Tuesday, August 19, 2008
An Open Letter To Ricky Schroeder
Dear Ricky,
Or, should I call you Rick now?
Just wondering. I don't want you to take offense or anything (and I'm guessing you won't - it was many years ago), but I am just wondering WHY OH WHY us subscribers to 'Tiger Beat', 'Teen Beat' and 'BOP' always had to look at your face on our favorite magazines?
Don't get me wrong. There was nothing at all wrong with your face. It was round, smooth, and cute (maybe even now...a little bit). But the thing is, the big problem here, I was just kinda tired of looking at it all the time. The fact that I never got tired of the faces of John Stamos and Duran Duran and Rick Springfield and Michael Damien and the guy from 'Grease 2' (what was his name? Maxwell something...) means that your face time cost ME money - i.e. less beauty viewed by me per square inch of teen mag. And those mags costs me bunches - I was probably paying 10 cents a page, or maybe 1 cent a gander (maybe you are better at math than I am and can do me the favor of figuring out the numbers).
I am not saying you weren't a fine kid actor in that 'Silver Spoons' show and that made for TV movie I dug up the trailer for (above, thanks to youtube user tp8051). And for whatever else you did, I know there were some other movies and things. I'm just saying, why did we have to look at you in EVERY ISSUE?? Just curious, who were your fans?? Who put up your poster when Kajagoogoo was on the other side of it, faces and hairdos to the wall?
I hope I have not been hurtful here, Rick. I honestly did enjoy a few seasons of '24' and thought you did fine. And you are better looking than most guys I ever see walking in the Wal-Mart, well above average I'd say.
Okay, Just had to get that off my chest. If you ever want to come down to Mississippi and hang out with me, you are totally welcome to (just thought I'd add that to be polite).
Sincerely,
80sMom
p.s. I did like you a hell of a lot better than Ralph Macchio ;-)
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15 comments:
Lol! That's funny :0)
Long live the 80's!!
It wasn't so funny at the time...poor Ricky, he didn't belong there :-(
Ricky Schroeder and The Easy Rider!
He was always a strange looking one to me. Seemed almost fake, like not a real person.
I was sooooo in love with the Grease2 guy. C-O-O-L R-I-D-E-R! What a horrendous actor though.
The guy from Grease 2 was Maxwell Caulfield. He was married to Hayley Mills who was much older! He was nice to look at. I have to agree on Ricky . . . when you are buying the magazine because you want the maximum amount of Simon, Nick, John, Sting and the like you don't really want to look at little Ricky Schroeder.
He was a damn fine child actor. The Champ still makes me cry. And what about the movie where he's the only one to survive a car crash out in a jungle somewhere.
I was shocked when out of the blue he was in Lonesome Dove as a young man. Not a shabby comeback!
oooh, head bitch, a Ricky Schroeder fan!!! haha!
yes, traci, that's it. Maxwell Caulfield. What happened to his career? I guess the bad singing in Grease 2 did him in. But I actually used to get stomach butterflies when I watched him in that movie.
That is hilarious. I forgot about those 80's magazines.
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I never had a poster of him on my wall but I LOVED(and think I still do)Ricky Schroeder....and have ever since first seeing him in 'The Champ'
The Grease 2 guy was in Empire Records. He played a sleezeball rockstar.
What?! I loooooved Ricky Schroeder. I was so going to marry him when I was in 2nd grade! :)
Oh, he's the reason I started watching NYPD Blue. He was ok as a kid...but as an adult--oh my!
Hey, sorry to step on your toes, Ricky fans (and, of course, sorry to you Ricky, you know I mean no harm).
I think the key phrase here is what beckykay said : 'in second grade'. That is the appropriate time to have a crush on little Ricky. Not at age 13-17, the target audience of the teen rags. That's my point, the only point I tried to make.
As I said, Rick(y), you are a fine looking dude and a decent actor - I take no issue with you. I just take issue with the teen mags.
Let's hang sometime!
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