"I see salt and I see pepper, but I don't see a salt substitute." - Bob Wiley, "What About Bob?"
After our brunch with Caren Kaye, Renny Temple, and Adam Sadowsky (hereafter referred to as the IYM breakfast), David and I headed back to his place on the afternoon of Sunday, February 12, 2018. It was about 2:00pm and we took the opportunity to just browse some episodes of Maude, while we moved closer to a nodding off state. Eventually we caught our second wind and headed back out to grab dinner and see a show. Read the rest of this entry »
My friend David has a subscription to a series of plays put on at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, and had often remarked to me how he would regularly see an actress who he knew from a couple of Three’s Company episodes. One of them entitled Strangers in the Night from 1982 was a particularly funny and memorable episode, in which Jack Tripper serenades his girlfriend and ends up sending a message to a plump neighbor of hers named Bernice, who then shows up for a date with Jack. In short, Jack ends up making it right and stands up for this woman Bernice, when his actual girlfriend shows up and mocks her. The episode comes to a close when Bernice says the following heartfelt line to Jack: “Thank you for that wonderful lie.” Read the rest of this entry »
The end of any Sons of the Desert convention is always a little bit sad, and this one had been particularly fun. Bob had an idea to make this one a little more palatable though, as even after it ended on the morning of Sunday, July 6, 2014, with the standard Farewell Brunch and passing of the Pineapple and all that good stuff, it wasn’t really over. That morning David and I got up and ready at his place and were on the road around 8:30 back to the Loews. I bid farewell to David’s cat Flo, which turned out to be the last time I saw him, as he passed away later that month. David thinks this is the last picture of him as well. Read the rest of this entry »
Tracy Brooks Swope is an actress who appeared at the Hollywood Show in Los Angeles on January 7, 2017. She made it onto my list because she had starred in a prominent role in one single episode of The Partridge Family, the fourth season offering Queen for a Minute, in which her character Frankie, a friend of Laurie’s, tries out for the school basketball team and is rejected because of her sex, leading to a battle of the sexes among the Partridges. Tracy was both a find and beautiful performer, and as this was one of the earliest roles in her career, it was obvious that big things should have come. Read the rest of this entry »
