Growing Pains
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
As sitcoms of the 1980’s go, I’d have to say that Growing Pains was one of the most subdued and wholesome of them all (despite Kirk Cameron’s goofy sidekick named Boner). However wholesome it was, once Kirk Cameron became an Evangelical Christian, he began to insist on the removal of anything in the series that might be construed as racy. This would also eventually lead to him alienating most of the cast, and having fellow cast member Julie McCullough fired from the show. In the meantime, fat jokes directed at daughter Carol Seaver (played by Tracey Gold), would eventually lead to the actresses real-life battle with anorexia. It was all the dreamstuff that Hollywood True Stories are made of. Read the rest of this entry »
It was ironic that Catherine Mary Stewart was appearing at the Flashback Weekend Horror Convention in Chicago on Sunday, August 14, 2011. I hadn’t even known that I would be attending this show beforehand – when I chose to show Jamie the film Weekend at Bernie’s exactly one week earlier. Catherine Mary Stewart had portrayed Gwen, the summer intern that Richard (Jonathan Silverman) developed a debilitating crush on. In fact, the first time he approached her for a date, the only words that would come out of his mouth was the non-sequitur “my aunt is very sick.” 
The final celebrity that I met at the Hollywood Show in Burbank on Saturday, October 9, 2010, proved to be one of the nicest. It was only after an awkward situation – in true Brady Bunch fashion – reared its head that I found this out. The actor Jerry Houser was never in a single episode of The Brady Bunch – but he did play a prominent role in Brady history. He first became Mr. Marcia Brady – that is Marcia’s husband Wally Logan – in the spin-off TV film and series The Brady Girls Get Married aka The Brady Brides. He then continued the role as Marcia’s incredibly lucky husband in A Very Brady Christmas and the short-lived dramedy The Bradys.