Archive for 2011
Buffy Girls, Won’t You Come Out Tonight?
Sunday, August 7th, 2011
As a long-time fan of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, I don’t generally pass up the chance to get autographs from or meet members of the shows’ casts. The Chiller Theatre Show in Parsippany, New Jersey, on April 30, 2011, brought along two such opportunities for these celebrity encounters. The first, and probably more impressive of the two, was getting to meet Mercedes McNab, who portrayed snotty-girl-turned-vampire Harmony Kendall in both series. Read the rest of this entry »
Protected: Manitou Springs, Pikes Peak, and Garden of the Gods
Saturday, August 6th, 2011Leo De Lyon
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
With a name like Leo De Lyon, is it any big surprise that his biggest claim to fame comes from his involvement with a show about a cat? If I had ever seen an episode of the popular Hanna-Barbera prime time animated series Top Cat, I wouldn’t have needed the autographed photo at right to determine that Leo De Lyon voiced two of the major characters from the series, Brain and Spook. Mr. De Lyon also provided voices for The Smurfs, The Flintstones, and the final animated classic under Walt Disney’s watch, The Jungle Book. Read the rest of this entry »