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October 25, 2004

Polls: Mixed With Edge to Bush Kim Richards and Why She's Still Hot (With Some Poll News)

CNNGallupUSAToday: Bush by 5 with likelies 51-46, by 2 among registered.

Zogby: In ten Battleground states, Bush holds most 2000 Bush states, and picks up a couple of Gore states (New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin), but may lose Colorado. OTOH, Most polls seem to show Bush ahead in Colorado, and Kerry is scaling back his advertising there.

Washington Post Tracking poll: Kerry ahead 49-48.

But most importantly of all, the one poll that's consistently predicted the winner since 1956 -- the Weekly Reader poll of school-aged children, not yet young enough to vote. They're decisively in favor of Bush:

Hundreds of thousands of school students ranging from first grade through to 12th grade (aged six to 18) gave the incumbent president the nod in a poll published Monday by Connecticut-based Weekly Reader magazine.

More than 60 percent opted for Bush over Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites), who only won one state, Maryland, in the underage mock election.

It sounds kinda silly, polling underage children who don't know much about anything about their political preferences. Obviously, they're just going on looks and charisma and personality and gut.

But then, that's what a lot of adults vote on, too. And what we find appealing as children doesn't change that much as we grow older. When I was nine, I would have killed or died to be with Kim Richards from Hello, Larry and of course Tuff Turf.* (Misspellings in titles are always a sign of a quality motion picture.)

I don't know that that's changed very much since then.

kimr4.jpg
Gosh, Ace, you're so smart. Explain to me again
why Andrew Sullivan is a bitchy little ninny.

Thanks to GregS for the last tip.


* Well, okay, I think she's probably most famous for Escape from Witch Mountain too, but she was just a little kid.

Update: Was sure I'd already have a dozen guys telling me how much they still loved Kim Richards. Either it was just me, or I really have gotten too old.

You know who else is hot? Donna Reed. Yuhp, there. I said it.

Random Celebrity Connection Update: Bud Tugley (if that is his real name) tells me in a comment that Kim Richards Paris Hilton's aunt.

Well, look, I guess there were some very rich guys watching Hello, Larry and Tuff Turf when they were growing up, too. I guess one of them was able to execute his life's ambition and bag her.

Damnit.

Kinda makes Dan Snyder look like a piker, doesn't it?

And Yet Another: Sharkman sends some quality cheesecake.

Important Announcement: Kim Richards is the new good-polling-news cowbell.

Please note this for your records.


posted by Ace at 06:22 PM
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Boo bop a lee bop! My Baby!

Posted by: See-Dub on October 25, 2004 06:32 PM

ACE- The theory on polling the kids is as follows. Kids reflect what they hear their parents say in the privacy of their home. Regardless of what they tell the pollsters, or even friends, the kids hear what Mommy and Daddy say while watching TV or talking at the dinner table. One thing is for sure, whatever the reason, the track record is pretty solid!

Posted by: Greg Schreiber on October 25, 2004 06:36 PM

I'm with Greg on this - the kids are heavily influenced by what they hear at home. Many many people are private about their vote and won't discuss it outside the family or participate in polls. But out of the mouths of babes...

Posted by: Elisa on October 25, 2004 06:46 PM

Yeah Ace, but she was *hottest* in Escape from Witch Mountain.

Whoa. . . Scott Ritter moment there. . . step away from the keyboard. . .

Cheers,
Dave

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on October 25, 2004 07:00 PM

Ace, don't fret, I had a crush on Kim Richards too, especially in Escape From Witch Mountain (but she's older than me, so it's ok). There's something about witches, from Samantha Stevens to the Charmed chicks...

Posted by: Steve on October 25, 2004 07:08 PM

Yes, she's older than me too, so I guess I could have had a crush on her, but I think I was too young at the time to like girls.

For me, it was Hello, Larry. Especially the episode where the blind guy wanted to feel her boobs because that's how he "sees" the world.

I'll tell ya, I wore dark glasses and toted a tap-stick for a month after that. Seemed like a plan.

Posted by: ace on October 25, 2004 07:10 PM

In Escape from Witch Mountain, didn't Kim have all the cool powers -- psychokinesis for starters -- whereas the brother could only play a fuckin' flute or something?

They keep doing that-- making the chick the cool one. The Wonder Twins-- well, everyone knows about that. Jana can transform herself into a T-Rex, and Zan can, well, turn himself into a puddle of lukewarm water. Which is kind of a cool party trick, but it doesn't really help against the likes of Solomon Grundy.

The tradition continues in Spy Kids, wherein the chick can do practically everything, while the brother seems skilled only at the proper procedure for disposing of fudge and pastries.


Posted by: ace on October 25, 2004 07:17 PM

So where is she now?

I wonder if the Bushies are gonna start touting the Weekly Reader in their campaign literature.

Posted by: Iblis on October 25, 2004 07:18 PM

I'm with Ace. Man, I had the hots for her, in a way that only a 9-year old can. Was'nt she in Land of the Lost too? Grew up quite nicely.

Posted by: Bud Tugley on October 25, 2004 07:22 PM

No, that was a completely different girl, and nowhere near as hot as Kim Richards.

Had a sort of pig-like Judd Nelson nose, too.

Posted by: ace on October 25, 2004 07:26 PM

Well, I assumed you meant she was playing Holly.

If you meant she was playing a Sleestack or did the voice of Grumpy, then I don't know.

Posted by: ace on October 25, 2004 07:26 PM

Yeah, ace, looks like you had a fogey detector set up there and me and ol' Dave fell for it.

Kim richards is way hotter than Clara Bow, man. But I don't know about Lily Langtry.

Posted by: See-Dubya on October 25, 2004 07:29 PM

She's Lilian-Gish-hot.

Posted by: ace on October 25, 2004 07:30 PM

I stand corrected. Go check IMDB...she's also Paris Hilton's Aunt (?) Gofiggur.

Posted by: Bud Tugley on October 25, 2004 07:31 PM

Ace: Whet your appetite here: http://www.hissandpop.com/celebrities/r/kimrichards/photos/015.jpg

Posted by: Sharkman on October 25, 2004 07:38 PM

uuhhhhhhh

thanks.

Posted by: ace on October 25, 2004 07:48 PM

Ace:

Typo. Don't squeeze the Sharman.

Posted by: see-Dubya on October 25, 2004 08:08 PM

I loved her in Assault on Precinct 13. Nobody gets shot holding an ice cream cone like Kim.

Posted by: Jeff G on October 25, 2004 08:17 PM

My chance to provide exclusive insight, and Greg beats me to it. And Elisa. OK, maybe it wasn't quite as exclusive as I thought.

But the Weekly Reader theory matchs what I thought I figured out for myself - in retrospect, I probably heard it somewhere. Who knows, maybe I heard it from my parents over the dinner table when I was a wee lad and they were remarking on the two in a row record.

Posted by: Phil on October 25, 2004 08:33 PM

Ace. Buddy. All may not be lost. Read that bio again.

1) Just turned 40.
2) Twice divorced.
3) Lives with Mom.

Sounds like she's one step away from cruising the Hombre room at the local Best Western.

Go for it buddy.

Like a Viking.

Posted by: Bud Tugley on October 25, 2004 09:11 PM

I'm with you on Donna Reed. I fell completely in love with her after watching "It's a Wonderful Life" for the first time.

Posted by: Slubgob on October 25, 2004 09:26 PM

yeah, but Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity, yeeeoww!

Posted by: Dave in Texas on October 25, 2004 10:18 PM

Damn Ace! You and I are simpatico. I had a think for Kim Richards too! And I could've sworn she was on "Land of the Lost". (I still have nightmares of the Sleestacks.)

Posted by: Huck on October 25, 2004 10:43 PM

Ok, "thing", not "think". That's how excited I am about this! I thought it was just me!

Posted by: huck on October 25, 2004 10:44 PM

I always dug Lauren Bacall in "To Have and Have Not", but hey that's just me.

Posted by: Joe R. the Unabrewer on October 25, 2004 10:44 PM

I used to crush on Ms. Richards a long time ago .I thought I was over it. Damn you, Ace, for messing up my dreams for tonight.

Posted by: Laddy on October 25, 2004 10:49 PM

Uh, you do realize Donna Reed's dead, right?

Posted by: LargeBill on October 25, 2004 10:59 PM

First crush: Diana Rigg, aka Mrs. Peal of the Avengers. She's not dead, but she's looking as good as can be expected of a '60s heart-throb. I have an understanding wife who bought me for Christmas all the DVDs. I don't think I mentioned that crush to her, though.

Posted by: steve poling on October 25, 2004 11:16 PM

The Land of The Lost girl was Kathy Coleman, according to imdb.

Posted by: CaptainNed on October 25, 2004 11:16 PM

Hey kids (meaning those younger than Kim), the hottest she ever was was in the movie "Tuff Turf" (really, really bad movie but in the classic good, cult way; it also starred James Spader).... and yes that double "was" was intended... damn, did it again!

Kim also looked great in a couple of ads for Kodak as the "daughter" to "father" James Garner and "mother" Mariette Hartley... Yeah, I've stalking the girl since 1982 (the year she turned legal)

Posted by: JFH on October 25, 2004 11:33 PM

Sadly, since she's a bit younger than me, I cannot in good conscience, like Ace, admit to having been a "fan". Well, that and the fact that I've never watched anything she ever did.

But she is a dish, I'll grant you that.

Posted by: Patton on October 26, 2004 01:02 AM

I actually miss Helen Slater from "The Legend of Billie Jean". I'm showing my age there too.

Posted by: Sgt Dan on October 26, 2004 02:38 AM
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