I’m a little sad about this: we will probably never see another Valerie Bertinelli.
Valerie Bertinelli was one of the stars of “One Day at a Time”, along with Mackenzie Phillips, Bonnie Franklin and Pat Harrington as “Schneider”.
She did not have large breasts.
There you go. That’s what you probably won’t see ever again: a major television actress with small boobs. She was 15 at the start of the show and was supposed to be a kind of tom-boyish character. In the next season, according to Wikipedia, her character was revised to “be more appealing to a traditional male demographic [citation needed]”. This is how television, contrary to the fundamental purpose of all artistic endeavors, seeks to affirm what you already are: stupid.
I have no end of disgust for media companies that decide that that the illiterate public should tell them how to write or act or direct. You like titillating jokes? Add more and more and more. You like cleavage? Let’s increase cleavage 200%. You like poop jokes? More poop jokes! Say, why don’t you write and create your own sitcom? Oh– you don’t know how? You can’t? You’re too illiterate and clueless to do it? When why are we listening to you?
Valerie Bertinelli married Eddie Van Halen when she was 21. Do you even have to ask? They divorced in 2005, probably long after the marriage had actually failed.
She wasn’t much of an actress but she was very cute. That’s all that’s necessary.
Do a search, I know you want to. Images. There she is: she struggled with weight issues all her life but she seems to have had a few victories. Lately, there are pictures of her looking very svelte in a bikini. But notice the boobs: they look ample. They look generous. They look lavish.
It is easy and cheap to get your breasts augmented nowadays. And it has a clearly measurable impact on profit. Even if you are a very good actress if you are competing for a spot on a tv series or movie with numerous actresses (there are millions of them) with ample bosoms, you will not get to do what Valerie Bertinelli did with her remarkably reasonably sized breasts: star in a tv sitcom (which, let’s face it, is the lowest form of drama there is).
In future, I fully expect that the studio that owns the “One Day at a Time” franchise will hire a digital effects company to go back in time and enhance Valerie Bertinelli’s breasts. It’s inevitable. It will produce more viewers, more profits, more rebroadcasts!
Enhanced. Augmented.
In the meantime, I actually enjoyed the rerun. The characters looked more real then they will ever look again, probably.
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