Adrian Zmed - Did anyone actually find him hot?

I want to sniff his bikini briefs

no...

Zmed now

He's headless now, R3?

I used to watch Bachelor Party on HBO just to catch him with his shirt off and jerk off. I was 13.

His face does not fit his body.

I saw Grease 2 at an impressionable young age and remember finding him oddly alluring.

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.

Merv Griffin apparently found him hot

Another guy that was supposed to be "hot" but I didn't see it: Bart Braverman

How did I miss this?

R9 Did they have a thing? tell us more.

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.

Eww..no. and with Chachi.

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.

Was it "Love Letters", r8?

Zmed was always super cheesy and came off as completely narcissistic, which killed any attraction I might have had otherwise.

The poor man's Erik Estrada.

Gypsy homewrecker.

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)

He is, of course, best remembered for playing Raoul in the musical version of Eating Raoul.

Jesus, r20

How many cities did you catch him in?

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.

R18 = Glenn Scarpelli

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.

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.

R26 Too funny. I remember thinking that William Shatner's TJ Hooker hairpiece was too dark and unnatural looking.

[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.

He needs to buy a vowel.

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.

For r10: Bart Braverman in "I Love Lucy."

You just know there was a TJ Hooker epsiode centered around Adrian Zmed going undercover as a male stripper.

I’d hit it.

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!

Never heard of him until now. Yes, he's hot (at least then)

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.

HAF from A to Z!

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.

[quote] His face does not fit his body.

Yes, that’s what always creeped me out about him. The mismatch was too repulsive.

Adrian Zmed looks like he's related to Dr Oz

[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.

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.

r42 Don't forget "The Gin Game."

he was on chicago's bozo's circus filling in for cookie, i think

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.

In OP’s pic, from the neck up, he looks like a girl wearing earrings. He looks like my very Brooklyn-Italian cousin.

[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.

He was hot for a while

[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.

I can’t get a handle on Bart Braverman’s ethnicity, he looks Indian!

r46 I'm sure he's thrilled some geriatric eldergay took a pass on him.

r50

You just think that because he played an Indian on Seinfeld.

As far as 80s sidekicks go, I nominate Doug Barr as one of the hottest.

[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?

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.

Adrian Zmed = Poor Man's Eddie Mekka

Classic PTM

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

[quote]Dee Dee Conn

I've been molested.

Adrian Zmed was hot back in the day.

R51 -

[quote] She showed her tits in playboy.

Who didn't?

r62 at first I thought you were the morally corrupt Faye Resnick.

[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.

What was that dance show Zmed hosted?

He hosted the last few seasons of dance fever r65

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.

I always thought he did his best work as a wee-hours cohost on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.

[quote]He hosted the last few seasons of dance fever

He didn't succumb to Merv but he did to Eva

Pass around bottom in the 70's/80's?

r70

Nope, he was on Bozo's Circus. They would never allow such a person on such a wholesome show.