“The Love Boat” lived as much as its identify for star Ted Lange.
On a latest episode of Steve Kmetko’s “Still Here Hollywood” podcast, Lange defined that his function as bartender Isaac, who provided drinks and recommendation to passengers and crew, led to the inspiration for an recommendation column.
Known as “Ask Isaac,” the thought got here from the truth that Lange “was the bartender from the television show, ‘The Love Boat.’ People would come into the bar and ask Isaac, ‘Hey Isaac, I got a [problem]…’ And I would say, ‘Hey, do this.'”
“Ask Isaac” ran within the now shuttered FHM journal, initially co-written with grownup movie star Jenna Jameson.
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Ted Lange, who performed bartender Isaac on “The Love Boat,” says his function led to a intercourse recommendation column. (Craig Sjodin /American Broadcasting Corporations by way of Getty Photographs)
“It was a men’s magazine, first of all. So you got young men reading the magazine. So my goal was, first off all, to make sure that if they were having sex that it was protected sex. So I was a big advocate for condoms,” he stated. “And then I tried to add humor into the advice. Whatever the question was, I was looking for the joke.”
Jameson was let go not lengthy into the column’s run and was changed by Beth Ostrosky, Howard Stern’s then girlfriend and now spouse.
Lange recalled, “I would fly into New York… they would take pictures of me with a sailor cap and a pipe — à la Hugh Hefner. And Beth would be in a nightie of some kind.”
“My main goal was condoms and humor,” he added. “If I can work those two things in the answer, then we’re doing alright.”
Lange’s column, “Ask Isaac,” started with grownup movie star Jenna Jameson earlier than Howard Stern’s future spouse, Beth Ostrosky, took over. (CBS Photograph Archive/Karwai Tang)
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Although the column was short-lived, Lange has had a prolific profession as a director and author for each tv and theater.
And he nonetheless fondly remembers his time on the sequence, which ran from 1977 to 1986 on ABC, and co-starred Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Lauren Tewes and Jill Wheelan.
Lange starred with Fred Grandy, Bernie Kopell, Gavin MacLeod, Lauren Tewes, and Jill Wheelan on the hit ABC sequence. (Getty Photographs)
The present was additionally well-known for weekly appearances by celebrities, together with the likes of Gene Kelly.
Lange stated the solid was informed to not trouble Kelly exterior of capturing when he got here to the present.
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“[They said], ‘Don’t talk to Gene. He’s a grumpy guy, so just leave him alone. When you do your scenes, fine, but don’t talk to Gene’,” he stated. “We all said, ‘OK, yeah, fine.'”
However Lange took an opportunity and approached Kelly, seeing him studying {a magazine} whereas ready for a scene and remembered considering, “‘Screw this, I’m gonna go talk to Gene Kelly.’ So I go, he’s sitting in one chair, I sit across from him, I go, ‘Hi.'”
“My main goal was condoms and humor. If I can work those two things in the answer, then we’re doing alright.”
Kelly acknowledged him however went again to studying, and Lange broke the ice.
“I said, ‘Can I ask you a question?’ You can see him go, ‘What?’ I said, ‘What was it like dancing with the Nicholas brothers?’ Now, for your audience that don’t know who they are, they’re two Black tap dancers out of the Cotton Club back [during the] Harlem Renaissance,” Lange defined. “And Gene put them in his movies. They were incredible dancers.”
Gene Kelly with The Nicholas Brothers in “The Pirate.” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Photographs)
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Fayard and Harold Nicholas starred in 1948’s “The Pirate,” with Kelly, in addition to different basic movies like “Stormy Weather.”
Lange’s query caught Kelly’s consideration.
“‘You want to know about the Nicholas brothers?’ And I said, ‘Yeah.’ So he told me this wonderful story about the Nicholas brothers. And then, they call us on the set, we go on the set, we do a scene together. Then we’re done and we go back to the bus, the little bus. He says, ‘Hey, you want to have a drink with me at the hotel?'”
Lange speculates that his much less apparent query about Kelly’s profession sparked the icon’s curiosity in chatting with him. (AFP/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
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He continued, “After we finished our day’s work, I hooked up with him, sat down in the hotel and he was wonderful.”
Lange added, “And then on reflection, I said, I bet everybody when they get a chance to talk to him, talks about ‘Singin’ in the Rain’. I had no interest in ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ because I knew the Nicholas brothers.”
