"Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain." - George McFly, "Back to the Future"
September 1997 had been very good to me in the way of through-the-mail autograph collecting. As you have seen, I had a multitude of successes and only a handful of unanswered requests. The failures were Suzy Delair, Kathy Shower, Orson Bean, Jason Bateman, Barbi Benton, and Alyssa Milano. Quite an eclectic crew, wouldn’t you say? As October […]
I grew up watching syndicated reruns of Carol Burnett and Friends, and one of my favorite parts of the show was always waiting to see how long it would take for Tim Conway to crack up Harvey Korman in the show. It was like a game that we were all in on. Korman always did a remarkably good […]
As Lisa and I settled into our new apartment at the Peppertree Villas on 1455 Bell Pepper Court, Apartment 203, she and I went about our business of unpacking and decorating while awaiting the arrival of Summer - not that we didn’t continue to take part in numerous activites all the while. As we attended […]
President James A. Garfield is a name virtually lost among the United States Presidents. Having served just six months and fifteen days of office - the second shortest term of any President - he was shot on July 2, 1881 by a disgruntled Federal office seeker named Charles Guiteau. For the last two and a half […]
Betty Lou Gerson was a character actress who could be seen in numerous televsion shows throughout the 1950’s and 60’s - most notably in one of my favorites The Twilight Zone, in which she starred in the episode Ring-A-Ding Girl. But Ms. Gerson really sealed her fame when she was cast to voice the evil […]