Christine on Big Love

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I was listening over the weekend to an interview Laura Gross did with Christine & Lindsey in 1987. I just thought it was funny that Christine didn't appear to have thought about the love grunts until confronted:

Laura: Did you expect the incredible broohaha over Big Love and the love grunts?

Lindsey: The love grunts. [hehe]

Christine: Wooooh. Well, you know, I didn't even actually regard them as love grunts myself. I must admit I was in shock when somebody said to me, "Is that...does that mean what it's supposed to mean?" I was in shock.

Laura: What was it supposed to mean? [laughing]

Christine: Well I just said "yes." I didn't know quite what they meant and then I went back [and listened] and THEN I became aware.

Laura: Well, the first time we did it on the BBC, the producer said to me over my headphones, "I'm going to count you down and you come in right after the orgasm." [laughs]

[Christine hoots and laughs loudly]

Lindsey: Well, that's pretty close. The thing that cracked me up was that that was actually me. We slowed the tape machine down and then when you bring it up it sounds a little more female. I guess there's a name for that...but uh....[laughs]....I thought it was unusual, it was kind of humorous that a lot of people were interested in finding out who it was..... I mean, to me, it was a hook, certainly, and it was something that was going to get some attention but I didn't really think it would garner that much interest.

Laura: Yes, the nightly joke on the David Letterman show....

Lindsey: Right.

Christine: Oh yes.

Lindsey: That's all great. I think part of --

Christine: Good publicity.

Lindsey: Right. It might have just been that it goes back to it being two couples originally and the dynamic that's always been in the group from that -- "Was it Stevie?"

Laura: So it was you?

Lindsey: It was me.

Laura: I thought it was your girlfriend.

Lindsey: That's what's been printed, but as we know, you can't always believe what you read.

Christine: It's rumours you see...

Laura: Oh god right, back to that! [laughs]