Kicking off June and a Summer Superman Celebration
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
I agree with the meteorologists and kick aside the silly Summer Solstice theory (placing the first day of Summer on June 21) that the United States adheres to. Summer begins when the months start beginning with the letter ‘J’ – discounting January of course. We transitioned very nicely from the rain that seemed to fall every single day of May to temperatures that hovered around 100 degrees in the early parts of the month. So as the month began on the Wednesday the 1st and I took Jamie home following our Colorado trip, I began to plan a few trips for the Summer months, whilst listening to Beck and the Crash Test Dummies on the iPod. Read the rest of this entry »
One of my favorites of the classic 80′s teenage boobie films is the 1984 movie Revenge of the Nerds. It fit right into the mold of some of the other raunchy comedies of the era, while possessing extremely likable characters and a good heart. So I was pretty ecstatic that the Hollywood Show that I attended on Saturday, October 9, 2010, was having a Revenge of the Nerds reunion of a half-dozen cast members. Had Don Gibb, the large fellow who played Ogre, shown up as he was scheduled to do, we would have had seven. This posting will highlight the first three. 
I knew that it would behoove me to bring along a large wad of cash to the Hollywood Show held at the Burbank Mariott Hotel and Convention Center on Saturday, April 24, and Sunday, April 25, 2010. The collector and celebrity show in Burbank must certainly be one of the largest in the country. The one on this date was the fifth one I’ve attended over the past five years (seventh total) and I must say that it was the best show I’ve seen to date. I usually pontificate on the greediness of the some of the celebrities, but I’m going to spare you that this time. After all, no matter if there were a few putzes in the mix, I came away happy…albeit much poorer. 
A pessimist such as I might look at the bad news that this posting will eventually get around to revealing: that I did not get to meet, nor did I get an autograph of Luise Rainer. But as I now reflect on the experience of just seeing her in person, I deemed that this event merited a posting of its own. It was on Sunday, April 25, 2010, that Bob and I attended a screening of The Good Earth at the Egyptian Theatre in Burbank. Actually, we didn’t even attend the screening itself. We just stopped in to see Louise Rainer.