Laurel & Hardy Location Scouting Rounds Out the 2014 Convention Trip
April 20th, 2018
Watching Laurel & Hardy films has been such an integral part of my psyche ever since the age eight, that devouring them through sight and sound is just a part of how my pay my respects and reverence to the films. Certainly meeting the folks who worked in them has been one of the great joys in my life. Sadly they are almost all gone now, but coming in at second place as a way to actually become ‘part’ of these films is to visit the places where they shot them. More specifically, to actually stand in the presence of buildings and landmarks that can be seen in the films. Read the rest of this entry »
There had been several occasions when Tom Holland, director of the memorable and fun 80’s horror flick Fright Night as well as Child’s Play, The Langoliers, and Thinner, and writer of the 1980’s staple Cloak & Dagger, had been scheduled for conventions and had cancelled or not shown up or I had missed him or whatever, and he had been on my radar for a long time as director of that memorable flick. But it wasn’t until I checked out his filmography again while looking forward to (or at least hoping for) his appearance at the Cincinnati HorrorHound on March 24, 2018, that I noticed that he had actually made a cameo appearance in Psycho II as Deputy Norris. In fact, I also discovered that he had actually wrote the thing! 
I’m not sure when the exact moment was, but at some point I decided that to begin expanding my celebrity encounter realm from sitcom starring roles, to guest stars and character actors who appeared in sitcoms. If you took the time to map that out, you’ll not that it exponentially expands the ultimate number of people this would encompass to roughly infinity. If the size of my celebrity pool was a walnut before, it has now expanded into a moon (but not actually taking the time to do this, I’m not sure which moon). This of course makes the hobby more fun, perhaps more obscure (which to me is more fun), and of course, more expensive. This seemed like an appropriate introduction for this particular celebrity, as it encompassed all three of these criteria.