Calling Doctor Bombay!
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
Calling Dr. Bombay! Emergency! Come right away! I need a picture with you! It’s hard to believe that I had been in the presence of Bernard Fox twice already, but had never gotten a photo with him. It is also a bit ironic that of the three signed photos that I have of Bernard Fox, none of them are of him in what was possibly his most famous role, the warlock physician Dr. Bombay on Bewitched. He appeared in 18 episodes in this role (plus once in another part), later reprising it for the short-lived spin-off series Tabitha. The fact that I don’t own a signed photo from this series might give you some indication of how many important roles Bernard Fox has played. Read the rest of this entry »
Those were the words that I was hoping not to hear when I approached Frank Vincent at the Chicago Hollywood Celebrities Show on Saturday, September 25, 2010. Because this might mean that I was about to be whacked for even thinking about asking for a deal. Vincent’s looks and voice just ooze quintessential gangster in such films as Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Casino – all classic Martin Scorsese films starring Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. In two out of the three, Mr. Pesci makes mince meat out of Frank Vincent, but in the third one, the tables are turned and Vincent destroys Pesci with a baseball bat. I had just one question to ask: did the two of them get along in real life? 
By the time The Mod Squad ended its five-season run, I was just about ready to turn two years old. So I never got to watch it during its first run, nor did it ever seem to air in reruns in my area, and I’ve never checked out the DVDs. I’m sure that its hip, mod, whatever-you-call-it style would seem wildly antiquated these days, so I will probably never choose to explore it. But as a kid, I liked the title (which sounded like my favorite Saturday Morning program The Monster Squad), I liked the MAD Magazine parodies of it, and I was familiar with it gracing the cover of TV Guide, which I collected for a short time.