Theodore Roosevelt and Me
Friday, December 20th, 2013
If Vice President Garret Hobart hadn’t died in office, we might have ended up with a very different country than we did. And Mount Rushmore would have looked wildly different. President William McKinley was forced to choose another running mate for his ticket in the 1901 election. After President McKinley took an assassin’s bullet six months into his second term, his Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, a former Governor of New York (and incidentally the uncle of future First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt) assumed the presidency. Read the rest of this entry »
There are times when I literally have no idea who I’m talking to when I meet a celebrity – and that often leads to a pleasant surprise. Case in point: Steven Bauer. He was set to appear at the Chiller Theatre show on October 27, 2012, and I knew from a cursory search of his career that he had played a major role in the 1983 Al Pacino film Scarface. In fact this was his first major film role. At that point I stopped researching him and just added him to my ‘maybe’ list. 
As far as 1980’s movie entertainment goes, there are certainly better comedies than Weekend at Bernie’s, but I sincerely can’t think of many that generate as many constant belly laughs. I had already gone out of my way to meet two of the main cast members and have them sign a photo from the film (you can see the first one 
You’ve probably seen many photos and mentions of Arline during the course of this website, and yet I don’t think I ever really explained exactly who she was or why she was at a lot of our family funcitons throughout the years. She is my Dad’s first cousin, the daughter of my Grandma Range’s sister Bessie, and Bessie’s husband Joe. So that makes her my first cousin once removed. Admittedly, this seems like a relatively distant relative (no pun intended) to be spending Christmas Eves with. 
It was exciting when I met Paul Michael Glaser back in