{"id":25323,"date":"2014-04-17T00:48:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=25323"},"modified":"2014-04-17T00:48:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T04:48:13","slug":"throwback-thursday-carol-kane-in-an-80s-sailor-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/throwback-thursday-carol-kane-in-an-80s-sailor-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Carol Kane in an ’80s Sailor Top"},"content":{"rendered":"

We wore some seriously oversized tops<\/a> in the 1980s. Giant t-shirts, giant vests<\/a>, giant button-front shirts<\/a>, giant sweatshirts, giant jackets<\/a>. Size mattered!<\/p>\n

Some time ago, I caught a rerun of Cheers<\/em> that brought back fond memories of the too-big look. Cheers<\/em> is great for any kind of ’80s style spotting, of course, but guest star Carol Kane’s oversized sailor top in the 1984 episode “A Ditch in Time<\/a>” is a real classic. It’s huge!<\/p>\n

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Even the collar is ginormous.<\/p>\n

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Carol played a mental-hospital acquaintance of Diane’s who stalks bartender Sam Malone.<\/p>\n

Carol Kane has so many other amazing credits, and you can’t miss her distinctive, high-pitched voice whenever she’s on screen. When she appeared on Cheers<\/em>, she was riding high after winning Emmys in 1982 and 1983<\/a> for playing Simka<\/a>, the wife of Andy Kaufman<\/a>‘s Latka Gravas, on the show Taxi<\/em>. Previously, she’d been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1975 movie Hester Street<\/em><\/a>. She also played Allison Portchnik, the first wife of Woody Allen’s Alvy Singer character, in 1977’s Annie Hall<\/em>.\u00a0 “No, that was wonderful! I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype<\/a>,” she says sarcastically after Alvy tries to pick her up with an unfortunate spiel that starts, “You’re like a New York Jewish, left-wing, liberal intellectual …” If you’re a little younger, you might remember her as Grandmama Addams <\/a>from 1993’s Addams Family Values<\/em>. Just last year, she had a cameo on Girls<\/em><\/a>. But her most important role was as the gal with the punch line in The!Best!Movie!Scene!Ever!, which happens to appear in 1979’s The Muppet Movie<\/em>. My dad and I were so thrilled by this scene and repeated it so much that I can STILL recite it from memory.\u00a0 The majority of the scene is played by three great actors: Madeline Kahn<\/a>, Telly Savalas<\/a> and Kermit the Frog. Click the photo of Carol Kane below to hopefully see the clip.
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I’m so sick of important YouTube clips going dead! Especially my Family Guy<\/em> ones. My blog is filled with embedded Family Guy<\/em> clips that have been taken off YouTube. In case the Muppet Movie<\/em> clip is removed, here’s a backup<\/a>. In case both clips are removed, here’s the dialogue. The scene takes place in El Sleezo Cafe.<\/p>\n

Madeline Kahn, sultry:<\/strong> Hello, sailor, buy me a drink?<\/em>
\nKermit:<\/strong> Well, you see, I’m not a sailor, I’m a frog.<\/em>
\nMadeline:<\/strong> Oh, cut the small talk and buy me a drink.<\/em>
\nKermit:<\/strong> I don’t even know you.<\/em>
\n Tough-guy Telly Savalas:<\/strong> Hey. Did you make a move with my girl? <\/em>
\nKermit:<\/strong> No, sir. <\/em>
\nMadeline:<\/strong> He did too. He touched me. <\/em>
\nTelly:<\/strong> Ugh. Wash up, you’ll get warts.<\/em>
\n Kermit:<\/strong> That’s a myth. <\/em>
\nTelly:<\/strong> Yeah, but she’s my “myth”! <\/em>
\nKermit:<\/strong> No, no, myth, myth! <\/em>
\nCarol Kane:<\/strong> Yeth?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why this didn’t win every<\/em> award including the Nobel Prize for Frog Dialogue is beyond me! Anyway, I’m pleased to report that 30 years ago, MrB sat next to Carol Kane at a New Year’s Eve dinner — he thinks it was Dec. 31, 1984 — and found her to be very nice. I’m displeased to report that MrB neglected to shout, “Myth! Myth!” at her to see if she instinctively said, “Yeth???” What a missed opportunity! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We wore some seriously oversized tops in the 1980s. Giant t-shirts, giant vests, giant button-front shirts, giant sweatshirts, giant jackets. Size mattered! Some time ago, I caught a rerun of Cheers that brought back fond memories of the too-big look. Cheers is great for any kind of ’80s style spotting, of course, but guest star…<\/p>\n

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