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‘This Whole Thing Is Not Normal’: Inside the ‘Baywatch’ Reboot Casting Call With 2,000 Wannabe Lifeguards
On a recent Wednesday, 2,000 wannabe lifeguards lined up to audition for Fox's reboot of 'Baywatch.' Here's what it's like inside the casting call.
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No One Believed These Robert Conrad Stories! Until They Watched This!
May 7, 2026 #RobertConrad #WildWildWest #TinselTownLegendsNo One Believed These Robert Conrad Stories! Until They Watched This!
They tested EIGHTEEN actors for The Wild Wild West. Paul Newman was the dream. After seventeen auditions failed, a five-foot-eight high school dropout walked in on his lunch break and landed the role that changed television forever.
Robert Conrad went from earning $1.87 an hour on a Chicago loading dock to commanding $5,000 a week as television's most dangerous leading man. He fractured his own skull performing stunts, severed a vertebra in his neck, and refused to let a stunt double replace him on any set he ever worked on. Then a battery company dared him to sell toughness to America, and he turned one simple challenge into the most iconic commercial of the 1970s.
This is the full story of the milk truck driver who invented his own name during a secret teenage elopement, fought his way from $250-a-week bit player to network television legend, and spent sixty years proving that size has absolutely nothing to do with how much fight a man carries inside him.
What was your first memory of Robert Conrad — was it James West, Pappy Boyington, or that battery commercial? Tell us in the comments.
No One Believed These Robert Conrad Stories! Until They
Robert Conrad - Wikipedia
I don't believe it.
Can you imagine holding a mouse's tail? Your hand would be ground beef in seconds. And you'd have rabies or hantavirus in days.
AND, since a mouse's tail is hairless, whatever was tied to it would quickly slide off. Evolution...a creature that lives in dumps and chaotic nests, has a tail that won't hang up when it slithers through. Mice and rats can also unhook their jaws, to get through any opening the size of their upper skull.
Nice try, to the storyteller...but my BS detector's going off.