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Art Hindle: Guy From “Porky’s”

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Of little note at the Hollywood Collectors Show during the Summer of 1995 was my encounter with Art Hindle. Had I not been a fan of the teen skin-flick Porky’s, I never would have known who he was. He played Ted Jarvis, the Angel Beach police officer and older brother of Mickey. My meeting with […]

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Penn & Teller at the Rio ‘05

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

It had been eight years since I had been on the west coast, but it had been even longer since I had seen Penn & Teller perform live, ten years having passed since I last saw them locally at the Fraze Pavillion in Kettering. So the one request I made of Jimmy was that we go to Las […]

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Peter Bonerz

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

In the television world, there are a group of sitcoms that I strongly consider to be my shows. Some are obvious, some are not, and a few are very obscure. Among the not-so-obscure are the four major TV series starring one of my all-time comic idols Bob Newhart. The earliest of these series is The […]

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As a huge Honeymooners fan, I’ve always recognized that although Jackie Gleason and Art Carney always portrayed Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton respecitively, there were four actresses each who played their wives Trixie and Alice. I had always been puzzled as to why I had never seen one single photo of Sue Ann Langdon in […]

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June Allyson

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

June Allyson was an actress of high caliber, starring in many classic films including Little Women, Royal Wedding, The Glenn Miller Story, My Man Godfrey, and my personal favorite, a little-known short subject that also starred the Crane Twins entitled All Girl Revue. Of lesser acclaim was her role on The Love Boat, but what I […]

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