Helen Lawson

You bet your ass she is.

The best of La Lawson

DLers used to be Anne Wells and now they're Helen Lawson.

Love her

What am I? Chopped liver?

Aw, thanks fellas. Wish you were here with me sharing my mid-day happy hour. Live it up and ride some cocks!

Best character ever

She's so well known for her film and TV work, many have forgotten she was one of the three queens of Broadway: Ethel, Mary and Helen.

"No, no, knees together, Miss Lawson! Remember what happened last time!"

And that's me, baby, remember?

I ain't anybody's mascot!

DL doesn't got for booze and pills.

Since when?

Grungy cunt!

I love Helen, but she's like cilantro: a bracing dash now and then can bring a dish to life, but you don't want to sit down and eat a bowlful of her. Everything in moderation. (And some people don't care for cilantro at all.)

Sorry, but I never got the Vivian Vance joke, so that was pretty much DOA for me... and then played out, endlessly, over and over and over again.

Susan Hayward was a great dramatic actress and brought the gritty role of Helen Lawson to life as only she could.

She's the Datalounge Guiding spirit, but she's not the Datalounge mascot. That position forever belongs to the almiqui.

Datalounge even once sold a polo shirt with his miniature image where an alligator should be. (I am not making that up.)

I disagree. They should have cast a real butch as Helen.

The almiqui:

Judy Garland was fired and then Susan was hired. I think they hired Judy for the publicity knowing that she couldn't do it. Sad for Judy but Susan apparently demanded that Fox pay Judy was she was promised in her contract. Susan was a class act.

R2 That clip was a real classic. Author Jacqueline Susann based the character of Helen Lawson on Ethel Merman and apparently disliked her a great deal.

Hasn't it been suggested that Susann and Merman had a fling?

They should have given the role to Dolores Gray. She could have done her own singing.

Look. They drummed you right outta Hollywood! So ya come crawlin' back to the datalounge. Well, datalounge doesn't go for booze and dope. Now you get outta my way, I got a man waitin' for me.

R11 It doesn't go for booze and dope, either.

R22 That's a switch from the fags you're usually stuck with!

[R24] At least I never married one!

I loved our last Helen thread, where we were regaled with tales of her working on children's TV shows.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

Helen loved her own shrine.

Fuck Sesame Street!

Best line from that thread ^

[quote]Hey Henson, I've got something warm and furry you can put your hand up!

Helen Lawson raped my best friend Corey Haim. For $25 million I will make a documentary with proof.

Helen Lawson touched me.....in the morning

R19 Bitch "hated" me but loved to eat my pussy.

Not only was she a uniquely gifted actress, but Helen was also way ahead of her time in recognizing injustice and advocating for a more diverse, inclusive Hollywood. Her pitch fell on deaf ears during the 1950s, but the zeitgeist caught up with her twenty years later when the self-produced "Guess Who's Coming in Helen?" was the hit of Times Square.

I still dab a little bit of Helenesque on my wrists from time to time

Give me a fountain pen and not one of those lousy ballpoints! Helen Lawson - to the DL born.

I use it to kill maggots in my cooch

Not mean enough

The Debbie Reynolds-Shelley Winters epic "What's the Matter with Helen?" was based on Lawson's early years in Hollywood.

Helen, of course, co-starred under the made up name "Michael MacLiammoir."