Chachi’s Ma
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
The big fans of Happy Days might recognize Ellen Travolta as Chachi Arcola’s mother Louisa in five episodes of the series. She’d continue to portray his Mom in the spin-off series Joanie Loves Chachi in seventeen episodes. And since she did such a great job playing the mother of Scott Baio in those two series, she was recruited to play the same actor’s mother for 70 episodes of his follow-up series Charles in Charge. That’s a lot of mothering Scott Baio. Read the rest of this entry »
I guess you could say that Chuck McCann and I go way back. All the way back to July 29, 1980, when he asked me – an eight-year old at the time – to borrow my pen so that he could sign something as he registered for the Sons of the Desert “
As a lifelong fan of Disney animation, it’s very unlikely that I’d be apt to pass up an autograph and photo op with one of the talented performers who lent their voices to one of the characters in any of the animated classic features. Especially when it’s a part as significant as the title role. And it doesn’t hurt that the person in question – in this case Irene Bedard who was the voice of Pocohontas in the film of that name – was quite a hottie. 
Ok, that wasn’t nice. But really that’s what their roles were in the Oscar winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I’m referring to the characters Candy and Rose, the two party girls who sneak into the mental institution in the film. This film being an Oscar winner and all, naturally I’d have an interest in anyone who appeared in it. The actresses behind the bodies were Marya Small (now going by the name Mews Small) as Candy, and Louisa Moritz as Rose. I got the chance to meet both of them at the Hollywood Show on October 8, 2011. 
I never watched Starsky & Hutch when it originally aired during the last half of the 1970s decade. But in the early half of the first decade of the 2000s, I picked up the first couple of seasons on DVD and quite enjoyed it. Part of the charm was the simple ‘time capsule’ effect of capturing the era so well. This wasn’t done on purpose of course, but nonetheless it intensified the show’s charm. I also just plain liked it. But at some point, I decided not to pursue collecting the whole series and eventually sold the DVDs I had after their initial viewing.