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Friday, January 6, 2012

Kristy McNichol Makes It Official

Posted by on Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:49 PM

She's a lesbian (and she's been with the same lady for two decades!)

Congrats, better late than never, etc. (And thank you, Towleroad.)

 

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Soupytwist 1
No wonder that sexing Matt Dillon was so traumatic for her in 'Little Darlings'!
Posted by Soupytwist http://twitter.com/katherinesmith on January 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM
TVDinner 2
@1: Sexing? Is this a newfangled term the kids these days are using? Soupytwist, I am relying on you to explain this in monosyllabic language. Woman's Day and Family Circle haven't covered it yet.
Posted by TVDinner http:// on January 6, 2012 at 5:01 PM
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn 3
I guess she had it calculated that the number of straight people in 2011 who know who Kristy McNichol is was small enough to risk the damage to the long right tail end of her popularity.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn on January 6, 2012 at 5:07 PM
gloomy gus 4
All I wanted was for her to move next door to me so we could be best friends plus I could marry her dimmer brother Jimmy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uExvukG5c…
Posted by gloomy gus on January 6, 2012 at 5:09 PM
5
Gus, there was an incredibly bad early 80's horror movie called Night Warning which starred Jimmy McNichol, and involved him running around shirtless a lot. It also had a gay subplot, as I remember.
Posted by Joe Glibmoron on January 6, 2012 at 5:21 PM
6
well all knew this since she was about ten years old , those doubting her rug muncher cred were in complete denial . mostly this was about getting some press , some thing she hasn't had in a long long time .
Posted by whatsbeckgottadowithit on January 6, 2012 at 5:22 PM
Reverse Polarity 7
LOL!!! @ gus @4.

OMG, I hadn't thought of poor Jimmy in years. Decades. I, too, briefly had a crush on him about 30 years ago.

Fuck, I'm old.
Posted by Reverse Polarity on January 6, 2012 at 5:23 PM
Lilliable 8
What's her former beard, Leif Garrett, up to these days? I also remember a publicity stunt involving her having a crush on Donny Osmond.

(I'm just as old as the rest of you.)
Posted by Lilliable on January 6, 2012 at 5:47 PM
gloomy gus 9
So long as Dan rules this roost we need never be ashamed of our ages. Joe @5, I will go google the fuck out of that movie. Thank youl.
Posted by gloomy gus on January 6, 2012 at 5:58 PM
Max Solomon 10
next you'll tell me Jody Foster is gay.
Posted by Max Solomon on January 6, 2012 at 6:01 PM
MarkyMark 11
Shocker! Next you'll be telling me that her Family co-star Meredith Baxter is gay - or that designer Isaac Mizrahi got married - to a man!

Posted by MarkyMark on January 6, 2012 at 6:07 PM
rob! 12
+1 for antediluvian Jimmy McNichol boners.
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on January 6, 2012 at 6:10 PM
13
Gus, the YouTube channel Confessions of a Horror Baby has a pretty good rundown on it, including clips from the movie. The channel is run by a college kid who combines his love of Sondheim musicals and slasher flicks in interesting ways.
Posted by Joe Glibmoron on January 6, 2012 at 6:32 PM
bedipped 14
Oh, Buddy. I recently saw her Pirates of Penzance flick "The Pirate Movie," costarring that guy from Blue Lagoon, and it was worth the 29 year wait. Her appearance in a musical should've tipped me off. I hope she's happy and still has money.
Posted by bedipped on January 6, 2012 at 6:38 PM
stinkbug 15
I wish someone had told me years ago that White Dog got a Criterion dvd release.
Posted by stinkbug on January 6, 2012 at 7:23 PM
16
Finally Kristy and I can be open about our love.
Posted by snapdragon on January 6, 2012 at 8:48 PM
Fred Casely 17
15-year-old me would have traded all the shirtless Jimmy McNichol movies in the world for a second season of this.
Posted by Fred Casely on January 6, 2012 at 9:12 PM
Fred Casely 18
Make that 10-year-old me. Forgot I was on the Internet.
Posted by Fred Casely on January 6, 2012 at 9:22 PM
seandr 19
Wow. I had completely forgotten that I know who Kristy McNichol is.

@17: That link made me yearn for the wonder and simplicity of the 70's.
Posted by seandr on January 6, 2012 at 9:31 PM
gloomy gus 20
@13, holy mackerel he really showed off how terrible that movie was. Dang. Thank you, though. Any of us with vestigial feelings for Jimmy must never click this link:
http://worldofwonder.net/2009/12/29/Then…
Posted by gloomy gus on January 6, 2012 at 9:38 PM
doloresdaphne 21
I think I need to watch little darlings again. Kristy Nichol, Tautum O'Neil and Krista Errickson made me feel funny in unfamiliar ways with those 70's haircuts and sexually charged scenes. when I watched it as a pre-pubescent.

I just watched the scene where Kristy chats up some guy, after she notices he's wearing a dark blue bandanna in his right pocket and raises her eyebrow.

Posted by doloresdaphne on January 6, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Soupytwist 22
@2 - "Sexing" means performing sex acts. This has been your Slang: Kids Today! lesson.
Posted by Soupytwist http://twitter.com/katherinesmith on January 6, 2012 at 11:16 PM
rob! 23
@17: Ha! Oh yeah. Jimmy McNichol was a bubblegum crush, but Vincent Van Patten gave me the vapors. (And Alex Rocco was/is a hot daddy.)
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on January 7, 2012 at 12:40 AM
Allyn 24
I've been in love with her since I saw The Pirate Movie when I was seven.
Posted by Allyn on January 7, 2012 at 6:31 AM
25
This is a larf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYlAuXKWN…

This is my New Year's resolution:
I'll stop acting like a tomboy and be sweet,
I'll have Donny Osmond kneeling at my feet,
And to make the other fellas more aware,
I resolve to borrow Farrah Fawcett's hair.
Posted by cgd on January 7, 2012 at 6:46 AM
Catalina Vel-DuRay 26
I always thought she was a dreary looking thing. It's nice to see she blossomed as an adult, and is apparently happy.
Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay http://www.danlangdon.com on January 7, 2012 at 7:35 AM
TheMisanthrope 27
This really eroticizes the sploshing scene in Little Darlings, which TCM showed on Underground last night.
Posted by TheMisanthrope on January 7, 2012 at 3:55 PM

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