Fussin' and Feudin' Alert: Tanya's olive branch to Glen rejected

Publication: National Examiner

Date: 28 Nov. 2011

 

Tanya Tucker and Glen Campbell used to date back when Reagan was president, but it did not end well. (Neither did the Reagan presidency, but that's a story for another day.)  In any case, the hatchet is not yet buried and the low rent Examiner wants us to know about it. Here are the headlines.

• Tanya begs ex-love Glen
• "Let's make up!"
• "No way" - he says

Fussin' and Feudin' Alert™: More country catfights.

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 17 Oct. 2011

This is the continuation of the Meanest Story nominee that said Miss Dolly Parton and Miss Loretta Lynn are not seeing eye to eye.

The other alleged feuds are more generational.

Chely Wright and Reba McIntire are not getting along.

And welcome to gossip hell, Gretchen Wilson! The young woman who had her first big hit in 2004 She is supposed to be having trouble with Tanya Tucker, whose first hit was recorded in 1972, which makes this Hey Old Timer Gossip.

She looks like she's in pain. I'm in pain just looking at that outfit.

Problems With Plastic Alert: Plastic surgery gone wrong!

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 26 Sept. 2011

The low rent Examiner goes with a story about plastic surgery snafus, most of them on women older than I am, some who were famous before I graduated high school. There are pictures of Loni Anderson, Linda Evans (pictured above), Priscilla Presley, Courtney Love and Tanya Tucker, all of them looking a bit too much like Mickey Rourke.

Courtney Love is the odd person out on this list. Everyone else was famous in the 1960s or 1970s, while Love's fame started in the 1990s. Many from the target demographic for the low rent Examiner won't even know who she is.

Problems With Plastic Alert™:bad surgery anthology

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 27 September 2010

The low rent Examiner spends most of the cover on pictures of women who look awful after plastic surgery. The women on the cover are Mary Tyler Moore, Tanya Tucker, Joan Kennedy, Heather Locklear and Loni Anderson.

Hey Old Timer Gossip:What's wrong with these stars?

Publication:Globe
Date: 9 August 2010

The Globe goes with the vague headline "What's wrong with these stars?" and then shows pictures of five people, four of whom had claims to fame before I left high school (which is a long, long time ago) and one whose first claim to fame comes the summer after I leave high school.

Some of the things wrong with these folks might count as Not Long 4 This World alerts, but they didn't come out and say so on the cover, so it doesn't count.


Technically, Suzanne Somers does not count as Hey Old Timer Gossip. She had a few uncredited roles in movies before I got my high school diploma, but her first noted role in American Graffiti is released two months after I say good bye and good riddance to Alameda High School.

Tanya Tucker is the youngest person on this list and younger than I am, but her first hit Delta Dawn is recorded in 1972 when she is 13, and since I was still in high school, she qualifies as Hey Old Timer Gossip.

Jane Fonda was working when I was in grade school, so she certainly qualifies.

Mary Tyler Moore has a credit before I entered kindergarten as the legs and voice of Sam on Richard Diamond, so she definitely counts.

And old scummy Pat Boone, whose earliest hit came before I was born and whose career was forwarded by the blatantly racist recording industry of the 1950s, qualifies as Hey Old Timer Gossip in anybody's book.

I hope most of these people are okay.