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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Michael Cole
jamaemovies — 18 years ago(July 17, 2007 05:37 AM)
Yesterday I bought Peggy Lipton's book, "Breathing Out". I just started it, but I am enjoyi2000ng it immensely. After thumbing thru the photos, I thought back to my days of total obsession with "The Mod Squad". That afternoon, my husband and I took in a movie, "Mr. Brooks". I almost screamed in the movie when I saw my teenage heartthrob, MICHAEL COLE.
I was so happy to see him, only wished his time on screen had been more. I loved Pete, Linc, and Julie, but for some reason, I really really loved Pete! He was my Tiger Beat, Right On Boyfriend. I loved him so much I wrote an essay about him in high school. It was called: Loved is Color Blind! I adored and was so proud of Linc and looked more like him, but my heart longed for Pete. My English teacher gave me an "A" on the paper, but what I cherished most were her comments. She said, one day she hoped to have a child of her own. She would probably have blonde hair and blues eyes, but she hoped she would grow up to be just like me! WOW! What fund memories. The funny thing is, I felt those same feelings of adolescent love for Pete all day yesterday. I guess love is color blind and timeless. -
mmilliken47 — 18 years ago(September 10, 2007 05:49 PM)
That's a nice story about your essay. Pete was my heartthrob, too. My first TV love. I had a chance recently to buy the entire Mod Squad series on DVD (bootleg, I guess, since it hasn't been released yet on DVD), and have been watching a few episodes every night. After nearly 40 years of hardly ever seeing him, he still holds up and I am in love all over again.
When I was 13, at the height of the Mod Squad, we moved from Ohio to Maine and it was a big upheaval for me. As silly as it seems now, I felt like Pete was my friend and it really helped back then. Watching the shows again now, I still feel the same thing. Wherever you are Pete, thank you.
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dnvrsangel1 — 18 years ago(March 24, 2008 06:16 PM)
I have to join the "FIRST LOVE" club here too. I met him because he was my cousin's best friend in High School and they hung out together surfing, etc. Then when I saw him on Mod Squad, I began a very intense crush period. I don't think I have ever really gotten over it after all these years. I loved this showand now having the DVD's, I too am finding I feel exactly the same tug at my heart and all that I did when I was a teen.
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kidkimba — 18 years ago(April 05, 2008 12:55 AM)
You all must be a few years older than I am. I was just 7 when Mod Squad hit the TV screen and I can only remember the later years around 1970-71 timeframeso I was like 10/11 and totally mesmerized by that curly hair and green eyes. I often watched the show when it was in syndication in later years. I got a kick out of seeing Mr. Cole play Harlan Barett in General Hospital. That was a few years ago, but still quite special. It's quite interesting to know that he was also born in July and is a Moon Baby just as I am. I seem to remember that he was either married to or dating Peggy Lipton prior to his marriage to Paula Kelly.but who knows.
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mmilliken47 — 17 years ago(April 25, 2008 06:42 PM)
No, he and Peggy Lipton never had anything going on, at least according to her autobiography. She's pretty honest about her "dating" history in the book. The first time they met was when they got the parts on The Mod Squad.
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jf_moran49 — 12 years ago(May 03, 2013 10:39 AM)
I, too, had a crush on Michael Cole in my pre-adolescence (I was 10 years old the year "The Mod Squad" debuted on ABC-TV). I thought he looked cool, not just his biological beauty, which was obvious, but the way he dressed and carried himself. I loved his voice and his gentle, quiet style, with the ability to be tough when the situation called for it. Of course most of this is only from watching Cole playing a character in a television crime drama. But I have an instinct his real-life demeanor wasn't so very far off from his character on "The Mod Squad."
And, "jamaemovies," had I, like yourself, written a school essay inspired by my attraction to Michael Cole, back in 1968, I guess the title might have read something like "Love is Gender Blind," as I was a young boy (homosexual, though I didn't know what that was then) with a crush on an older guy (presumably heterosexual).
Michael Cole was not the only of my same-sex celebrity crushes as a boy, which I'm sure even some heterosexual boys had before they matured. But Cole was, perhaps, the first crush I had based on something more than physical beauty, as I was also attracted to his personality, something one got to see more of with an actor on a weekly television series. Cole was also publicized right along with the other young male entertainers (most of them rock & roll musicians) in "16 Magazine," a situation which further encouraged fantasies.
It was very frustrating for me to have these same-sex attractions as a boy, because I didn't know exactly why I was feeling them as I did, yet had enough instinct to know I shouldn't tell anyone about them. I suppose my parents and my sister didn't think much wrong with a young boy having posters of rock & roll musicians on his bedroom wall, as many heterosexual boys also admired rock musicians in that era, almost in the same manner they would idolize athletes. But I knew my idolization of these younger male entertainers was something more, and had no one in my life with whom I could express those feelings.
I'm sure I wouldn't be attracted to Michael Cole in that same way anymore, as I prefer guys even younger than myself from an intimacy standpoint. But I will always think of Michael Cole's character of "Pete Cochran" in a special way. I certainly wouldn't mind meeting Michael Cole for coffee, if that very unlikely opportunity ever arose. Heck, I even find Kent McCord's more "square" cop ("Officer Jim Reed") on the TV series "Adam-12" to be cool nowadays. -
onestar-87908 — 10 years ago(December 06, 2015 04:37 PM)
Dude,
The only way you're going to meet Michael Cole is to pay for it at the Signing shows he does. See the dude is into money and could give a flying fig about fans. So don't waste your time anymore on the dude.