Whatever Happened To ...
A lot of you have written in lately asking of the whereabouts of Canadian 1976 Olympic medal-winning figure skater Toller Cranston.
According to the current March issue of 'Yoo-hoo! Canada,' the former figure-skating icon has spent the past twenty years in self-imposed exile, living quietly and discreetly in the artistic community of historic San Miguel de Allende, Mexico under the assumed name of 'Jimmy Osterberg.'
His days are spent painting on huge canvases and decorating his home - both in a bold but restrained form of minimalism. Nights are spent fronting a Stooges tribute-band named 'Forgotten Boy.' Due to the lack of ice-rinks in this cental Mexican village, the sixty-year-old legend of 'Dance on Ice,' no longer skates.
But whatever artistic medium he is working in, you can be sure that Mr. Cranston continues to look fabulous.
posted by Sonny Drysdale at 10:17 AM
5 Comments:
So *that's* where Ricardo Montalban's hat went to...
True story: My cousin was Toller's skating partner back is their very amateur days. It took her a while to realize that his 'lack of attention' had nothing to do with her figure - he was just artistic. After all these years, the utterance of "Toller" brings a wistful look to her eye and a slight blush.
Pretty cool. Your cousin isn't that London girl who just won gold is she?
Two years ago when Toller was in London promoting his latest book, I skated the loop at Storybook Gardens with him a few times and he was still very agile, if somewhat grumpy.
I begged him to do a triple axel near the Three Little Pigs enclosure but he snorted something rude and blew me off.
good be happy
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