The nearsighted girl in the pink dress further endeared herself to millions by squinting to see her scores (eight 5.8's and a 5.9 in technical merit, all 5.9's in artistic interpretation). 13, 1976, she walleyed, toe-looped, Salchowed, Axeled and Lutzed her way into our hearts, finishing her performance with her signature Hamill camel (a camel spin into a sit spin). In four nearly flawless minutes at the Olympic Ice Hall in Innsbruck, on Feb. Partly because she has aged so gracefully, people have a hard time reconciling 37-year-old Dorothy Hamill, president of Dorothy Hamill International and executive producer of Cinderella.Frozen in Time, with 19-year-old Dorothy Hamill, frozen in time at the 12th Winter Games. So multiply the people and the costumes and the props and the ice-, fog- and snow-making machinery by two, and you have some idea of what Dot, as she is known to everyone in the show, is chaperoning. There is a concurrent West Tour, which Hamill also runs and periodically skates with. And that's just the East Tour of the Ice Capades. But then Dorothy is also the matriarch of 30 skaters, 15 crew members and several tractor-trailers' worth of ice-show business. It's time for bed, don't you think?"Īlexandra, known as Packy, is the only child of Dorothy Hamill and Dr. "Mommy," she pleads, "can I go skating now?" Asked if anything like that had ever happened to her, Dorothy says, "Well, once two men hiding in our garage in Connecticut surprised me, but they were just religious fanatics trying to save me from a life of Hollywood."Īs the last skaters leave, five-year-old Alexandra Forsythe tugs on the hem of her mother's skirt.
figure skating championships and 3) catch more news about the assault on Nancy Kerrigan by an apparent wacko earlier that day. She says good night to various members of the company, who are hurrying back to the hotel to 1) deliver their "secret Santa" presents, 2) watch the men's finals of the U.S.
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