It's through these comments I learned about Pat Loud's demise. i met Pat and Lance in the late seventies in New York. She was a great lady and Lance a great actor but always a gentleman. RIP
My roommate and I were fascinated with this series! We watched it twice a week; they'd repeat that week's episode twice in a week. I felt bad for them, all the negative publicity. We really liked the family and I think they succeeded despite the series. Losing Lance so young was tragic. But he got his parents back together.😊
I knew Lance from community college around 1980 and we hung out once or twice, I went to Hollywood his apartment. All I remember is he was such a sweet guy. If he was famous when i knew him, I didn't know it.
Pat: You are so beautiful! Thank you for doing the documentary so many years ago. You were the burning hot fox of those wonderful times. Even though I had to experience Vietnam as a combat Marine, I was able to experience California. What a state!
I wish we could see the whole thing again on PBS. Even unreleased stuff. I was too young the first time, and didn't know about when they showed it again!
angela do a search for American family on pbs.org. You can watch some full episodes posted on there and buy the entire show to watch again. I was on the website just today.
cubomania3 This link has some viewable clips (one is 58 minutes long, others are 10 or 15 minutes). I’m trying to look for the entire series to stream or even purchase on dvd. Cannot find yet. www.thirteen.org/american-family/page/2/
She lasted a long time 94 years old after all that cigarette smoking and drinking, Bill Loud made 97 years old before he kicked the bucket. Amazing with all that secondhand cigarette smoke from her and his drinking. They both went out peacefully couldn’t ask for much more.
I watched their family drama unfold when it originally aired. I was a teen and spellbound to be that fly on the wall. The OG reality show. I'd never seen anyone like Lance. In those days it was still taboo in mainstream America to be gay and so flamboyant and I even lived on the other side of the Hollywood Hills. Pat was the coolest hottest Mom I'd seen. Bill was hot and detached. I could go on and on. It's fun to see her in this video.
I'm a huge fan of Pat Loud. I couldn't adore her more and I'd do anything she told me to do--which means I've already ordered this book. I love Lance almost as much as I love Pat....and all things Loud--it's so easy to love the Louds and anyone who hasn't seen "An American Family" has something tremendously fantastic to look forward to!
@@lizadivine3785 Sounds like you’re a bible thumper. They’re always the ones that think they know what God wants. If there is a god, it’s judgmental people like you he’d be disappointed in.
At "sweet 16" I watched PBS'- AN AMERICAN FAMILY each & every week! It mirrored what was going on in my family at that particular time.......I WILL buy "the book!
I watched the series when it was originally aired, and it's hard now to imagine just how shocking Lance was. I'd also love to see the series again, but I guess that's never going to happen -- I read somewhere that because the Loud children were always playing records in the background, it's made it virtually impossible to now clear the music rights, that it would cost millions. Apparently back in the seventies, it wasn't an issue.
I bet Lance was mighty miffed after his Dick Cavett interview that one side of the collar of his colorful shirt was under the lapel of his coat - on national TV.
Lance's life took a very sad and steep trajectory to his early death. I always wonder what his life would have been like without the drug abuse and AIDS illness.
You might as well say “I wonder what all life might have looked like without the AIDS epidemic” which was the real tragedy and insinuating that someone infected with AIDS actually did that to themselves is sicker than the virus.
It's through these comments I learned about Pat Loud's demise. i met Pat and Lance in the late seventies in New York. She was a great lady and Lance a great actor but always a gentleman.
RIP
i am so happy that Pat is doing well and looks great.
she died today aged 94
My roommate and I were fascinated with this series! We watched it twice a week; they'd repeat that week's episode twice in a week. I felt bad for them, all the negative publicity. We really liked the family and I think they succeeded despite the series. Losing Lance so young was tragic. But he got his parents back together.😊
I knew Lance from community college around 1980 and we hung out once or twice, I went to Hollywood his apartment. All I remember is he was such a sweet guy. If he was famous when i knew him, I didn't know it.
RIP pat. We lost a star today!
She was a freak.
Pat: You are so beautiful! Thank you for doing the documentary so many years ago. You were the burning hot fox of those wonderful times. Even though I had to experience Vietnam as a combat Marine, I was able to experience California. What a state!
California...what an incredible dump!!
I wish we could see the whole thing again on PBS. Even unreleased stuff. I was too young the first time, and didn't know about when they showed it again!
angela do a search for American family on pbs.org. You can watch some full episodes posted on there and buy the entire show to watch again. I was on the website just today.
cubomania3 This link has some viewable clips (one is 58 minutes long, others are 10 or 15 minutes). I’m trying to look for the entire series to stream or even purchase on dvd. Cannot find yet.
www.thirteen.org/american-family/page/2/
She lasted a long time 94 years old after all that cigarette smoking and drinking, Bill Loud made 97 years old before he kicked the bucket. Amazing with all that secondhand cigarette smoke from her and his drinking. They both went out peacefully couldn’t ask for much more.
the first of all reality shows, it was groundbreaking and hella fun.
Have read 'Lance Out Loud' twice now. Great pictures. A fitting tribute. Thanks, Pat. RIP
Lance seemed like such a nice guy; glad his mom was so close to him 🥲
Pat looks great....God Bless her!I remember watching it on TV.The Grandfather of reality TV.
Pat you are the Alpha Mom of all time! I aspire to follow you...XOX
I watched their family drama unfold when it originally aired. I was a teen and spellbound to be that fly on the wall. The OG reality show. I'd never seen anyone like Lance. In those days it was still taboo in mainstream America to be gay and so flamboyant and I even lived on the other side of the Hollywood Hills. Pat was the coolest hottest Mom I'd seen. Bill was hot and detached. I could go on and on. It's fun to see her in this video.
Pat Loud was an amazing mother.
I'm a huge fan of Pat Loud. I couldn't adore her more and I'd do anything she told me to do--which means I've already ordered this book. I love Lance almost as much as I love Pat....and all things Loud--it's so easy to love the Louds and anyone who hasn't seen "An American Family" has something tremendously fantastic to look forward to!
Love Lance, he was so completely his own person.
He was an addict. And he was a MESS
@@lizadivine3785 reducing a persons whole life to nothing but pejoratives, actually makes you sad and pathetic.
@@marty88ish no I called it. I am not sad or pathetic but I’m sick of my government telling me unwell GODLESS individuals are ok.
@@lizadivine3785 Sounds like you’re a bible thumper. They’re always the ones that think they know what God wants. If there is a god, it’s judgmental people like you he’d be disappointed in.
@@marty88ish nope you are totally incorrect.
R.I.P. Pat Loud. Jan 10,2021
At "sweet 16" I watched PBS'- AN AMERICAN FAMILY each & every week! It mirrored what was going on in my family at that particular time.......I WILL buy "the book!
OMG! Pat Loud!!!!!!!!
He was brilliant!!! Brilliant as in a shining star and a brilliant dazzling mind out loud!!!!
I think of Lance often. I think of that era in New York often.
Pat is 94 as of Dec 30 2020
Thank you for posting this.
I’d heard Lance dyed his hair in honor of David Bowie. I wish I could find the original show in some format. Would love to watch them all.
I watched the series when it was originally aired, and it's hard now to imagine just how shocking Lance was. I'd also love to see the series again, but I guess that's never going to happen -- I read somewhere that because the Loud children were always playing records in the background, it's made it virtually impossible to now clear the music rights, that it would cost millions. Apparently back in the seventies, it wasn't an issue.
I bet Lance was mighty miffed after his Dick Cavett interview that one side of the collar of his colorful shirt was under the lapel of his coat - on national TV.
Lance had late 70s early 80s hair in 1973 😊
Lance's life took a very sad and steep trajectory to his early death. I always wonder what his life would have been like without the drug abuse and AIDS illness.
You might as well say “I wonder what all life might have looked like without the AIDS epidemic” which was the real tragedy and insinuating that someone infected with AIDS actually did that to themselves is sicker than the virus.
I thought his act was covering up an unhappy person.
That was a crazy, creative, chaotic, experimental, drug-ridden time.
Pat was too good a woman. Lance was not the image he portrayed to her. Sad, but too true.
She's STILL alive, with all her smoking all the time!
Cinema Verite looks good...sort of
I enjoyed it.
I wonder if Pat quit smoking.
+cmania26 she has!
Is that YOUR business?
Who cares if she quit smoking?
Yes she has, thankfully so.
I got my start at CBGB's too, only next door at CBGB's gallery.
Uniquely strange family even by todays standards. I feel PBS wanted to film this family not some average family...how futuristic
In-bloody-credible