Long Lost Uncle
Thursday, February 27th, 2014
I’ve already confessed my love and infatuation with the early-1970’s TV Saturday morning TV series Land of the Lost. Actually I did it here, if you’d care to check it out, when I met the little girl Holly from the series (no longer a little girl as an adult Kathy Coleman of course). I’ve even come to love it more in recent days as I work my way through the first season all over again. Sometimes, I see things or hear music cues that literally send chills down my back because this show is so intimately intertwined with life as a little boy. Read the rest of this entry »
It wasn’t cheap by any means, but another of the many highlights of the Chiller Theatre show was getting the chance to meet Bronson Pinchot on October 27, 2012. For a short time, I though the show Perfect Strangers was utter tripe, but soon I was lulled into its journey into ridiculousness as the uptight Larry Appleton (played by Mark Linn-Baker) did his utmost to tolerate his long lost ‘cousin’ from the fictional island of Mypos, Balki Bartokomous. I think anyone who religiously watched the show couldn’t help but get taken in by and repeat the many catch phrases from this pair: watch and learn, get out of the city, you bet your bibby babkas, and don’t be ridiculous. And who can count how often we’ve done the dance of joy. 
Let me start out by saying that it was a big deal for me to meet Andrew McCarthy at the Chiller Theatre Show on October 12, 2012. It is true that it was one of many great celebrity encounters, but in retrospect this was quite a biggie. For a child of the 80’s such as me, meeting a member of the Brat Pack is beyond cool (this is my second meeting with a member of the exclusive group following