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brie as Daphne:

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It only lasted for about a year.

I think it was during the first grade.

Patty

and I formed a bond, as if we were an old married couple. Perhaps I met my soul mate, when we were too young to benefit from it?

We were almost always together. I didn’t really understand any reason for the attraction, but we were extremely comfortable together. One day the toughest kid in the school came upon us on a street corner. He seemed disturbed that I was with Patty, and started to hassle me into a fight. I was terrified as he knew ju jitsu, and I had seen him destroy another kid in a fight at school, still punching the other kid in the face even while the opponent was crying!

Amazingly, Patty stepped in between us and somehow defused the situation, knowing just what to say and how to say it.

Somehow my association with Patty suddenly ended, when I became best friends with Billy, though Billy and I were like two girls anyway!

Right! The Panorama theatre

at Nordoff St and Van Nuys Blvd

had a soundproof crying room with speakers for mommies and their babies. Also, I think there was a pizza place and a hobby shop next to the Panorama.

I remember seeing “Forbidden Planet”, “War of the Worlds”, the original “Parent Trap”, and “the Alamo!”

Once invited to sit with the girls. Magna

was the cutest girl in the school, but I thought she had a tough boyfriend, who would knock my head off!

Also, saw the sublimely prefect “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” there. Visited the old neighborhood last year (Arleta — used to be Pacoima). The Hebrew school on Beachy and Osborne is no longer there, but the building still exists. Around 1980 noticed Spanish language movies playing at the Panorama. Last year noticed the Panorama sign was still there.

Finally, saw “The Time Machine” there — going into the future where the Morlocks have taken over!

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Milf bobby-soxing:

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Janet Mason PTA soccer mom!

I think Janet would look really good in a tennis outfit:

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Last month’s mystery photo is Sue Nero:

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brie as Shirley

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Mostly from the LATimes:

Harry Reems, who starred with Linda Lovelace

in the 1972 pornographic film “Deep Throat”

and became a cause celebre in Hollywood after he was convicted on federal obscenity charges related to the movie, has died. He was 65.

Reems died Tuesday at a Salt Lake City veterans hospital.

He arrived on the Miami set of “Deep Throat” as the lighting director but when the man hired to portray the doctor in the film failed to show up, director Gerard Damiano said: “Put on this coat; you’re acting,” Reems told The Times in 2005.

At first he enjoyed the celebrity that accompanied starring in one of the most successful pornographic films of all time.

In 1974 when he was charged along with 10 others with conspiring to distribute “Deep Throat” across state lines.

It marked the first time that the federal government had tried to charge an actor for the results of a film’s distribution.

After he was convicted in 1976, The Times ran an editorial in defense of Reems under the headline “The Anti-Freedom Conspiracy” and pointed out that noted constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz had volunteered to handle Reems’ legal appeal.

“If this conviction stands, no actor and no writer anywhere in the country will be safe from prosecution,” Dershowitz said, according to the editorial.

Hollywood’s A-list also took note. Celebrities such as Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Gregory Peck helped raise funds to pay Reems’ legal bills.

Reems was granted a new trial but the charges were eventually dropped.

The damage to his personal life had been done. While waiting to go on trial, “the heavy drinking began in Memphis,” Reems said in 2005 in The Times, and he became a “2-quart-a-day vodka drinker” who at one time lived “in the back of an Albertsons’ dumpster in Malibu.”

He didn’t stop drinking until the late 1980s, when he ended up in Park City, Utah, and entered a 12-step alcohol recovery program.

Once sober, he sold real estate.

The son of a small-time bookie and a housewife, he was born Herbert Streicher on Aug. 27, 1947, in New York City. At 18, he joined the Marines but received a hardship leave when his father became terminally ill.

Returning to New York in 1967, he acted in experimental and Off-Off-Broadway productions but turned to adult films when he couldn’t pay his bills, according to a 2011 New York magazine article titled “The Afterlife of a Porn Star.”

He went on to appear in more than 100 hard-core films that included 1973’s “The Devil in Miss Jones.”

[Georgina Spelvin

had the starring role.]

Reems also was interviewed in the 2005 documentary “Inside Deep Throat.”

In the late 1970s, he moved to Los Angeles and secured a role as a coach in “Grease” but was let go because filmmakers feared his notoriety would jeopardize the box office in the South, according to the New York profile.

“Acting was my true love,” Reems told the magazine, “and I buried that possibility by going into adult films.”

Survivors include his wife, Jeanne, whom he married in 1990, and a brother.

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