Diane Chambers In the Flesh!
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
I’d have to say that of all of the celebrity encounters during my California visit on Saturday, October 9, 2010, perhaps none of them thrilled me as much as meeting Diane Chambers herself, Shelley Long. For the last 25 years, Cheers has been one of my all-time favorite shows. I used to video tape every episode that was broadcast and watch them repeatedly on the VCR in my bedroom. A day without Cheers just wasn’t a day at all. Shelley Long, of course, held the pivotal role of Diane for the first five season of the show and then returned for a special appearance in the final episode. Read the rest of this entry »
My Mom and her boyfriend Bob Chandler finally decided to get hitched on Saturday, September 29, 2001, at 5:00pm. It had been a long time coming. Mom and Bob met on New Years Eve, as 1989 transitioned into 1990 at the Libation Lounge. Oddly enough, my Mom thought that Bob was another guy that looked like Bob – and was also named Bob! – and denied him his first request for a dance. We will mercilessly leave out any reference to the Bobbsy Twins. After running into each other now and then and the bar, they finally had their first date about a month later. 
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 
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.