Leatherface
Sunday, November 21st, 2010
The bad thing about being an actor behind the mask of a crazed serial killer is that you are quite expendable. Just like the changing Jasons in Friday the 13th movies and the different Michaels of the Halloween series, the guy behind the Leatherface mask (or should I say human skin?) of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre varied from film to film. The good thing about it is that you get to charge $25 to autograph a photo of yourself from an iconic film in which you did very little except swing a chainsaw and drool. Read the rest of this entry »
As a fan of David Lynch and his offbeat psychological TV drama Twin Peaks, which was broadcast for two seasons from 1990-91, I must say that I was extremely impressed with the number of cast members from the series that the Hollywood Show was able to assemble for their Fall show, which I attended on October 9, 2010. Although I adore the series, I wasn’t quite into it enough to pick up some of the actors who played minor characters: those like Lenny von Dohlen (Harold Smith), Michael Parks (Jean Renault), Chris Mulkey (Hank Jennings), Walter Olkewicz (Jacques Renault), or the most obscure of all, Connie Woods (new girl at One Eyed Jacks). 
Henry Hill didn’t become famous the easy way. As far back as he could remember, he always wanted to be a gangster. We may never have heard of Henry, who professes that he has never killed anyone, had it not been for the Nicholas Pileggi book Wiseguy, which was later adapted by Martin Scorsese into the film Goodfellas. Hill, who was portrayed by Ray Liotta, was the central protagonist in that film. Henry Hill himself, who had been ejected from witness protection for his role in numerous crimes while under federal protection, served as a technical advisor on the film. 
It’s been quite a while since I’ve enjoyed an episode of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, but I used to really dig the zany blackout humor of the show when it was being broadcast on Nick at Nite during the last few years of the 1980’s. I didn’t really start my collection of autographs related to the show until I ran into Gary Owens at a Hollywood Collectors Show in 1995. I only had him sign a couple of notecards and finally got my chance to get a picture with him in 2007 – as seen