Those Acting Gigs… A Slippery Swope
Monday, February 26th, 2018
Tracy Brooks Swope is an actress who appeared at the Hollywood Show in Los Angeles on January 7, 2017. She made it onto my list because she had starred in a prominent role in one single episode of The Partridge Family, the fourth season offering Queen for a Minute, in which her character Frankie, a friend of Laurie’s, tries out for the school basketball team and is rejected because of her sex, leading to a battle of the sexes among the Partridges. Tracy was both a find and beautiful performer, and as this was one of the earliest roles in her career, it was obvious that big things should have come. Read the rest of this entry »
Bob and I got up on the morning of Thursday, January 5, 2018, grabbed some good ol’ continental breakfast in our fancy Hollywood Super 8 Motel, and then continued our quest of finding a smattering of sitcom locations in the Los Angeles area. We had had fun and good luck doing this the day before, and this day promised to continue the run. Wanting to capture virtually any sitcom location I could find for my Facebook Sitcom Kaleidoscope page, and being a big fan of The Brady Bunch, there were numerous cool sites related to that show on this day’s docket, beginning with the first one. 
So these winter trips to California… old hat by now? Not by a long shot. There’s just so much to see and do, and with a little planning beforehand, it’s possible to keep busy and enjoy myself every minute of every trip. Yes, of course it was the Hollywood Show that brought me out there again in dead of winter, but once again I was able to stretch the visit to a four-day extravaganza of sorts. It won’t be the last Winter L.A. trip nor will it be the last one in 2018, but it was a unique one in its own right. 