Betsy Gay
Friday, March 16th, 2018
Words can never adequately describe the thrill of meeting an former Our Gang member whom I’ve never met before for the first time. It plays tricks on the mind to realize that a kid who was in such an iconic group of motion pictures, particularly ones that have been solidified in my psyche for the past forty years, is now the very same person standing directly in front of me, now fully grown, in living color, and three dimensional. In the current day there are so few Little Rascals left with us, that it adds an even greater dimension of poignancy. Read the rest of this entry »
After our brunch with Caren Kaye, Renny Temple, and Adam Sadowsky (hereafter referred to as the 
My friend David has a subscription to a series of plays put on at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, and had often remarked to me how he would regularly see an actress who he knew from a couple of Three’s Company episodes. One of them entitled Strangers in the Night from 1982 was a particularly funny and memorable episode, in which Jack Tripper serenades his girlfriend and ends up sending a message to a plump neighbor of hers named Bernice, who then shows up for a date with Jack. In short, Jack ends up making it right and stands up for this woman Bernice, when his actual girlfriend shows up and mocks her. The episode comes to a close when Bernice says the following heartfelt line to Jack: “Thank you for that wonderful lie.” 
The end of any Sons of the Desert convention is always a little bit sad, and this one had been particularly fun. Bob had an idea to make this one a little more palatable though, as even after it ended on the morning of Sunday, July 6, 2014, with the standard Farewell Brunch and passing of the Pineapple and all that good stuff, it wasn’t really over. That morning David and I got up and ready at his place and were on the road around 8:30 back to the Loews. I bid farewell to David’s cat Flo, which turned out to be the last time I saw him, as he passed away later that month. David thinks this is the last picture of him as well.