Ray Smith was one of the show’s secretly gay dancers. He would dance on the show until early 1960. He debuted in Studio 3B at WFIL-TV, near the El train stop in West Philadelphia, in 1956 when he was a 13-year-old junior high school student. But back in the “Bandstand” days, Smith was one of the show’s secretly gay dancers. Sullivan’s co-author, Ray Smith, recently retired after 40 years as an Emmy-winning “Today” show producer. I kissed a girl, and I liked it!” Sullivan, now 74 and long out of the closet, reveals in a fascinating self-published book, “ Bandstand Diaries” - billed as “The Book You’ve Waited Over 50 Years to Read!” “I knew I was different early on, but being with all these friends, I came to terms with my feelings. But he feared that if the show’s secret ever came out, Middle America would change the channel. What they didn’t know was that Arlene and several of the other female dancers, and most of the handsome teen boys, were gay.Ĭlark, known as America’s oldest teenager, knew. Millions of kids from Brooklyn to Beverly Hills ran home from school every weekday to watch them dance, imitate their styles and fantasize about their lives. They were the squeaky-clean Kardashians of their era, and “Bandstand” could easily claim the title as the first reality show.
Angel Chevresttįive-foot-two, brown-eyed, brown-haired Arlene and handsome Kenny, a year younger, were among the TV music show’s elite, its stars, the vaunted “regulars” along with another couple often on camera - pert, blond Justine Carrelli and suave Bob Clayton. Arlene Sullivan and Kenny Rossi on the cover of Teen magazine in 1959. The big teenybopper magazines of the era - Sixteen and Teen - plastered “Bandstand” dancers on their covers and wrote glowing, gossipy stories about their lives in Philadelphia, where Dick Clark produced the show. They joined Arlene’s and Kenny’s fan clubs. The 100 most common passwords are listed in a separate section these may not be used as passwords.When cute young teenagers Arlene Sullivan and Kenny Rossi slow danced together on “American Bandstand” back in the late ’50s and early ’60s, kids across the country swooned. They are not duplicated here for space and because Wikipedia:Password strength requirements currently uses the number 10,000, but checking them would not be a terrible idea. Lists of the top 100,000 and 1,000,000 passwords are also available from the OWASP project.
It may also be useful to browse the file to see how secure-looking a completely insecure password can appear.
To use this list you can do a search within your browser (control-F or command-F) to see whether your password comes up, without transmitting your information over the Internet. "experienced" at 9975 and "doom" at 9983) hint this may not be a sorted list. The passwords were listed in a numerical order, but the blocks of entries and positions of some simpler entries (e.g. It represents the top 10,000 passwords from a list of 10 million compiled by Mark Burnett for other specific attribution see the readme file.
The OWASP project publishes its SecList software content as CC-by-SA 3.0 this page takes no position on whether the list data is subject to database copyright or public domain. This particular list originates from the OWASP SecLists Project ( ) and is copied from its content on GitHub ( ) to link it more conveniently from Wikipedia. The passwords may then be tried against any account online that can be linked to the first, to test for passwords reused on other sites.
Usually passwords are not tried one-by-one against a system's secure server online instead a hacker might manage to gain access to a shadowed password file protected by a one-way encryption algorithm, then test each entry in a file like this to see whether its encrypted form matches what the server has on record. A hacker can use or generate files like this, which may readily be compiled from breaches of sites such as Ashley Madison. If your password is on this list of 10,000 most common passwords, you need a new password.