PART ONE: Robin Lamont of GODSPELL (1973) Talk w/Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com 

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THANKS Paul! Pure luck and the loveliness of the greatest DAY BY DAY veteran!

She's so humble about that aspect of her admiration. Add me to the list. Thanks for watching.

It's a gift to the universe.

Thank YOU Ben, she's a treasure.

Same here pal. Watched Godspell couple of weeks ago and remembered the crush I had with Robin in the 80s when I watched the movie, jeje. Great, charming movie by the way. Loved to see the good ol New York and the towers. Cheers

@@cyberpolo1152 Cheers to you!

I concur.

i.e. 13th-century England (St. Richard of Chichester). Isn't that also kind of wonderful?

Thanks a lot! Very nice.

She's a treasure. Thanks for watching.

I was surprised to see Lynne Thigpen, who's lived in my head for decades as "the female James Earl Jones" for her commanding voice, as a young ingenue in Godspell.

Thanks for the kind words, TC.

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I think she was tremendously appealing and beautiful in the movie. But - thanks be to God - she did not "turn me on", so I was able to really "get it" with her playing in the movie. Most of the songs in which I see divine purpose (the work of the Holy Spirit) are from men, with women the hormones (mine and theirs) nearly always get in the way. I don't know for sure if I should apologise or congratulate, but with Robin (though she IS an attractive woman), what came through to me most was the untainted spirituality, beauty, purity, joy and innoncene of it. Just as it was meant to be. So her singing "Day by Day" is a wonderful, truly spiritual thing for me, and it makes me feel very close to her, I must say. The Holy Spirit was with her, whether she realised it or not.

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Thanks Scott!

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If people actually followed his teaching it might but right now…

Try listening to the preaching and teaching of Wm. Paul Young and C. Baxter Kruger. There IS a movement building, led by the Holy Spirit and men like Wm. Paul Young, Brad Jersak (spelled?), and more.

What rubbish.You don't need songs or some fake so called religious books to ever know God.

@@chetyoubetya8565 First comment I read. Exact same arguments that took me back to 1973.

Agreed, when she looks at him (Him), we in the audience can, through the Holy Spirit, discern something that the Holy Spirit himself imbued into the song and its singing.

Author and attorney, yes.

She doesn't look that bad how old are you

There are many levels of spirituality ... we all must seek our own, with our inspirations. I don't know how you could do that work the number of times she did it without creating divinity. Thanks for watching.

It's a great comment, and John, and one that for example might apply to Robert Powell or Jim Caviezel, who both played Jesus. Powell had a "complex" situation for years after, perhaps through to today, as he did sort of get it while doing it, but also wanted to keep working aftewards and not be type-cast. The Polish actor Piotr Adamczyk played his compatriot Pope John Paul II in 2 movies and really seemed to be like him - a problem for the actor who was keen to play comedy roles, and for example to pursue crude humour from time to time. In each case, the actors are doing a job, which takes a long time (with re-shoots) and is hard, at times tedious work. It would be hard (though surely not impossible) to acquire, maintain and retain for longer periods spirituality on that basis, even if we do seem to see itwhen Robin looks at Victor as they sing "Day by Day". But then we are the audience, and we see (and "see") what they don't! The beloved Holy Spirit is enigmatic (as Jesus told us) and active, but for Him the life-versus-art boundary is very blurred. But of course He wants to inject God's meaning and love and truth and mercy; and inspires artists in that direction. But the beneficiaries may or may not be participants in the film-making (who may not even realise the transcendance they are achieving). It is entirely possible that Schwartz in his play at least (even David Greene in the movie) wanted to parody and play games with The New Testament, but of course the Spirit will NOT permit that, at least not in a piece of art that helps God work His purpose out. This is after all a movie in which Jesus and Disciples are clowns who naturally do zany and silly things, as well as various 1970s-type things. It would be easy for it to achieve nothing much at all... But what is the overall impression? For millions of us divine, moving, thrilling, a source of joy and religious inspiration. People turn to Jesus, and stay with Jesus, because of it. It may well be that Shakespeare was reached by the Holy Spirit too, even though his plays are not very overtly religious. But still, in Henry V he wrote: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene! (the Holy Spirit can take the form of fire, and if we ascend the brightest heaven we transcend into divinity) "But pardon, and gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object: can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France? or may we cram within this wooden "O" the very casques rhat did affright the air at Agincourt? (interesting that Shakespeare recognised that actors might also be spirits who COULD be raised - and of course the raiser of artistic spirits is the Holy Spirit "O, pardon! since a crooked figure may attest in little place a million; and let us, ciphers to this great accompt, on your imaginary forces work" The actors in "Godspell" were - at minimum - ciphers (numbers) in the great accompt (account), and they were pretty good at working on our imaginary forces. Through the Holy Spirit, Christianity benefited, new people became Christians out in the real world. But not necessarily those who "put on that play"

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@@patuberTV Thanks for being so amazing as to hunt down and assemble this at all! Very well done! Every since the movie piece or video on that, with those eyes of hers staring at Victor at the very start, she's owned me, by the way ;) And the backstory of her "anonymous yet massive" fame - wow. WTG.

@@Bill_Woo Yeah the the single was credited to "Godspell" and not her and peaked at 13 on the Hot 100! Appreciate the compliment.

As someone who is so afraid of heights that I had to close my eyes during that segment, I can tell you that the terror of being in that situation is exactly how Robin describes it. What you consider embellished is the perception of those who have lived through their trauma.

@@patuberTV - I was a bit disappointed with the edit at that spot and wondered if she may have complained about not being credited on the single. Rightfully so as that would be unheard of today.

Really..? I had no idea!

@@beckyenglish4783 her Sesame Street schedule conflicted with the movie filming schedule so she couldn’t make it. I’m sure children’s TV wasn’t where she planned on being but she’s made a major difference in generations of people’s lives

Don’t be ridiculous! Gods Pell celebrates Jesus. Where do you people get such nonsense?!

@@nedhill1242 Oh, IDK, maybe because it depicts Jesus as a superhero clown who get crucified on a chain link fence at a junk yard? If that's not mocking Jesus, then what is?

@@jamesgeis It was the 1970s. It’s like a hippie version of Jesus Christ superstar. The guy that wrote it did it as a masters thesis in grad school. He got the part about them being clowns from a book he read. Think about clowns back in the day. The fool the jester. It’s a hippie version a early 1970s version of the passion of Christ or Jesus Christ superstar. We can’t look at these things from today’s modern perspective. You have to put it in the context and understand the times that it was written and performed. Remember, Jesus was treated like a common criminal. he was treated worse than a common criminal in fact. Godspell is absolutely is celebrating Jesus and his teachings. The entire entire play, which was then turned into a movie is a series of parables put to music. Jesus as Superman is completely completely appropriate. Remember this is Art. You have to understand parables analogies and metaphor. Rock music has obscure lyrics that you have to interpret because they want you to think about it. It’s not country music where they spell it out like a kindergarten story.

@@nedhill1242 That's quite a stretch. If you want to think that Jesus being portrayed as a clown who is crucified on a chain link fence at a junkyard isn't a mockery of Jesus, then that's on you.

@@jamesgeis And if you wanna have a very narrowminded organized religion view of what you think Christianity is then that’s on you. Again, how old are you? Clearly you don’t understand the climate of the early 70s. It was a very innocent time. It was hippies and flower children And Jesus, in fact, would be far more pleased with this then modern organized religion. I can promise you that. And if I need to explain that to you, then you don’t understand Jesus and Christianity. Jesus and Christianity is not the church. In fact, the church is often everything that is wrong with modern Christianity. Because the church is not Christianity.