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Post by mullauna on Sept 28, 2018 15:26:51 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_SmithAnyone remember her? The thinking floating around that she would have grown up to be a U.S. diplomat or politician is pretty out there. As Samantha's mother noted in an interview, Samantha went from one week where she stated she wanted to be a tutu and tights clad ballerina. She had never taken a ballet lesson. [Edited to fix a mess-up]
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Post by James G on Sept 28, 2018 18:15:16 GMT
Samantha Smith would have played no role in the future of domestic politics or world relations post her moment in the sun if she had lived, as far as I can foresee anyway.
Moreover, I don't mean this in an offensive way, but I find the talk of her clothing and semi-sexualisation of her figure, being that she was a child, unsettling. This is an alternate history website and I don't think this is necessary when discussing a person and especially a child.
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Post by mullauna on Sept 28, 2018 19:43:56 GMT
fixed. I didn't intend to be creepy. Samantha is described as "gawky" in a newspaper review of her TV series Lime Street.
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Post by lordroel on Sept 28, 2018 19:48:57 GMT
fixed. I didn't intend to be creepy. Samantha is described as "gawky" in a newspaper review of her TV series Lime Street. Thanks for the fix. Think i have to agrea with James, do not think she would be special when she grows up, the Cold War would be over by the time she would be 18 years old. |
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Post by mullauna on Sept 28, 2018 20:38:23 GMT
David Tenner of SHWI and AH Dot Com said Lime Street would fail even with Samantha (and the critics pretty much unanimously agreed she was the best thing in it) and she'd fade into obscurity except for "where are they now?" pieces in the press.
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Post by futurist on Oct 4, 2018 0:12:13 GMT
fixed. I didn't intend to be creepy. Samantha is described as "gawky" in a newspaper review of her TV series Lime Street. Thanks for the fix. Think i have to agrea with James, do not think she would be special when she grows up, the Cold War would be over by the time she would be 18 years old. She might experience a return to fame starting from 2014 due to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, though. |
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Post by mullauna on Oct 4, 2018 0:52:04 GMT
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Post by lordroel on Oct 4, 2018 2:47:45 GMT
mullauna, posting only a link does not explain what you mean with a post.
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Post by mullauna on Oct 4, 2018 3:32:39 GMT
lordroel I meant that Sarah York is a likely trajectory for Samantha Smith in the ATL - living in obscurity and forgotten except by Cold War and 1980s buffs.
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Post by lordroel on Oct 4, 2018 3:38:07 GMT
lordroel I meant that Sarah York is a likely trajectory for Samantha Smith in the ATL - living in obscurity and forgotten except by Cold War and 1980s buffs. A, well that is a good comparison. |
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Post by futurist on Oct 4, 2018 21:25:50 GMT
lordroel I meant that Sarah York is a likely trajectory for Samantha Smith in the ATL - living in obscurity and forgotten except by Cold War and 1980s buffs. A, well that is a good comparison. One would think that Smith would have been more cosmopolitan than York, no? |
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