gidget

gidget is probably one of my secret pleasures. very few people, i mean of my age, know who she is. she started as a young girl in southern california. as she learned to surf, and this was the 50's when girls didn't surf, her father - a screenwriter - became intrigued. eventually writing a book. this book is about a girl named gidget, obviously based on his daughter. the book soon became a movie with sandra dee, spawning two sequels, and a tv show with sally field.

i love them all. my first exposure was watching the tv show late at night on nick at nite. sally field as gidget. she was such friends with her father. i was staying with mine at the time. we were not such great friends. then when nick at nite stopped playing it. i went to google. i found out there were movies. blockbuster i went. fell in love with the movie too. eventually i realized that i should just buy the dvd. i went to find it, and found the two disc set of all of the movies. what a score! bought it right then. i've even rented the tv show from netflix. one dvd at a time. so painful! but after a recent binge of gidget, i looked closer at the box. "based on a novel by frederick kohner". i knew it was originally a book, but i never thought about owning it. i immediately went online and bought the book.

after submersion in gidget culture for a week now, i have to say she's amazing! something that i intend to get my daughter hooked on. something that sits on my shelf until she's bored and is looking for something, anything. i know that she'll find it and love it!