The Latest Numbers

I have now posted pictures of 319 different women on this blog, although I've posted far more pictures. :-)

I'm going into retrospective mode for awhile, posting new pictures (new, as in they haven't been shown here before) of women I've already featured while I consider new subjects to feature later on. Thanks for your support - you know who you are! :-D

Actress Dawn Wells

A couple of weeks ago I featured Tina Louise, the actress who played Ginger Grant on "Gilligan's Island." Today, in the spirit of equal time, I present the artist formerly known as Mary Ann Summers. :-)



Dawn Wells had appeared in a few television shows in the early sixties before accepting the role that made her famous in "Gilligan's Island." As the Kansas farm girl Mary Ann, she provided a down-to-earth sweetness in contrast to the Hollywood glamour of Tina Louise's Ginger.

She went on to have a very successful stage career in the seventies and the eighties, but she has remained a keeper of the "Gilligan's Island" flame, defending the sitcom against criticism and hosting a 2001 TV special on the series that was part biopic, part documentary.

In the forty-odd years that "Gilligan's Island" has been in syndication, male fans have always divided over whom they liked better - Ginger or Mary Ann. Where do I come down on that controversial question? Oh ho, you're not going to get an answer out of me on that! :-D Civil wars have been started over more trivial issues.


Fun fact: Wells, born and raised in Reno, Nevada, represented Nevada at the 1960 Miss America pageant. Today, she's more famous than Lynda Lee Mead, the woman who actually won that year. (I looked it up.)

New Links

Two new links appear on my blog, both for sites founded by sixties fashion model Linda Morand. The first is Ms, Morand's own site, and the second is to "MinMadMod60s," a page ostensibly devoted to fashion models of the sixties but includes pictures and information of models from other decades. If you're a Baby Boomer who had a crush on a model back in the days of mini skirts - or if you just appreciate beautiful women (that's why this blog is here!), then these pages are for you.

One more entry in the current A-Z cycle, coming up. :-)

TV personality Meredith Vieira

Meredith Vieira has been a woman of many hats.

A former correspondent on CBS's "60 Minutes," the renowned broadcaster later went on to host the syndicated version of the game show "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire," sort of following Mike Wallace's career path in reverse. But she was also the moderator of the ABC women's talk show "The View" for nine years, and then in 2006 replaced Katie Couric as a co-host of NBC's "Today."

When she started at "Today," Vieira vowed to put the "broad" back in broadcasting. :-D

She's also been a contributing anchor to "Dateline NBC."