Meeting Darth Vader
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Who here doesn’t love the voice of James Earl Jones? Raise your hands. Okay, none. It certainly is one of the most recognizable voices in the world, whether listening to him on my King James Version reading of the New Testament on CD, seeing him as a lawyer in Picket Fences, watching on the big screen in Field of Dreams, hearing him voice Mufasa in Disney’s The Lion King, or identifying him with possibly his most famous role: the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars series. Read the rest of this entry »
It doesn’t appear that we did much in the late Spring of 1978 after we had moved into our new house on Winterset Drive on April 8 – a date which corresponded exactly to Denise’s second birthday. Naturally, Mom and Dad were spending a good deal of this time getting our belongings unpacked and the house put together. We didn’t completely gloss over Denise’s birthday though. The 8th was a Saturday, so I’m not sure when we held the gathering of family but it may have been on the 9th, in conjunction with the family assistance we were getting from Grandma, Bev, Diana, and Darlene. I was very proud of the gift that I got for her: a 45 RPM record of Boogie Shoes by KC and the Sunshine Band, a song that she responed to on the radio. I was disappointed that she didn’t respond more enthusiastically. 
If only…if only…if only they could all be like Willie Aames, life for the autograph collector and celebrity encounter freak would be so much easier. Although I wasn’t the biggest of fans of Eight Is Enough, it is one of those shows that I would typically catch if I was home in front of the TV when it came on during the late 1970’s. Willie Aames played Tommy, the middle of the three boys in the Bradford family.