What I Want In A Wife article from Cosmopolitan (April 1972) - least vile man on this list?

https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/wife1.jpg?w=590&h=807

https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/wife2.jpg?w=590&h=807

https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/wife3.jpg?w=590&h=807

'Nice legs and big bristols'

Most vile would be a tougher call tbh

Ian McKellen is the chicken vote here btw (even if the correct one)

Michael Whittaker is pretty much the only one who, A) doesn't comes off as a sexist creep, and B) sounds like he could be talking about a real woman. John Peel's answer is kinda funny too in that his standards are way lower than with most of these bozos.

Oliver Reed is probably the most vile, it's pretty incredible how much sexism and homophobia he manages to fit in such a short answer.

tbf yeah

Pitman brings the PoMo with "What a daft question". Lichfield gets it right too. Peel narrowly misses with the "not aggressively sexy - just identifiably female" closer. All the others are either misogynistic (Ollie Reed, no surprise there), answering the question using their public persona (Lance Percival, Savile), or possibly trying to deflect the question with a joke (Lyell - Venus de Milo, she doesn't have any arms DOYOUSEE!?!?).

what a LAD he was though! what a legend! turned up drunk to every film set!! xp

john pitman is the most common sense. michael whittaker seems like the most likely to have had a healthy relationship. joachim stein not bad but honesty and mystery a tricky combo

Lichfield seems a good choice for best yeah

peel married a child irl so not surprised to hear of low standards

Jack Wild has the right idea imo.

I like the Earl of Lichfield's answer, but I think you need a certain amount of money to have everything happen to you "by chance", it's probably not an option for me.

everyone was very concerned about women's libbers in 72, eh

Fish was never married and has no children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fish_(fashion_designer)

John Peel's basically described Sheila, so hey.

They were probably an item by then

I like the Earl of Lichfield's answer, but I think you need a certain amount of money to have everything happen to you "by chance", it's probably not an option for me.

― soref, Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:48 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:( you're probably right, revealing my weakness for moneyed flaneur types here

I can't read the scans well enough on Zing so I voted John Hurt because he just died.

lol

hahahha

:/

ahaha

impossible to say how seriously this was being taken by any of them but reeds is the best obv

Based on his statement, Georgie Fame goes beyond Reed in the 'my interior monologue is Sid James going "Fwooooooooaaarr!" non-stop' stakes.

Georgie Fame's wife jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge iirc.

Sad Bristols :/

peel's child bride also a suicide, fact fans

a lot of these seem somewhat contradictory: honesty and love + distance and mystery; an independent woman who doesn't believe in this women's lib nonsense (ok, I know we still have some of those and they still get held up by Gamergating alt-righters as The Good Ones Not These SJW Monsters)

also I really, really hate "bird" (but not as much as "chick", thanks Jack Wild, or "dollies", thanks Johnnie Silvo, or argh yes "bristols")

I've known a few 'bull dykes', they were all lovely.

Sidney Shipton's is quite terrifying.

Simon Oates' answer isn't offensive.

lol that in 1970s britain 'becomes a baron on marrying' was a d-list celeb category

Roger Collins (hairdresser from French of London): "So far there's always been something not quite right."

I can take a guess.

David Broome didn't realise he wasn't supposed to give a normal answer

I want business cards that say "Show Jumper"

Anyhow, Where-Aren't-They-Now with these characters has become my latest hobby - I cannot stop being fascinated by the way certain people just fall off the rolls of history

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/predator-turned-prodigal-son-john-bentley-profile-1574976.html

He has, he hopes, finally settled down. After two further marriages, he is now living with a "bohemian Chelsea girl", and proudly presents a photograph of their 10-month-old daughter, Delilah. "I only go to local pubs now," he says. "I gave up my membership of Harry's Bar 10 years ago."

one assumes all of four of John's wives were naturally happy, and of course, beautiful.

while they remained his wives youd imagine it was the latter but not the former

how small a girl is weightlifter Brian Strange talking about?

under 322 kg, for sure http://marcolympics.org/jeux/1976/summer/lifting_r.php

Brian Patten's is confusing. What "statements"?

I genuinely had no idea Gyles Brandreth was a thing as far back as 1972. I sort of assumed he didn't exist before Countdown.

John Pitman seems reasonably unvile. Weird how a fashion designer wouldn't want a trendy wife (also, "trendy" is such a horrible 70s word). Imagine Britain producing two notable (ish) people called Michael Fish though.

re: Patten, I think he means statements about what people want in a wife. he seems very meta

yall are going pretty easy on whittaker's "maturity - that doesn't mean age"

code for "i want a college girl who will worship my great intellect"

Next poll: knockers vs bristols.

is there a u.s. tradition of calling them clevelands or something possibly

Isn't the Clifton Suspension bridge just outside Bristol. Cf Georgie Fame's wife, also the repeated use of the term throughout thread.
Is it rhyming slang with a missing 2nd word or something?

City

Of those not mentioned, Tom Nicholls isn't so bad.

Bristol Cities = titties

Nice one Cyril.

haha wow

also peter wyngarde is still alive?!?

It appears so.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0N6c-6qICVI/URQa0T2le8I/AAAAAAAAWMU/iv3K3U54Dp8/s1600/The+Champions+-+Episode+02+-+The+Invisible+Man.avi_snapshot_46.35_%5B2013.02.07_20.53.51%5D.jpg

peter wyngarde has the best facial expressions

more than a little vile,

In 1970, Wyngarde recorded an album for RCA Victor entitled simply Peter Wyngarde, featuring a single, "La Ronde De L'Amour"/"The Way I Cry Over You". The album is a collection of spoken word/musical arrangements produced by Vic Smith and Hubert Thomas Valverde. A promo single of the track "Rape" (entitled "Peter Wyngarde Commits Rape") was also issued in 1970.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY26l5SAxJs

eeek, ewww & yuck

jeez judge much

running spreads of naked Burt Reynolds and stuff.

Huh, this was actually the same issue, April 1972.

https://img1.etsystatic.com/028/0/6504358/il_570xN.614482607_op9t.jpg

(xp) I have the album, a fine album it is too.

Nope, this is from the second ever issue of Cosmo UK, I suspect

http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/more/a15293/first-ever-cosmo-issue/

Quiz: Could You Be President

Among the most quaint ideas from 1972, the idea a woman could be elected president.

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0060/4882/products/COSMOPOLITAN_3179_1024x1024.jpg?v=1344173123

'Catchable Bachelors'

Ah, right, that makes sense.

"Mister Germaine Greer", aka Paul du Feu.

https://solidgoldcreativity.com/2011/08/26/who-on-earth-is-paul-du-feu-phenomenal-man/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3320728/Country-notebook-drunken-ex-husband.html

I thought Cosmopolitan was more liberated than this feature would indicate. Was that a later development?

― Stevolende, Sunday, January 29, 2017 4:30 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these attitudes were mildly progressive in 1972, it was just that bad

Somehow I had basically missed the existence of Oliver Reed until this thread. Watched the Carson clip with Shelley Winters last night. Wow, what a piece of work.

― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:38 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you've been missing out on this horrible 70s autobiography title:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/dc/b2/96/dcb2964b1821050fbf1617c7729b9e76.jpg

don't think I've ever seen a bad photo of Oliver Reed

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ps9PpILba70/VqSBwD53WOI/AAAAAAAAGoU/hppSk4-1n-o/s1600/oliver_reed_tweed_pig_sweater.JPG

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01390/oliver_reed_best_1390199c.jpg

http://cfile223.uf.daum.net/R400x0/216EFD42558681D60861A0

No idea who that Max de Trense is but hes a bit of orright.

counterpoint xp

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PAlacrwn-BM/hqdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9_hBnSkQZCQ/hqdefault.jpg
http://media.npr.org/assets/artslife/arts/2010/03/hellraisers/reed3-df136dccd00fff35e2bfbda60a680bfa1b727ff0-s300-c85.jpg

ok, add "taken pre-1980" to the end of that

fair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbfvaWcQ9uo

I remember watching this at the time and, along with a lot of other people it seems, finding myself rushing to stuff a video in the VCR to try to record it.

Jimmy Saville - "women? I have no idea. maybe a car?"
hmmm....

HERMAN'S HERMITS STILL BEING A THING IN 1972

you've been missing out on this horrible 70s autobiography title

lol, thank you for that

(becomes a hermit on marrying)

SIDNEY SHIPTON
(Chairman: Zionist Federation):

Firstly she must be prepared to be associated with me as a founder of Men's Lib ... She should be ... not more intelligent than me.

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landslide

^^^voted for reed

"Nice legs and big bristols!" says the guy who then married the Marchioness of Londonderry.

oliver reed among others playing to female question-asker obv

ie how can i make her the most uncomfortable & still answer the question

(gods truth just redact oliver's answer & everything that comes out of his mouth & vote on the photo)

benny hill & that au pair fella eeeeuuughhh barfbag plz

It's not obvious that the question-asker is female? Also I think there's some normalisation here - the 1970s were just a different world.

https://myspace.com/guineaworms/music/song/oliver-reed-20332963-20134148

Oliver says the woman must "like to dominated"...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=alGnWiFurys

I'm not sure Benny Hill would address another man as "dear heart"

shirley percival

Benny Hill probably would use "dear heart" with either sex, it's a (possibly affected) local dialect thing.

interesting that Pitman wins this vote when his implied misogyny is laid on much thicker than some of the others

yeah wtf that isn't remotely the best answer

"Nice legs and big bristols!" says the guy who then married the Marchioness of Londonderry.

(Googles)
(notes manner and location of death)
(winces)

interesting that Pitman wins this vote when his implied misogyny is laid on much thicker than some of the others

? I just found him self-critical, tbh. "no one that good'd go out with the likes of me anyway".

I think, having spent far too much time on this, I like Tim Nicholls' answer the best. All I can find on him are several videos of the BBC1 signoffs from the eighties.

for reasons i never discovered -- possibly distaste for his comedy stylings, possibly some anecdote not passed down -- my dad *detested* lance percival

did not know the child bride and sexual abuse stuff re: Peel, ugh

"Teenage Kicks" definitely gonna hit different the next time I hear it.