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[RealChic1999]

Joher Speaks! is updated.

Also, I was very surprised to find an e-mail from Tannis Vallely (Janice) in my mailbox, since she was the last person he kept in touch with, and that was 10 years ago. I'm glad that my sites are bringing people together.

[YourDensity]

I recently saw an episode on rerun of Law & Order, and Simone (Kristen Hadjee) was on it as a VERY icy wife of a man accused of murder. She really has had alot of work since Head of the Class. She's been in a few Disney movies, Made for TV movies on Lifetime, I've seen her in a few commercials as well. And that's just what I've seen. She seems to have worked fairly consistently.

And Dennis & Eric have Keenan & Kel and everything else. It's nice to see current success stories.

Though I loved the earlier Mr. Moore eppies, the addition of Alex & Vickie was great. Especially the note passing episode, where Vickie & Eric are flirting and Alex & Simone are flirting and they all end up running into each other at a museum. Dennis & Arvid are debating chicken vs. egg.

Mr. Moore sees everyone passing notes and reads them all out loud. Vickie to Eric. Eric to Vickie, Simone to Alex, Simone to Eric, Alex to Vickie.. etc.. and then the last two pieces of paper read: Chicken.... and Egg...

Just cracked me up.

[YourDensity]

I can't decide. Grease is probably my least favorite because they didn't have alot of singing-dancing (plus, the movie's so good, I can't get into the HoTC kids doing it). I loved Little Shop because of the "Sha doo... Audrey II...." sung by the doo-wop girls. I also love that musical, and thought Maria did great with "Somewhere that's Green."

However! Hair had such a good psychodelic vibe.. and when they danced to "Aquarius" and then ended with their fingers in the peace signs.. the middle schooler I was got chills. Not to mention the entire bit with Claude going to VietNam.. and they sang "Let the Sun Shine." So many good things. Plus Simone was in that one! She sang "Black Boys/White Boys" with Vickie, Darlene, Sarah, TJ and some other girl.

The musical episodes rocked. The best part of the Grease eppie was the hilarious bit with The Shepard Bride with Alan & that HUGE Blonde chick. Hee hee.

[RealChic1999]

I recently saw an episode on rerun of Law & Order, and Simone (Kristen Hadjee) was on it as a VERY icy wife of a man accused of murder. She really has had alot of work since Head of the Class. She's been in a few Disney movies, Made for TV movies on Lifetime, I've seen her in a few commercials as well. And that's just what I've seen. She seems to have worked fairly consistently.

It's Khrystyne Haje (I know, that's a "finger twister" on the typewriter). I saw the "Law and Order" episode also, and she did a damn good job. She did look older, though. She was also in a Tylenol cold medicine commercial. Leslie Bega also has a pretty steady acting career, a new movie she's in called "Dating Games People Play" is supposed to be coming out. Robin Givens also has a decent career...she reappeared on "One on One" last week, and I heard at sitcomsonline.com that she's going to be in a play in Milwaukee.

As for joher365.com, there will be no more "Joher Speaks" or anything like that (at least not on my part) since I resigned from that and no longer speak to Joher. However, I still have a decent communication with Tannis Vallely.

The best part of the Grease eppie was the hilarious bit with The Shepard Bride with Alan & that HUGE Blonde chick.

I have that one on tape, and I don't remember that scene. But speaking of tapes, if anyone is interested in purchasing 3 HOTC tapes I made from when it aired on Nick at Nite, let me know. Also, I am interested in getting the ones from Season 1 I missed on NaN, and the ones from Seasons 3 (like the "Little Shop" ones) and 4 that never aired on NaN. E-mail me.

Lastly, I still think it sucks a lot that NaN took HOTC off the air. I hope that it gets picked up somewhere...and also, e-mail netaudr@abc.com and tell them that you want a reunion!!

Edited by RealChic1999, Apr 5, 2004 @ 5:27 PM.

[Jazper]

I always had an insane fascination with Leslie Bega. Ever since I saw her on an episode of Highway to Heaven when I was like, 8. I loved seeing her on The Sopranos a season or two ago, too.

[RealChic1999]

She was on that too?! Man, Leslie's been everywhere!

Here's a link to a transcript of a chat she had on the Sopranos site:

Leslie Bega

For some weird reason, I had to highlight it as if it were a spoiler. It showed up normally before.

[RealChic1999]

Hey all. Bumping this up because we need all the support we can get for this:

Petition to get HOTC on DVD/VHS

[espie]

I haven't seen HOTC for ages, but I remember liking it (even if I had a little trouble keeping some of the characters' names straight). My all time favorite episode is the one where Eric just up and goes to Paris without telling anyone. Actually, I liked this idea so much that I actually *did* it in 1991... bought a plane ticket and "ran away" to Paris without a word to anybody, because I thought it sounded like such a cool thing to do. (I did, however, have enough money to get home again!)

[silentbob]

Is this show currently being aired on any network?

[RealChic1999]

No, silentbob, and that's what sucks. We are trying to get it on VHS/DVD, and I am currently working on a proposal to send to ABC (the original network of the show) and VH1 (for the pop culture perspective) to do a reunion.

This show gets no fair treatment at all. I did catch Leslie Bega on an ep of CSI that aired Friday night (she only appeared in one scene and had one line, though!) and Kimberly Russell in "Prison of Secrets," some Lifetime flick that aired yesterday. She played a prison inmate that was trying to help Stephanie Zimbalist's character expose the sexual assaults that were happening to the female inmates. I couldn't say anything about her acting, though, since I was running in and out of the house the whole time the movie aired, and only caught her in scenes where she had no lines. But I can say that she looked like what Sarah would look like if her life went into a downward spiral if she didn't get in the IHP.

Khrystyne Haje also appeared in a sci-fli flick Saturday called "Morella," but I couldn't catch that.

(I got bored one day and just Zap'd 2 It to find listings of the HOTC cast in other shows, showing how much HOTC withdrawal I have.)

[bigmonster]

Khrystyne Haje is on Law & Order all the time. Once she was actually a suspect, some completely repressed matriarch. Once she was making out in an elevator half-naked. Guess which of her appearances I like better?

She's on some commercial too, I forget which.

[Jazper]

Wasn't she on some constantly running teeth commercial at one point?

[RealChic1999]

She was currently in a Tylenol cold medicine commercial.

ETA: Also, back in the early 90's, around the time HOTC was coming to an end, Khrystyne was one of "People's Most Beautiful" and had her own Pantene commercials (kinda like Kelly Ripa and Patricia Heaton have now, except Khrys's were more glam and started with "Khrystyne Haje knows the meaning of good hair" or something like that). Though her career (along with Ms. Givens and Leslie) is decent (and I know about her Silicon Valley investment), it's weird how she used to be the "It" Girl of her time with her own commercials, and now she's a background character and a nameless face in commercials.

Edited by RealChic1999, May 5, 2004 @ 4:46 PM.

[RealChic1999]

Another bump up, because I found this on Ebay:
"Little Shop Til You Drop" Script

I am definitely watching that script...and if I have enough money at the last minute, I'll bid on it. (I'm so broke!)

Also, I put my HOTC tapes on Ebay:
The tapes

[RealChic1999]

Requoting this:

The musical episodes rocked. The best part of the Grease eppie was the hilarious bit with The Shepard Bride with Alan & that HUGE Blonde chick. Hee hee.

No wonder I didn't remember seeing that in the "Grease" ep, YourDensity...that scene was from the "Little Shop" ep. I just got the script for the latter, which I purchased on Ebay, yesterday, and it's all in there.

After seeing that script, I am dying to get my hands on that episode!

ETA: I just looked up the actress that played that "huge" blonde chick, and that was the girl that played Rhonda on "Saved by the Bell"! Remember that big tomboyish chick with parents in prison, who had the hugest crush on Zack? ("He has one cute behind!" she said, when he was running from her.)

ETA: Joher has a new hairstyle that looks ri.dic.u.lous.
The first picture in this link

Edited by RealChic1999, Jun 2, 2004 @ 1:57 PM.

[RealChic1999]

Bumping this up for...

More Robin Givens Drama.

On Celebrity Justice Saturday night, they were talking about how Robin has another problem...

CJ mentioned the movies she was in (and showed a clip from Boomerang), mentioned how HOTC made her a "household name" (they showed the clip of her from the pilot telling Arvid how Lori and Barry broke up and...), and mentioned the show Sparks (a sitcom about a black legal firm) that she was on from '96-'98. The show also mentioned how she was most infamous for her relationship with Mike Tyson.

The issue is that she owes the talent agency she was a client of during her time on Sparks over $60,000, and was supposed to pay that back in installments of $2500 monthly. But since she never paid it, she now owes the agency over $100,000.

They also showed scenes of her during her court case for her hit and almost run. She looked very tired, and had her hair in these cutesy pigtails (I don't know why she'd wear pigtails in court, but whatever).

Does it ever end with her? It's sad.

[RealChic1999]

Bumping this up:

Leslie Bega (Maria) now has an official website:

http://www.lesliebega.us/

(Some of the pictures on the main page are artfully nude...so take caution if you are at work or the library.)

Also, Tannis Vallely (Janice) has a personal photo page:

http://www.pbase.com/groovytv

There is a picture of her and her husband on it.

[TudorQueen]

I'm glad they covered HotC on the third edition of "I Love the 80's" on VH1. I share commentator Joel Stein's adoration of Simone. Khrystyne Haje looked like something out of a Botticelli painting!

Word! I adored Simone - she and Alan were my favorite characters - and thought Khrystyne Haje was truly lovely, though more pre-Raphaelite than Botticelli.

[RealChic1999]

Word! I adored Simone...

Simone, IMO, realistically looked and carried herself like someone I'd see in an ecclectic honors class. (For instance, to me Arvid was such a stereotype.) She was pretty, but didn't realize it, bookish, and romantic in a literary sense. Too bad there aren't many high school girls like that nowadays. I'd rather see "Annie Hall" style than girls having their butts and guts hanging out. Ick.

[Toastie]

[Anybody know when/if this is out on DVD?]

Not yet! The best website to check on any TV Show's move to DVD is the following: TVShowsOnDVD.com

[RealChic1999]

Also at that site, you can vote for that and any other shows you want to see on DVD.

[Nnif4]

I haven't seen an episode of HOTC probably since they first aired, and then I was about 13 and didn't know what the hell was going on anyway. Anyway, recently someone jogged my memory about the "Hair" HOTC ep, but we couldn't remember one thing that happened, like who was playing which "Hair" charactre, if there was controversy over the nude scene, etc. Would someone be kind enough to give the shortest and fastest recap in history of this episode if you recall anything? I'd be eternally grateful.

[mnmya]

I haven't seen an episode of HOTC probably since they first aired, and then I was about 13 and didn't know what the hell was going on anyway. Anyway, recently someone jogged my memory about the "Hair" HOTC ep, but we couldn't remember one thing that happened, like who was playing which "Hair" charactre, if there was controversy over the nude scene, etc.

The main controversy I remember is that one of the teachers or parents (I am sorry it has been so long) didn't want the production of Hair to happen. She was upset at the topic of dodging the Vietnam draft-apparently her son back in the 60's had asked her if he should dodge Vietnam or go and she told him to go. He had died in the war.

Help me out if I am wrong or if there is more to the story. I was probably about 12 when I last saw it!!

[Phenobarbara]

I remember that Vietnam/Hair episode. IIRC, one of the other teachers kept giving the students a ton of extra homework which cut into their Hair rehearsal. She started giving them more and more and it became obvious she was getting out of control. Finally, Mr. Moore confronts the teacher and asks her what her deal is and why she seems to be deliberately keeping the students away from Hair. Her reasoning was what mnmya said above. Oh, and I seem to remember the woman's name being something like "Beth Western" and Mr. Moore promising not to make any motel jokes at her expense.

Edited by Phenobarbara, Feb 2, 2006 @ 4:42 PM.

[fernsehen]

I remember the teacher as being played by Elaine Stritch, but IMDb's guest cast listings for HotC are incomplete. I don't remember the character's name, but could it have been Weston? If the actress wasn't Stritch, it was someone roughly of her age and type of voice. I seriously doubt it was Bea Arthur.

And I always thought Khrystyne Haje would have become a star. It doesn't seem to have worked out that way.

Edited by fernsehen, Feb 2, 2006 @ 8:03 PM.

[lovinbob]

I always thought Khrystyne Haje would have become a star. It doesn't seem to have worked out that way.

Just caught her on a repeat of L& O: SVU. She is still stunning. Seems a little thinner than she did back in the day.

I lurved Brian Robbins. I recall (as a 12-year-old) wanting to run my fingers through the back of his curly mullet.