy while watching season 3, episode 22 of Batman.
This is continued from the previous story. Shame and his gang are holding Batgirl hostage after dosing her with fear gas. Frontier Fanny, the mother of Shame’s girl Calamity Jan is in police custody. Shame robs a gun store for ammunition to prepare for the great train robbery. Jan suddenly realizes that her mother is missing. She eventually convinces Shame to swap Batgirl for her. He sends Chief Standing Pat to Commissioner Gordon’s office to arrange for the exchange. Last time Pat only spoke in smoke signals while puffing a cigar but now he speaks in that stereotypical pidgin English of the pre-socially conscious scripted cinematic First Nations person. Gordon refuses the deal but Batman argues Batgirl’s value and says they’ll accept the terms. Pat says to bring Fanny to the Central American pavilion at the Gotham World’s Fair. A time is set for the switch but Shame plans to get there early and bushwack Batman and Robin. But as the heroes arrive with Fanny in the face of the drawn guns of Shame and his gang, Batman throws a chemical bomb that changes the chemical property of metal to make it twenty times heavier. This causes Shame and his gang to drop their guns. The big group fight begins and while her captors are distracted, Batgirl cuts herself free to join in the battle. But as his gang is losing, Shame shoots some piñatas that are hanging above Batman, Batgirl and Robin down onto their heads, stunning them long enough for Shame and his gang to get away. Later Batgirl tells Batman that Shame plans a train robbery and so they have to figure out which train he means. Batman remembers that today is the day the government ships all the old money out of town by train to be burned. Meanwhile Shame and his gang board the Money Train and spray fear gas at those in charge of the money. They steal all the money and get away before Batman, Batgirl and Robin arrive. Batman distributes bravery tablets to the fear gas victims. Back at the Batcave Batman programs a Bat drone to write a message across the sky calling Shame a coward and challenging him to a one on one fight with no weapons on Neptune Avenue in the deserted tenement district at high noon. In an alley adjacent to Neptune Avenue, Shame’s gang is hidden and waiting to shoot Batman when he and Shame are five meters apart. Shame steps onto the street and begins hurling insults at Batman. He tells Batman he’s too grim. Batman thanks him for the constructive criticism. Shame says, “Your mother wears army boots”. Batman admits she does and finds them quite comfortable. The gang gets ready to shoot at Batman but behind them Robin and Batgirl are hidden, against Batman’s wishes, because they suspected an ambush. Batgirl ropes Jan and Fanny while Robin lassos Fred and Pat, leaving Shame on his own against Batman. When Shame realizes this he pulls a gun from his hat, but Batman knocks it from his hand. Shame begins to beg for his life but then attacks Batman when his guard is down. Batman wins the fight and then turns to the fourth wall to preach to us that good always triumphs over evil. That’s some horseshit right there. Later we see King Tut escaping from prison.
Fred was played by Barry Dennen in his television debut. After graduating from UCLA he went to New York where he studied in acting workshops and performed in cabarets while living with his platonic girlfriend Barbara Streisand. He created and directed a nightclub act featuring Barbara that launched her career. In 1968 he moved to England for 15 years. There he created the role of the Emcee in the original West End production of Cabaret. He won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He played Pontius Pilot on the original recording of Jesus Christ Superstar with Deep Purple singer Ian Gillin as Jesus. A year later he played the same role in the Broadway production. Two years after that he reprised his performance in the film version. In 1970 he made his film debut when he co-starred in The Juggler of Notre Dame. On television he played a clone of Hitler in an episode of Wonder Woman. He co-starred in The Dark Crystal. In 1997 he published his memoir My Life With Barbara.
March 8, 1995: I performed at Fat Albert's open stage
On Wednesday I posed for a full day at Northern Secondary School. In the evening I went to the Fat Albert’s open stage to perform.
Friday, 7 March 2025
Dorothy Kirsten
On Thursday morning I memorized the fourth verse of “Le petit Lauriston”. There’s one long verse left to learn.
I worked out the chords to all but the last line of “Cha cha cha des chauves” (Cha Cha of the Bald) by Serge Gainsbourg from 1960. I should have it finished tomorrow and will also probably have it published on my Christian’s Translations blog with even some time to search for the next song I missed in my Gainsbourg translation project.
I weighed 87.15 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I called She Said Boom to ask them to order my book. I learned that they don’t order books. Although they sell new and used records they only sell used books. I didn’t know that. I think years ago I had my chapbook “Adventures in Standing Still” for sale there on consignment.
I weighed 87.1 kilos before lunch.
I took a siesta at 14:30 and woke up at 16:18. It was just after 17:00 when I got away for my bike ride. Even though I was late I decided I needed the exercise of going downtown. I stopped at Freshco on the way back where the red grapes were super cheap but only some of them were firm. I got several small bags. I also bought a pack of raspberries, roasted red pepper hummus, roasted onion hummus, Full City Dark coffee, a jar of salsa, a bag of frozen peas, a bag of frozen lima beans, and some coconut based ice cream. It was time consuming trying to find products that are not made in the US. I was fooled by the Old El Paso salsa because it was labeled as a “Mexican” product but when I looked it up on line later I saw that it’s made in the States. I forgot to buy toilet paper so I’ll have to use paper towels until I go back there tomorrow evening.
I weighed 86.6 kilos at 19:13.
I was caught up on my journal at 20:35, but it was too late to work on any projects before supper.
I had a potato with gravy and my last grilled chicken leg while watching season 3, episode 21 of Batman.
Calamity Jan and her mother Frontier Fanny are visiting Shame in prison to tell him that they’ve planned his escape. Jan instructs him to be by the left wall at 17:15. Shame and Jan kiss through the wire and it’s the first time we’ve seen lips meet on this series. The Riddler has come close to kissing his molls, even in the very first episode with Jull St John, but there have always been interruptions. Maybe it was allowed for Shame and Jan to kiss because Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill were really married. So later at the promised time a tank knocks a hole in the wall and Shame runs through it. Jan and Fanny are driving the red tank and they all escape while the guards’ bullets have no effect. They got the tank from Mad Man Otto’s Used Tank Lot. Bruce Wayne and Commissioner Gordon are having fondue in Barbara Gordon’s apartment when the commissioner gets word of the escape. He calls Batman and so Bruce signals the Batcave for the Bat answering machine to be turned on. All Batman usually says is “Yes commissioner?” and “We’ll be right there’ so the machine makes sense. Bruce leaves with Gordon because he says it wouldn’t be appropriate to be alone with Barbara without a chaperone. He’s been alone with women sans chaperone before. In Gordon’s office he is told there is a horse for him in the outer office. But it turns out to be a saw horse with an attached message for Batman. Shame writes that he’s going to rob the Gotham city stage at 20:45 that night and he’ll steal a rock and a roll. Barbara arrives and reads the note just before Batman and Robin leave to feed the clues to the Bat Computer. Shame and his gang are holed up in Gotham’s Central Park stables. Jan has hired two henchmen. One is dressed like a Mexican bandito and his full name is Fernando Ricardo Enrique Dominguez but they just call him Fred. He talks in a condescending upper crust English accent. The other is dressed as an exaggerated version of a Great Plains First Nations chief with a ridiculously long trailing feathered war bonnet that gets caught in closing doors. His name is Chief Standing Pat and he communicates with smoke signals that he makes while puffing a cigar. Shame tries to explain his caper in a clumsy and ineffectual way. Fred says, “Your lucidity is only surpassed by your remarkable command and penchant for gibberish”. Shame thinks it’s a compliment and thanks him. Shame starts kissing Jan but her mother tells him he can’t get closer than two feet until a marriage is arranged. Meanwhile Batman figures out that a rock and a roll are a diamond and a bankroll but he hasn’t solved the clue of the Gotham City Stage. Batgirl calls from Gordon’s office to tell him she’s figured out the stage clue but not the rock and the roll. Batman says, “We obviously need each other”. She gives him a street corner for them to meet then heads out on her Batgirl Cycle. She meets Batman and Robin and tells them the stage is the opera house stage where The Girl of the Golden West is running. Robin says Leonora Sotto Voce the world’s top soprano always wears her 283 karat diamond pendant. Batman says Fortissimo Fra Divolo always carries a roll of $20,000 in cash onstage for good luck. Meanwhile at the Gotham City Opera House, Shame and his gang enter through the stage door and are confronted by the stage doorman, who is 17 but all stage doormen are called “Pop”. That’s apparently true or used to be anyway. Pop is knocked out and Shame and his gang go back stage. Leonora and Fortissimo are arguing onstage about who is the star of the show when Shame and his gang approach them with guns drawn. The singers are robbed and then Batman, Batgirl and Robin arrive. Suddenly two members of Shame’s gang that we’ve never seen before appear. This happens quite often just before a fight scene. The stupidest thing about these fights is that the crooks always stand close together and watch as either a swinging Batman kicks them all over or an object is thrown that knocks them all over even though they all have plenty of time to get out of the way. The gang is defeated but then Jan and Fanny enter with aerosol cans that spray the heroes with Fear Gas. Now Batman, Batgirl and Robin are cowering in terror and begging Shame not to hurt them. Batman grabs Batgirl to use her as a shield. Shame decides to take Batgirl as a hostage. Batman and Robin cling to each other and are glad Shame took the girl. Later, somehow Batman and Robin make it to the Batcave though it doesn’t make sense they could drive the Batmobile in their present emotional state. Alfred gives them the antidote to the fear gas. When they recover, Batman deduces that Shame would be at the Central Park Stables. Shame and his gang leave with Batgirl for part two of their caper but on the way out Fanny is hit on the head by the horseshoe above the door. When Batman and Robin get there they find Fanny and revive her. She says if anything happens to her Batgirl will be killed. This story is continued next time.
Leonora Sotto Voce was played by Dorothy Kirsten, who studied piano as a child. She left school at 16 to work for the Singer Sewing Machine company, while taking singing lessons. She wanted to be a Broadway singer and dancer but became an opera star instead. She was one of the few opera singers that could sing jazz standards as well. She sang on the radio before debuting as an opera singer at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. She sang regularly on the radio with Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Perry Como. She was the first opera star to appear on the cover of Life Magazine. Naming it after her husband she founded the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation to find a cure. Her autobiography was entitled “A Time to Sing”.
March 7, 1995: I worked all day and then hosted my writers open stage
Thirty years ago today
On Tuesday I posed all day at Northern Secondary School. In the evening I hosted my weekly Orgasmic Alphabet Orgy writers open stage in the Art Bar of the Gladstone Hotel.
Thursday, 6 March 2025
Monique van Vooren
Who would suspect that any person
is bald beneath their smart chapeau?
The hat’s their great social salvation
that makes them just like any Joe
Tomorrow I’ll work out the chords and probably upload it to my Christian’s Translations blog, then publish it and look for the next song I’ve missed.
I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice. It stayed in tune and sounded good.
I weighed 87.25 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since February 23.
In the early afternoon I packed up my laundry and headed out to wash it. The snowbank in front of my place has shrunk enough that I can now lock my bike in front of my building without laying it down while I bring the trailer down or take it back up. But my bike kind of looks like it’s humping the bank.
Before lunch I went back out to buy a six-pack of Creemore. It’s now 5 cents short of $20.
I weighed 86.85 kilos at 16:00. I had whole wheat saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of low sugar iced tea.
I took a siesta at 16:30 and woke up at 18:18.
I weighed 87.15 kilos at 18:35. That’s the most I’ve tipped the scales in the evening since February 23.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:45.
I continued to search for generation gap videos but it’s difficult. No one seems to ever film hippies or beatniks interacting with other generations. The films are always focused on each group by itself.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread, with parmesan, a sliced potato and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 3, episode 20 of Batman.
The Penguin, Miss Clean and two of Penguin’s thugs enter the Gotham Mint. He puts the staff to sleep with gas and appears to be stealing wheelbarrows full of money. Miss Clean carries a feather duster and dusts everything she passes. Batman is called and when he and Robin arrive at police headquarters they meet Penguin and his gang in the elevator. They all go into Gordon’s office together. Batman arrests Penguin but learns that Penguin stole nothing from the mint. Penguin says he’ll sue for false arrest but Batman says he still broke into the mint and he’ll arrest him for that unless he drops the lawsuit, so he drops it. Penguin leaves and Batgirl arrives. She says if Penguin didn’t steal anything from the mint maybe he put something in. She says everyone at the mint is still asleep long past the time when Penguin gas would have worn off. Batman, Batgirl and Robin go there. Batman and Batgirl observe the mint money under a microscope. Batgirl says there are bacteria that look like they are of the species somnophilia. Batman says specifically somnophilia lygeria. They say Lygerian sleeping sickness is carried by the Lygerian fruit fly. Penguin planted a culture of the bacteria in the ink used to print the money. The only shipment of money sent out since Penguin’s tampering went to the Gotham National Bank. Batman sends Batgirl there while he and Robin go to the Gotham hospital to get a supply of somnophilia vaccine. But Penguin beats Batman and Robin to the hospital where he is forcing a doctor to vaccinate himself and his crew and then destroys the rest. Batman and Robin arrive but Penguin releases three Lygerian fruit flies and escapes. Batman takes out his Bat fly swatter and kills two of the flies but the third lands on Robin’s nose. It looks like a house fly whereas actual fruit flies are a tenth that size. Batman uses tweezers to capture the fly and he contains it in a capsule. The doctor says the vaccine Penguin destroyed was the last outside of Lygeria. Batman says to order some but the doctor says it will take a day. Meanwhile at the bank Batgirl learns that $1300 of the infected bills has already left the bank with various customers and could be all over Gotham by now. When Batman learns of this he calls Gordon to tell him to broadcast a message to everyone in Gotham not to handle any money. People begin dumping their money on the street to protect themselves. Even two bankrobbers, on hearing the report, return the loot to the bank. Penguin and Miss Clean are on the street each pushing a big vacuum machine to suck up the money. Batgirl arrives but is immediately held and then gassed to sleep. It’s disappointing how easily she tends to be subdued. They just leave her lying on the sidewalk while they continue vacuuming. Bruce Wayne calls the main financiers of the world to warn them against accepting any Gotham money. In Penguin’s hideout they are drenched in cash. He asks Miss Clean what she wants and she says she’s always wanted a little house in the country. Penguin begins looking into buying a little country but Bruce’s warning has preceded him and everyone Penguin calls refuses to accept cash from Gotham. Penguin calls Bruce and tells him to call everyone back or he will release 500 of the flies, but Bruce refuses. Later Penguin and his finks arrive at the bank and find outside Batman, Batgirl, Robin, Gordon and O’Hara asleep on the sidewalk. Penguin lifts O’Hara’s pocket watch but then they all get up to reveal they are fine. The big fight takes place with Batman, Batgirl and Robin against the Penguin and his gang, except for Miss Clean, who holds back. After defeating Penguin, Batman tells him that it was Gotham’s current temperature of 7 degrees that killed all his fruit flies. Also because Penguin took a double dose of vaccine he gets sleeping sickness himself.
Later Gordon learns that Calamity Jan and Frontier Fanny have been visiting Shame in Gotham prison.
Miss Clean was played by Belgian actor Monique Van Vooren, who was fluent in French, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, and Italian. In her native Belgium she was a champion skater and a beauty pageant winner. Her film debut was in Tomorrow is Too Late. She recorded an album in 1958 called Mink in Hi-Fi. She had a nightclub act in which one of the backup dancers was named Ronnie Walken. She suggested it would have more impact if he changed his name to Christopher, and so he did. She was a judge in the 1969 Miss Universe pageant. She co-starred in Flesh For Frankenstein. She was a panelist on To Tell the Truth and Password. She wrote a novel called Night Sanctuary. She was convicted of cashing her dead mother’s social security cheques and sentenced to 200 hours of community service.
March 6, 1995: I stopped eating starchy foods for a month
Thirty years ago today
On Monday I stopped eating starchy foods for the next month. I posed all day at Northern secondary School.
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
Barbara Rush
On Tuesday morning on my Christian’s Translations blog I published “My Sister’s masseurs”, my translation of “La main du masseur” by Serge Gainsbourg. That officially completes my ten year long project of translating all of the songs of Serge Gainsbourg from 1958 to 1990. But there are probably a handful of songs I couldn’t translate because the French lyrics weren’t available so now I’ll go back over the list to see if I can find and translate them. After that there will still be the rest of his crazy novella that I’ve already partly translated.
I weighed 87.15 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since February 24.
Around midday I cleaned the newer warm mist humidifier and found that putting in four cups of vinegar instead of three to soak worked like a dream.
I weighed 87.3 kilos before lunch. That’s the most I’ve tipped the scales in the early afternoon since February 19.
I didn’t have the old humidifier on for most of the day but I filled it up just before going out for a bike ride. It seemed to take a long time to fill. I turned it on but it wasn’t heating up. Then I noticed it was leaking through the vent of the back tank. Water is not supposed to be poured into that tank. I dumped out the tank and mopped up the spillage. That was why it took so long to fill, because it was filling the back tank as well. I’m not really sure why it did that but I dumped out the water, then filled the front tank again and turned it on and everything was fine.
I double checked one more time that the seat level on the new bike is the same as the Raleigh by comparing how my feet touch the floor at the balls of my feet. Because of my humidifier emergency I didn’t get away soon enough for a bike ride downtown. I only rode as far as Ossington and Bloor. With the new higher handlebar and seat levels I’m riding much more comfortably now. I stopped at Freshco where the green grapes are still very cheap and firm and so I bought eight bags.
I weighed 87.1 kilos at 18:21. February 23 was the last time I hulked out that much in the evening.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:33.
I continued to search for videos of adult reactions to hippies in the 60s. I think I’ll type “generation gap” next. Or “Here we come walking down the street / Get the funniest looks from everyone we meet”.
I reviewed the song practice video of my acoustic performance of “Sixteen Tons of Dogma” on September 25 and the take at 28:00 wasn’t bad.
I had a potato with gravy and a chicken leg while watching season 3, episode 19 of Batman.
At a civic luncheon in Commissioner Gordon’s honour, Mayor Linseed arrives to reluctantly tell Gordon he’s fired. He announces that feminist activist Nora Clavicle is the new police commissioner. Nora immediately makes the mayor’s wife Millie Linseed the new police chief. Later Mayor Linseed tells Bruce that his wife forced his decision by refusing to cook or clean until he gave the job to Nora. I saw Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman having lunch by himself in a Chinese restaurant so Linseed could have done that. As mayor I’m sure he also could have afforded to have someone do his laundry. During her first day as commissioner, Nora uses the Batphone one last time to tell Batman the city no longer needs his services and then she cuts the line. Batman and Robin decide to take a Batmobile ride around Gotham anyway. Alfred tells Batman, “We men are counting on you”. Batgirl also takes her Batgirl Cycle out on patrol. Meanwhile Chief Millie fires every man on the police force and replaces each one with a woman. But when Nora is alone with her henchwomen Evelina and Angelina she tells them to proceed with Operation Ransack while she moves forward with Operation Disaster Insurance. She tells her girls to set a trap for Batman, Robin, and Batgirl by committing a crime and so they rob a bank. The manager tries to get the cops on guard to stop the theft but the one in the bank is too busy applying her makeup and the two outside are occupied with swapping recipes. He asks another who says she’s not going to wreck her new Givenchy shoes chasing after some thieves. He calls the emergency police line but the operator tells all cars that there is a sale at Arbech’s. Batman, Robin and Batgirl head for the bank. Batman uses the portable Bat Computer to somehow trace the thieves to a knitting needle warehouse. But when they arrive, Nora jumps out to grab Batgirl and threatens to pierce her jugular unless Batman and Robin surrender. The three heroes are then tied into a Siamese human knot with only their bodies intertwined and no ropes. Supposedly the slightest move will only draw the human knot tighter to crush their bones. While it looks pretty intimate it appears easy to get out of. Batgirl has her right arm around Batman’s neck, Batman has his left arm around her neck, Batgirl’s left arm is under his arm and between Batman’s left knee and Robin’s neck, Batman’s right arm is stretched out to the right side of Robin’s neck where his wrist is reaching around behind Robin’s neck where his fingers join the bent back left hand of Batgirl on the left side of Robin’s neck, Batgirl’s right thigh is on top of Batman’s right thigh but under his left leg where Robin’s left arm is between Batman’s right leg and Batgirl’s right leg but then his forearm is wedged between Batman’s left leg and both of Batgirl’s legs because her left leg is under Batman’s left leg then on top of her own right leg and wedged against Robin’s left shoulder with the toe of her boot against the left side of Robin’s chin, Batman’s left hand is on top of his own left leg but his fingers seem to be caught where his leg meets with Batgirl’s legs. There are all kinds of ways that they could just let go. While they are caught, Nora tells Batman that at sunset she is going to destroy Gotham for the $10 million insurance policy that she took out on the city. She then leaves them to begin the disaster. Outside the warehouse Nora and her cronies unpack and wind hundreds of mechanical mice and then release them to run around Gotham. each one is a time bomb set to go off half an hour after sunset. That gives them time to spread so widely that every building will be destroyed when they explode. Meanwhile Batgirl is getting cramps in her legs but Batman says that’s good because the involuntary muscular contractions in her legs may relieve the tension in Robin’s lower lumbar. Then if Batman wiggles his ears and Robin bends the fourth finger on his left hand, that is the formula for escaping from the Siamese human knot that Batman suddenly just recalled. It works and they escape. They find two police officers standing on the base of a light pole and screaming because they see a mechanical mouse. Batman picks up the mouse and sees that it’s a bomb. They deduce that there must be hundreds of them and of course they can’t grab them all. Robin calls Chief Millie to have her mobilize her forces to catch the mice but she answers the phone while standing in fear on her desk while another officer is on a chair because a mouse is on the floor, then they both faint. It’s pretty ridiculous and insulting to women but my mother was also afraid of mice. Batgirl says you can’t get policewomen to catch mice. Batman gives Batgirl and Robin each a flute and then plays a melody on his own. He tells them each to play that same melody and to split to the east and west parts of Gotham while he takes midtown then to make their way to the docks as they play. The mice somehow respond to the playing and as the trio converges on the docks the mechanical mice all leap into the water to be neutralized. Batman determined that their guidance system was built around high frequency radar and so he selected the precise combination of required notes that would cause the homing mechanisms to zero in on the sound and follow it. But that doesn’t make sense because there is no reason for the mice to have homing mechanisms since their purpose is to wander aimlessly before exploding. They don’t have a home. Then a truck backs up with Nora, Angelina and Evelina tied up in the back and Alfred guarding them with the point of an umbrella. From out of the cab emerges Gordon and O’Hara. Later Gordon gets a call from Penguin who asks if he’s heard of the lethal Lygerian fruit flu and then hangs up.
Nora was played by Barbara Rush who studied at the Pasadena Playhouse. Her film debut was in Molly. She married actor Jeffrey Hunter and they were together for five years. She co-starred in When World’s Collide, Quebec, It Came From Outer Space (for which she won a Golden Globe), The Young Philadelphians, Robin and the Seven Hoods, and Bigger Than Life. On TV she played the mother of The Bionic Woman. She co-starred in the soap opera Flamingo Road. She played Grandma Camden on 7th Heaven.
