Bond Girls – Part 1
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
It took me a while before I was ready to start collecting the so-called “Bond Girls” – and by Bond girls, I am referring to those actresses who in some way served as a love interest to the fictional character James Bond in the films of 007. The reason it took so long before I’d entertain buying autographs of them is that I hadn’t really seen any James Bond movies. But over the past couple of years, I’ve at least begun to scratch the surface, and have enjoyed them enough to collect them and plan to watch them all in the future. Naturally, there have already been passed-up encounters that I’ve grown to regret – but no sense dwelling on that. Since reconsidering my position, I’ve already amassed more than a dozen encounters and will present them in groups; this is the first of these postings. Read the rest of this entry »
I hadn’t really been ‘into’ professional wrestling since I was a kid in the fifth and sixth grade, moderately enjoying some of it through junior high, and then forgetting about it and moving onto other things. Then inexplicably, at the re-introduction by my Dad, I started to take note again in 1996. While visiting him at his house on Gainsborough Road in Kettering, then nighttime WCW wrestling program Monday Nitro began to capture my attention again. The presence of some of the wrestlers from my youth – namely Ric Flair – initially sparked interest and then the storylines started to get really juicy. The mere flirtation then became a true interest bordering on obsession when the nWo first came to be. 
Who can forget such 1980’s classics as Valley Girl, My Chafufeur, or April Fool’s Day? C’mon…show of hands. OK, so almost no one. I do, because they were on frequent rotation on HBO. And I have a feeling there are a lot of others my age who were inundated by these or other similar low-quality-but-fun movies as youthful, impressionable boys. The common denominator among all of these films is that they all were lead by actress Deborah Foreman. She wasn’t just some bit player, she was the star!