Peggy Lipton: Breathing Out (or Selling Out)

Peggy Lipton in 1969

For those of us who remember Peggy Lipton in the late '60's and early 70's, she was truly something special. Girls wanted to look like her, walk like her, and talk like her. Guys couldn't get enough of her. She had sort of a pouty demeanor. We would watch her every week on the Mod Squad TV show on ABC.

She was a star.

She is no longer a star in that she is no longer marquis material and certainly not the money earning power of someone like Angelena Jolie.

So Miss Peggy wrote a book. She calls it "Breathing Out." I guess the thinking is that if all of us nerds from the 60's and 70's buy the book,she'll do very, very well. (They might even make a movie out of it.) She says that she slept with Paul McCartney and other celebrities including Elvis, but Elvis wasn't able to "rise to the occasion." Did we need to know that? And there's a chapter on "Married Men." Sounds fascinating!


When I heard about all of this, I thought that something, somehow was missing. I just figured it out. No matter how pretty you once were, no matter how alluring you once were, no matter how hip you were once were, there is absolutely no substitute for CLASS! I'm looking for it, and I want it to be there, but, there is no class here.