Chuck McCann
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
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 – and 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 “Hollywood ’80” convention. I knew two things about Chuck at that time: that he had portrayed Oliver Hardy in a series of TV commercials (opposite Jim MacGeorge), and that he had been one of the founding members of the Sons of the Desert (as officially outlined in the Sons Constitution). Read the rest of this entry »
…coming from? Figuring out what made Janet Waldo tick might even be more difficult than finding the other Waldo in a crowd of greedy celebrities. If you are not familiar with the name Janet Waldo, I can bet that you’ve probably heard her voice at some point in your life. She provided voices for all kinds of cartoons, radio shows, commercials, and even a Disney World ride. Her most famous voice-over was probably for that of Judy Jetson in The Jetsons. She can also be heard in the The Flintstones, Wacky Races, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Josie and the Pussycats, The Smurfs, and The Chipmunks – just to name a small handful. Also of personal interest, she did voices on the Laurel and Hardy Cartoon series and The New Adventures of Superman (as Lana Lang). 
It was sometime in 1994 when an adorable young girl with a mouthful of braces, beaming with enthusiasm and energy, started working at the Beavercreek Kroger store. At the time, I was working in the front office as an office helper, and she was exercising the new right to start working limited hours when you were 14 or 15. Her name was Rachel Brehm and her brother Darius had also recently joined the troops. I thought perhaps she was the cutest, perkiest, and most driven young girl I had ever had the pleasure of meeting. 
It’s been quite a while since I’ve enjoyed an episode of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, but I used to really dig the zany blackout humor of the show when it was being broadcast on Nick at Nite during the last few years of the 1980′s. I didn’t really start my collection of autographs related to the show until I ran into Gary Owens at a Hollywood Collectors Show in 1995. I only had him sign a couple of notecards and finally got my chance to get a picture with him in 2007 – as seen 
Calling Dr. Bombay! Emergency! Come right away! I need a picture with you! It’s hard to believe that I had been in the presence of Bernard Fox twice already, but had never gotten a photo with him. It is also a bit ironic that of the three signed photos that I have of Bernard Fox, none of them are of him in what was possibly his most famous role, the warlock physician Dr. Bombay on Bewitched. He appeared in 18 episodes in this role (plus once in another part), later reprising it for the short-lived spin-off series Tabitha. The fact that I don’t own a signed photo from this series might give you some indication of how many important roles Bernard Fox has played.