Archive for July, 2007
Daniel Stern
Friday, July 20th, 2007
I had really enjoyed Daniel Stern’s performance in Barbra’s Wedding, a story about an out-of-work actor and his wife living next door to Barbra Streisand on the day that a wedding was taking place at her home…and they weren’t invited. He was also the author of the play and I found it very funny and extremely entertaining. The fact that we were in the front row and that the actors were practically performing in our laps didn’t hurt either. I also really liked Stern’s work in City Slickers, Home Alone, and as the narrator on the TV show The Wonder Years. Read the rest of this entry »
My First Meeting with Dorothy – Hollywood ’80
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Unfortunately, it has been five years since I have actually been able to see former Our Gang star Dorothy deBorba. Because of health reasons, namely that she requires an oxygen tank, she has been unable to travel from her home in Livermore, California for the last several years. Our association goes way back to this particular day at the Hollywood ’80 convention. I had already met Dorothy earlier that afternoon while she was being interviewed before the Culver City parade. It was there that I plunked myself down between her and Butch Bond to tune into what they were saying. Read the rest of this entry »
Inside John Glenn ’72
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
The John Glenn house that is, not the astronaut. It’s random picture time again!… featuring a nice array of color slides of me and my family in our natural habitat, the house at 1849 John Glenn Rd. in Dayton, Ohio. The slides were dated March of 1972, and the calendar in the background of the first shot below verifies that they were indeed taken in March. To see more info about this glorious house in which I spent the first two years of my life, click here. Read the rest of this entry »
Denny Laine: He Played with Paul…and That’s Huge!
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Ex-Beatles, while often sharing songwriting credit with a partner, usually didn’t need to share lead vocal duties with anyone. John had his Yoko…and Paul had Denny Laine. Denny sang lead vocals on no less than six songs on various Paul McCartney and Wings albums, including one of my favorites, The Note You Never Wrote on Wings at the Speed of Sound. In all, Denny Laine played guitar on seven Wings records and two of Paul’s other solo albums, Tug of War and Pipes of Peace. Outside of Paul himself and his wife Linda, Denny Laine was certainly the most recognizable of the Wings band members. Read the rest of this entry »