I remember watching him on TJ Hooker and not thinking he was remotely sexy. Seemed to be one of those Hollywood sex symbols that was a TV executive's version of "hot." David Hasselhoff was another one.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 13, 2020 10:29 AM |
I want to sniff his bikini briefs
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 9, 2020 6:40 PM |
I used to watch Bachelor Party on HBO just to catch him with his shirt off and jerk off. I was 13.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 9, 2020 6:43 PM |
His face does not fit his body.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 9, 2020 6:44 PM |
I saw Grease 2 at an impressionable young age and remember finding him oddly alluring.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 9, 2020 6:44 PM |
I saw him, Dee Dee Conn, Donnie Most and some DL patron saint whose name escapes me doing some play where they read letters onstage. He was good and looked good too. I may have alzheimers because this was in February and I can't remember the name of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 9, 2020 6:44 PM |
Merv Griffin apparently found him hot
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 9, 2020 6:45 PM |
Another guy that was supposed to be "hot" but I didn't see it: Bart Braverman
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 9, 2020 6:46 PM |
R9 Did they have a thing? tell us more.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 9, 2020 6:47 PM |
The porn performer Ashton Summers looks like him when he was younger.
He was very sexy in Grease 2, but he looks awful flashing that big cheesy smile in OP's photo.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 9, 2020 6:47 PM |
Eww..no. and with Chachi.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 9, 2020 6:48 PM |
It's funny how desperately I wanted thick feathered black hair like his when I was 13, and now it looks so awful to me.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 9, 2020 6:48 PM |
Was it "Love Letters", r8?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 9, 2020 6:49 PM |
Zmed was always super cheesy and came off as completely narcissistic, which killed any attraction I might have had otherwise.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 9, 2020 6:50 PM |
The poor man's Erik Estrada.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 9, 2020 6:53 PM |
Almost 20 years ago I caught Zmed and Mackenzie Phillips in their tour of the sticks in Same Time, Next Year. Zmed replaced an "injured" Jeff Conaway at the last minute.
Sept. 17-22 at the Shubert Performing Arts Center (New Haven, CT) Sept. 24 and 25 at the Opera House in Lexington (Lexington, KY) Sept. 27-Oct. 6 at the Playhouse Theatre (Wilmington, DE) Oct. 8 and 9 at the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts (Portsmouth, OH) Oct. 11 and 12 at the Macomb Center for the Perf. Arts (Clinton Township, MI) Oct. 15 and 16 at the Sundome Performing Arts Center (Sun City West, AZ) Oct. 19 at the Koger Center for the Arts (Columbia, SC) Oct. 20 at the Grand Opera House (Macon, GA) Oct. 21 at the Dixon Center for the Performing Arts (Andalusia, AL) Oct. 22 at the Okaloosa-Walton Arts Center (Niceville, FL) Oct. 24 at the Princess Theatre (Decatur, AL) Oct. 27 at the Cumberland County Civic Center (Fayetteville, NC) Oct. 29 at the Curfman Hall (Covington, VA) Oct. 30 at the Maryland Theatre (Hagerstown, MD) Oct. 31 at the State Theatre (Easton, PA) Nov. 1 at the Union County Arts Center (Rahway, NJ) Nov. 2 at the Garde Arts Center (New London, CT) Nov. 3 at the Theatre at Queensborough Community College (Bayside, NY) Nov. 5 at the George Hall Auditorium (Ogdensburg, NY) Nov. 6 at the Capitol Centre (North Bay, Ontario) Nov. 7 at the Centre in the Square (Kitchener, Ontario) Nov. 8 at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center (Dearborn, MI) Nov. 10 at the Irving L. Young Auditorium (Whitewater, WI) Nov. 12-24 at the Victoria Theatre (Dayton, OH)
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 9, 2020 6:58 PM |
He is, of course, best remembered for playing Raoul in the musical version of Eating Raoul.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 9, 2020 7:00 PM |
Jesus, r20
How many cities did you catch him in?
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 9, 2020 7:00 PM |
Thanks for that extensive schedule, r20. It will prove so useful when I put the pins up on my wall map of the United States to see where they played and when.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 9, 2020 7:01 PM |
I think old Merv fantasized about Mame. I remember a DL post from years ago describing all the attention he gave Lucy Ball at the time but behind her back made a point of emphasizing that even he would have done a better job.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 9, 2020 7:03 PM |
When William Shatner hosted SNL, they did a parody of a TJ Hooker episode, and Dana Carvey played the Adrian Zmed character. He wore a wig of feathered black hair that was fluffed up about a full foot high.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 9, 2020 7:04 PM |
R26 Too funny. I remember thinking that William Shatner's TJ Hooker hairpiece was too dark and unnatural looking.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 9, 2020 7:10 PM |
[quote]Almost 20 years ago I caught Zmed and Mackenzie Phillips in their tour of the sticks in Same Time, Next Year. Zmed replaced an "injured" Jeff Conaway at the last minute.
I saw it with Gary Collins and Sue Ane Langdon. I don't know which would have been worse. Close call.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 9, 2020 7:12 PM |
I saw him on Broadway as the Narrator in "Blood Brothers". I was there to see Carole King and he just happened to be in the way.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 9, 2020 7:13 PM |
For r10: Bart Braverman in "I Love Lucy."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 9, 2020 7:13 PM |
You just know there was a TJ Hooker epsiode centered around Adrian Zmed going undercover as a male stripper.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 9, 2020 7:18 PM |
Oh my God! Thank you, r30! I was just last night having a heated argument here in Miami about WHAT was playing Nov. 6th, 2020 at the Capitol Centre in North Bay, Ontario! Earnings, caftans, and insults we're flying and tears and blood were shed! But, thanks to your confirmation, I win! I win at last! Long live Adrian Zmed!
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 9, 2020 7:35 PM |
Never heard of him until now. Yes, he's hot (at least then)
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 9, 2020 7:38 PM |
I saw Edward Mulhare (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir) and Kathryn Crosby (Bing's widow) in their Same Time, Next Year tour stop in Greensboro, NC.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 9, 2020 7:40 PM |
R16, it was Middletown and the woman I forgot was Sandy Duncan. I can't believe I forgot because I was staring at her eye and when she lost her place on the script I wondered if it was because of her eye. My husband got me tickets for Valentines and before the performance they all ran thro the theater and gave high fives and this was around the time I started freaking out about coronavirus and just sat there concentrating on not touching my face and wondering if they Purelled their hands after the audience touchfest. You know who was good and looked good, was Donnie Most. He had a pretty touching performance and so did Didi Conn.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 9, 2020 7:48 PM |
[quote] His face does not fit his body.
Yes, that’s what always creeped me out about him. The mismatch was too repulsive.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 9, 2020 7:59 PM |
Adrian Zmed looks like he's related to Dr Oz
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 9, 2020 8:04 PM |
[quote] I saw it with Gary Collins and Sue Ane Langdon. I don't know which would have been worse. Close call.
She showed her tits in playboy.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 9, 2020 8:07 PM |
Which was a bigger TV has-been curse to the playhouses and theaters of mid-sized towns across America: "Same Time, Next Year" or "Love Letters"?
I would say "Love Letters" because they didn't even have to memorize the lines. They just read from their scripts onstage.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 9, 2020 8:12 PM |
r42 Don't forget "The Gin Game."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 9, 2020 8:26 PM |
he was on chicago's bozo's circus filling in for cookie, i think
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 9, 2020 8:45 PM |
I remember Bart Braverman, but not for ever being hot or even supposedly hot. He always seemed as goofy as the characters he played.
Zmed on the other hand acted like he knew he was sexy.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 9, 2020 9:27 PM |
In OP’s pic, from the neck up, he looks like a girl wearing earrings. He looks like my very Brooklyn-Italian cousin.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 9, 2020 10:07 PM |
[quote] I saw it with Gary Collins and Sue Ane Langdon. I don't know which would have been worse. Close call.
Was Collins drunk at the time? Because that would have been entertaining.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 9, 2020 10:08 PM |
[quote]I saw him on Broadway as the Narrator in "Blood Brothers". I was there to see Carole King and he just happened to be in the way.
So disagree. Saw him in "Blood Brothers' and Rosie's "Grease". He has great voice.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 9, 2020 10:26 PM |
I can’t get a handle on Bart Braverman’s ethnicity, he looks Indian!
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 9, 2020 10:27 PM |
r46 I'm sure he's thrilled some geriatric eldergay took a pass on him.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 9, 2020 10:33 PM |
r50
You just think that because he played an Indian on Seinfeld.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 9, 2020 10:33 PM |
As far as 80s sidekicks go, I nominate Doug Barr as one of the hottest.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 9, 2020 10:37 PM |
[quote] I remember Bart Braverman, but not for ever being hot or even supposedly hot. He always seemed as goofy as the characters he played.
Isn't Braverman of the homosexual variety?
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 9, 2020 10:46 PM |
I saw Adrian Zmed in a touring production of Grease. It was awful and he was awful. He's supposed to have a good singing voice, but not that performance on that day.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 9, 2020 10:47 PM |
Adrian Zmed = Poor Man's Eddie Mekka
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 9, 2020 10:48 PM |
I think Bart Braverman looks Indian because he looks Indian, not because he played one on an episode of Seinfeld. Actually he could also play middle eastern, or any generic ethnicity. Maybe he was adopted? He’s very dark. Isn’t Braverman a Jewish name? maybe he’s Sephardic
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 9, 2020 11:42 PM |
Adrian Zmed was hot back in the day.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 10, 2020 12:29 AM |
[quote] She showed her tits in playboy.
Who didn't?
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 10, 2020 2:16 AM |
r62 at first I thought you were the morally corrupt Faye Resnick.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 10, 2020 11:55 PM |
[quote][R62] at first I thought you were the morally corrupt Faye Resnick.
Ha! Our Karen was part of the 1980s Broadway Dancers Playboy spread.
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 11, 2020 12:02 AM |
What was that dance show Zmed hosted?
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 11, 2020 4:25 AM |
He hosted the last few seasons of dance fever r65
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 11, 2020 4:49 AM |
I'm not a 'TJ Hooker' fan, but sometimes I'll have it on in the background and will always stop what I'm doing when Zmed is shirtless on there (which is often). I believe it comes on Antenna TV or Decades; one of the so-called mesothelioma channels.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 11, 2020 7:58 AM |
I always thought he did his best work as a wee-hours cohost on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 11, 2020 8:20 AM |
[quote]He hosted the last few seasons of dance fever
He didn't succumb to Merv but he did to Eva
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 12, 2020 10:30 AM |
Pass around bottom in the 70's/80's?
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 12, 2020 11:03 AM |
r70
Nope, he was on Bozo's Circus. They would never allow such a person on such a wholesome show.
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 13, 2020 10:29 AM |
