The Culver Hotel, Marina del Rey, and On To San Pedro
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009, was a mostly leisurely day in southern California – at least relative to the weekend we had spent in Vegas and the upcoming final three days of my California trip. I even slept in a little bit and let Bob go down and grab his continental breakfast in the Culver Hotel before I followed. We posed for our pictures hanging out the windows of the famous hotel seen in several silent Laurel and Hardy films (detailed more here) and then headed out to see the Holy Cross Cemetery elsewhere in Culver City. Read the rest of this entry »
I first met Nicole Perez at Beavercreek High School during our sophomore year that began in the Fall of 1987. She and I were in Mrs. Joyner’s math class together, along with her friend 
I have never had any real particular affinity for Shannen Doherty. In more recent years, her name has become synonymous with trouble – as she had her issues with cat-fights and drunk driving charges. And somehow through the vixenish characters she has played throughout her career, particularly on Beverly Hills 90210, she has developed a reputation as a real Hollywood bad girl. So it was quite a pleasant surprise to find her so nice and attractive when I got the chance to meet her at the Hollywood Show on July 18, 2009. 
I can’t say that Cindy Pickett has starred in a huge number of successful films or TV series, although soap opera fans would cite her stint on The Guiding Light in the 1970’s as memorable. She has also done many guest starring roles in mostly dramatic TV series such as Magnum P.I., L.A. Law, and Murder She Wrote. But I personally have only seen two of the films in which she starred. The first was a rather crummy Stephen King thriller called Sleepwalkers. The second is one of the all-time great 1980’s films, a little opus called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.