Happy 44th Birthday Leif Garrett: Confess - you had a crush on him!!

[LynneSin]

(actually I had a crush on Shaun Cassidy)

[jandrok]

1. No, I must admit that I never had a crush on him.

Now Marie Osmond on the other hand......hoo boy, what a HOTTIE!

[BuelahWitch]

2. I was an Osmond fan too

But Donny's :hi:

[jandrok]

5. They were my first concert experience.

1977, I believe. I was all of 13 years old. I went with my first girlfriend. Held hands with her in the back of her Dad's RV on the way back home. Just a magical night all the way around.

I remember drooling over Marie. She was the bee's knees.

[devilgrrl]

3. I never had a crush on him. In fact, I always thought he was a git.

:shrug:

[Brewman_Jax]

4. He's 44?

he's not much older than me. Now, I feel old. :P

[kmla]

6. Nope - had a crush on Kristy McNichol.

She was dreamy....

*sigh*

[MN ChimpH8R]

14. Oh yeah! her and Valerie Bertinelli

[ghostsofgiants]

7. For me to have had a crush on him, two requirements must be met...

1) I'd have to be into guys.
2) I'd have to know who the shit he is.

Neither of those requirements have been met.

[Left Is Write]

19. You never heard of Leif Garrett?

Your youth betrays you!

He was a big bubble-gum pop star/teen idol in the 70s.

[ghostsofgiants]

20. I've heard the name before...

I just don't know why, haha.

[RebelOne]

21. I was around in the 70s and I never heard of him either. n/t

[WillParkinson]

8. Crush? On HIM? Hell no!

I had a crush on ....



Him.

[Aristus]

10. Ike Eisenmann.

Whatever happened to him? I only remember his name because I was totally in love with Kim Richards, the girl who played his sister in "Escape From Witch Mountain".

He doesn't even turn up on any of those "Where are they now?" specials. He's gone completely off the radar.

[WillParkinson]

11. He's still been doing some stuff....

He had something called "The Blair Witch Mountain Project". Didn't see it. Looked it up.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381920/

Which also had his "sister" in it.

[Texasgal]

9. HA!!

Me too Lynnesin!

I had a HUGE crush on both!!

Do you remember that magazine called " The beat"? They used to have big fold out posters of them all of the time!

[gollygee]

12. Nope, mine was Shaun Cassidy too

:D

[noonwitch]

13. I loved Donny Osmond

I didn't really care for Leif or Shaun.

[Book Lover]

15. You bet I did; Shaun Cassidy, too

Actually, Parker Stevenson was the cuter one, now that I think back on it...

[Left Is Write]

17. Yes! I just said the same thing.

Of the two Hardy Boys, Parker Stevenson was definitely preferable to me. Major crush on him.

[Book Lover]

18. Yeah, with those cute eyes

And you *know* he was the smarter one :-)

[Left Is Write]

16. I never had a crush on Leif Garrett. I didn't care much for him at all.

I had a minor little crush on Shaun Cassidy, but my big Hardy Boys crush was on Parker Stevenson.

[LostinVA]

22. Ooogly

[Chovexani]

23. He's before my time

But his fandom is fucking scary. Did you hear about what happened with them a few years ago? This is one of my favorite crazy fandom stories.


YOU'RE THINKING, LEIF GARRETT? YOU'RE thinking, late '70s? For one brief moment, Leif Garrett was the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and 98 Degrees all rolled into one pretty little toy boy with a blond shag and skintight pants. An adorably androgynous gold mine, he was the quintessential teen idol. But by 1980, his bubble-gum bubble had burst, and he disappeared.

That is, until January 1999, when VH1 first aired his life story in a phenomenally popular Behind the Music. It was a tale that had it all -- idoldom at the way too tender age of 14, a career-ending car crash that left a best friend in a wheelchair, an excess of drugs of all sorts, culminating in an addiction to heroin, and, most notoriously, a bizarre on-camera reunion with the man he'd left paralyzed 20 years ago. The show became a ratings juggernaut, airing in heavy rotation for over a year.

It also set off a whole new wave of Leifmania. Old fans re-emerged, as devoted as ever. New fans found themselves inexplicably drawn to this sexy yet troubled man. And this time the fever took hold on the Internet, as besotted women popped their computer cherries in search of the God of the Once Glorious Locks. The fever spread to fans across the country and every conceivable economic circumstance -- from an ex­Playboy Bunny to a hardcore riot grrrl, from a Park Avenue princess to an ultra-feminist dockworker. Their idol worship might have made for an innocent story of feminine fawning, but it escalated into a tragicomic odyssey, an interactive soap opera of warring Web sites, giddy cross-country road trips and existential epiphanies.

Today, no one can explain how it all happened. It just did. Most have no answer when you ask, "Why Leif?" They laugh along with you, "I don't know! There are so many people more famous than him!" The one thing everyone agrees on is that it changed their lives forever. In the words of one still-amazed follower, "All of us, every single one of us, have found healing through this except Leif."

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/35/features-gardner.php

Dude, read the rest of it, the crazy will blow your mind.