"It was so pitch, you couldn't see your hand behind your back." - Stan Laurel, "Atoll K"
I first met Mike Minges in our tenth grade gym class in 1987. He was an average, normal-looking and normal-acting guy with a good sense of humor. He was always nice to everyone around him and well-liked by all the other students. There was no hidden agenda or inherent weirdness that characterized many of my friends […]
Rolfe Sedan had an extremely distiguished career as a character actor playing more than 250 different roles from the early 1920’s to the late 1970’s in both film and telelvision. Among his most notable roles was his role as Mr. Beasley the postman on The George Burns - Gracie Allen Show, but what really piqued my interest […]
Following our visit with Mildred Kornman in San Diego on Tuesday, October 4, 2005, Jimmy and I hightailed it back to Hollywood to check off a few more items on my list of things to accomplish. You wouldn’t think it would take to long to go from one place to the other, both of them being hubs […]
At left is a photo that I snapped (instead of having the good sense to actually get into) of several members of the Springfield Towed in a Hole Tent of the Sons of the Desert surrounding Laurel and Hardy co-star Virginia Karns Patterson in the Fall of 1986. Clockwise from the kneeling girl, we see Carla […]
Lance Patak was one of a dozen or so guys that held the unenviable rank as being my best friend for an unspecified period of time. Our time as comrades was during the bulk of 1988. Oddly enough, we first met on bad terms when I made some wisecrack about Lance’s appearance during Miss Joyner’s math class at Beavercreek […]