Publisher: Kim
Editor: Kim
Typing: Kim
Special thanks to Tammy, Bonnie, and Dorrie, for help with the stapling.
Fans, be proud of your love for Jimmy. I know I am, even thought I’m sixteen now and some of my friends don’t like him anymore for stupid reasons like "He was in that dumb movie about the runaway cow" or "He’s kind of cross-eyed." Loyalty? Ding, ding, ring a bell? I mean, I will love Jimmy Hipps FOREVER! Lots of people don’t believe me. My mother says "Forever is a long time". So I say to her, "I know that forever is a long time. I’m not stupid or something."
And some of my friends have doubts. They say "What about when you are married with kids? Won’t your husband be jealous?" So I tell them I would never marry a man who didn’t truly accept my love for JH and was not threatened by it, and they usually say, "Well, good luck finding someone who is so understanding, because even Jimmy Hipps has bad points, so imagine how many bad points a guy who isn’t Jimmy Hipps has."
Well, if I don’t marry Jimmy Hipps (and I’m not saying that I will—I’m realistic and know that he can go out with just anyone he wants to, including top models), I will marry a man who will at least have his hairdo. And my daughter will love JH like I do, and if I have a son–not that that would be bad but I really love the name Carla and Carl just isn’t the same–I only hope he will grow up to be just like Jimmy, especially in the looks and personality department.
This is a really great calendar. It has a picture for every month, plus the cover, which makes thirteen. And the back has little pictures of the bigger pictures that are inside. If you wanted to, you could cut them out and carry them around with you, but that would ruin the calendar. (Idea: Buy two!)
My favorite picture is the one where Jimmy has his chin in his hand and his hair is very glowy. It’s annoying that the beach in the background is a slide (you can tell by the shadows) but I guess it was rainy that day. There is also one where his shirt is unbuttoned to the third button down. (Blush!)
I think that all Jimmy Hipps fans should buy this calendar. The boxes are big so you have room to write stuff in them, and as I already said, he’s a fox in the photos (although September and November are blurry, which I’m sure is not his fault.)
The denim signing at Jean Machine has been cancelled.
For Sale: Jimmy Hipps candid photos! Complete set of 36 reprints for only $5. (There are people in the way sometimes, but in most of them you can see his whole face.) Jo Ellen Barney, 15 Peppermint Court, Dusty Banks, Ohio.
Special thanks to Tammy, Bonnie, and Debbie, for help with the stapling.
Last year was a different story: not only did he show up, but he signed autographs, and posed for a picture with yours truly (reprints available, but they’re sorta blurry because Dorrie’s hands were shaking so much!) And when I started hyperventilating, he asked me if I was having an asthma fit, which shows that he is considerate.
Well, the big news is that in November I finally got to visit the birthplace of Jimmy Hipps. We were going to my Great Aunt Ruth’s house in the Finger Lakes and practically had to drive through Cortlandt. The people who live there now have many stories to tell about living in the house (like the time a squirrel fell down the chimney and ran around the living room) and they even let me take home some gravel from the driveway. (They said it was there when they moved in, so it’s a sure bet it was once Jimmy’s gravel!)
Then Dad started acting cranky, and Mom said that we should get going, because if we don’t get to Great Aunt Ruth’s before Grandpa gets there everyone starts fighting without her to mediate.
But if you’re even in Cortlandt, New York, stop by 102 Palmer Avenue. (If they’re not home, the key is behind the thermometer on the tree. Don’t make a mess, and say you figured out the key thing on your own.)
You may be wondering what happened to Dorrie (see stapling thanks you’s above). Well, now that she has a "real" boyfriend, she’s been saying that she’s "outgrown" the fan club. But I think it’s all because she does whatever Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Kaplan says, including growing in her bangs, which is ridiculous because she has a huge forehead and looks much better with them.
Since the single "Be My Girl, Girl: was such a big hit last year (the B-side was "You Make My Heart Huge" for all you trivia buffs), Jimmy went into the studio and spent four days straight recording this album.
The songs are very romantic. My favorite is "Touch My Shoulder", but I also like "Sand, Surf, and Rocks" and "Five Day Stubble". The vocal style is smooth but there is this one note that he tries to hold for a long time on "Turn Down the Covers" that I think he should have held shorter, because it goes all out of tune.
The other thing I don’t like about this album is that on the cover he seems to be wearing lipstick, which is creepy.
To Trade: Extra copy of "Holy Cow!" (VHS). Will swap for anything "Beach Hut". Write to Kim c/o this newsletter.
Publisher: Kim
Editor: Kim
Typing: Kim
Special thanks to Debbie, Carnie, and Pattie, for help with the stapling.
Dorrie–who’s been pretty inactive lately, anyway–has decided to move to Alaska and work in a salmon cannery, where she says the ratio of men to women is 50 to 1 (wishful thinking!) And since Tammy started college, she always has a paper due on some really old book. Not like I don’t have plenty to do, with working a 35-hour week in direct marketing, which isn’t as glamorous as it sounds. (By the way, if you need copier supplies, we’re having a special on toner this month.) I don’t see Bonnie at all, since she turned into a total freak who now likes bands where the guys are scary and wear eye makeup (soooo ironic considering her comment about Jimmy wearing lipstick on the cover of "Be My Girl, Girl".)
Debbie, Carnie, and Pattie have been a ton of help. They do a great job, considering the fact that Carnie and Pattie are only eight.
And don’t worry about the whole thing at the airport: it was just one big misunderstanding. Soon we’ll be seeing Jimmy in a whole series of public service announcements, so who’s complaining?
Mommy won’t let me see this movie because it has bad words in it and boobies. But Daddy took me. He says Shammee is pretty. Mommy got mad at Daddy. I like Jimmy Hipps. He is kute! I had popcorn.
St. Jude: Thank you for answering my prayers and renewing "Godiva Hill". You’re the best! Love, Debbie.
Publisher: Kim
Editor: Kim
Typing: Kim
Stapling: Kim
Special thanks to no one!!!!
The twins got into my desk drawer and tried to flush the mailing list down the toilet, so I hope this issue got to most of you, and help your fellow Hippsters out by calling anyone with an M or an N name (flushed) and telling them what happened and that they need to send me their address.
Speaking of twins, the Jebber Twins (double blast from the past!) have turned up busing tables at New York’s hottest new theme restaurant, The All Former-Child-Star Cafe. I am hoping to take the whole family there, if we ever get to take another vacation ever again.
Please, please, please remember that this is YOUR newsletter! Contribute! I certainly don’t do this for my health, which is not that great, by the way. I have lower back pain and sometimes I just stare and stare at my favorite picture of Jimmy Hipps and think, "Jimmy, I know your personal life has its ups and downs–particularly when where Shammee Shoshanah Shane and Teena Kay Keesham drowned each other on the set of "Wetsuit Squad"–but it’s got to be better than being married to a man whose idea of a night out is watching TV on the porch." Since I’m stupid enough to ask a picture for sympathy and advice, why should I be surprised when it doesn’t answer? (The cat is no help either.)
Oh yeah, Debbie says "hi" to all of you. (Actually, she didn’t say "hi!", she wrote "hi!" Ever since she became some kind of special nun she’s not allowed to talk.)
Jimmy has many projects in the works, including a children’s book he is writing about "a catfish with a dream" and he’s designing his own line of urban bolo ties, what ever they are. And last month I saw him on an informercial for some sort of cream, but I didn’t catch the name, because the twins were trying to feed a pillow to the dog and smoke started coming out of the toaster oven.
This collection includes Jimmy’s megahit "Be My Girl, Girl". It is attractively packaged, but I really think they are wrong calling him a "one hit wonder"! Don’t they remember "Whisk My Heart Away" from the soundtrack for "Love Wheel"? You heard it everywhere for about three weeks! I say that if Neil Sedaka sings your song on Oscar night, it counts as a hit! And they still play it at the Laundromat all the time!
"Hipp Hopp" back issues available. Last chance before I have to recycle them. We’re turning the walk-in closet into a room for the twins.
Publisher: Gabby
Editor: Gabby
Typing: Gabby
Special thanks to Princess Tam Tam, Intensia, and Trevor DeLite for help with the stapling.
I think it’s great that there are a lot of boy members signing up. Some of them dress like girls, but that’s cool and really helpful actually. Like Intensia helped me pick out something to wear for my cousin’s Bat Mitzvah. I looked majorly hot, but it was hard to do the bunny hop because it was so tight that I couldn’t move my legs.
All you longtime members may be wondering how Kim is doing. She says "Howdy!" and she told me to tell you she misses you. She and Brad are talking again, because kids need both parents. She kicked him out and he’s now living with someone named Dorrie, who I guess was his pen pal. That’s all she would tell me. And for some reason, she made me promise not to accept any members from Alaska.
Soon you’ll be able to check out our new web site, where you can find downloadable sounds including Jimmy’s most quoted line from "Godiva Hill": "You’d do the same thing it you only has the guts!" There will also be GIFS of the trampoline scene from "Overheated", classic "Oh Boy!" pinups, and a (sizzling!) Quicktime movie of his wedding night (the second one, and I hear it’s going well because this time around he has more insight, although Trevor keeps mumbling something about beards, which I don’t get because Jimmy always shaves except for the stubble he had in "Hotel Bermuda".)
This cover of "Be My Girl, Girl" was recorded by L7 and released as a single on chartreuse vinyl. It also appears on the tribute collection "Boys With Long Lashes: A Tribute to Teen Idol Rock."
I’m waiting for the dance mix.