The Hollywood Show and Other Adventures in Burbank
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
It was a most lucrative visit to Culver City the morning of Saturday, October 9, 2010 – what with finding all of the new Little Rascals locations and all – but I was in a hurry to get to the Hollywood Show at the Burbank Mariott Hotel and Convention Center. This was to be my eighth collector show in Burbank, sixth at this venue, and second of the year. This was the reason for my whirlwind California trip; I was happy to be here but also in a bit of a rush to get signatures from and photographs with a lengthy list of celebrities before we had to move on to the next activity of the day. Read the rest of this entry »
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I really need to watch more James Bond films. So many of the hot Bond girls from these films regularly frequent the autograph shows that I attend and I’d like to have more of an appreciation for them. Lana Wood is one such gal. She portrayed the large-busted Plenty O’Toole in the 1971 Bond flick Diamonds Are Forever. This role came hot on the heels of her appearance in Playboy, a career move of which her older sister Natalie Wood disapproved. Natalie had worked to foster Lana’s career when Lana was a young girl. 
Ashleigh and I pressed on at the Magic Kingdom as we creeped into the afternoon hours of Friday, September 17, 2010. She and I had done some bouncing around from place to place that morning, taking full advantage of the early, uncrowded hours – while also satiating the hunger of her pregnant little belly. But by noon, we were ready to proceed pretty much our normal route, finishing up in Adventureland and moving back into Frontierland. We started out at the Country Bear Jamboree, whose next performance was beginning just as we walked up to its front doors. 
When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way. From your first cigarette, to your last dyin’ day. And that goes double for Russ Tamblyn, the actor, dancer, and choreographer best known for his role as Riff, the leader of the Jets in the Oscar winner for Best Picture in 1961, West Side Story. Tamblyn had appeared at one of the Hollywood Collectors Shows at the Winter Hollywood Show this year along with fellow cast members from that film. But during his appearance at the same show on Saturday, October 9, 2010, he was there as part of the Twin Peaks reunion. In that TV series, he portrayed Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, the eccentric psychiatrist that murder victim Laura Palmer was seeing just before her death.