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The Tan Man and the Gay Blade

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

If you were to go to Google.com and type in “Tan Actor”, who do you supposed would be the number one response both in the Images or the Web entries? If you guessed George Hamilton, then you are as sharp as a gay blade. Mostly that is all the average Joe knows about George Hamilton. I knew just slightly more. I knew that he had portrayed Zorro (and his gay twin brother) in the 1981 comedy Zorro, the Gay Blade. I chose to focus more on the Zorro connection than the tan. Read the rest of this entry »

Protected: Chicago and the Comic Con

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

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Lance Henriksen

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

With his commanding deep voice, actor Lance Henriksen and has a very wide and varied filmography that began with small roles in such classic films as Dog Day Afternoon, Network, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Right Stuff, in which he portrayed astronaut Wally Schirra. The Terminator was originally written with Henriksen in mind to play the lead that eventually went to Arnold Schwartzenegger. He was still used in the film as one of the detectives. But Lance Henriksen is perhaps best known for his role as Bishop in the Aliens and Alien 3. His list of roles go on and on and if you can’t quite place him, you might be surprised at his impressive list of films. Read the rest of this entry »

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Phony!

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

Lee Arenberg was at the Hollywood Show on Saturday, October 9, 2010, as part of a reunion of actors from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. I didn’t care about that. Lee Arenberg had also guest-starred in all four of the Star Trek spin-off series: The Next Generations, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, and Voyager. I didn’t care about that either. But I’m guess that it was those qualifications that led him to charge $20 for a signed photo and an additional $20 for a photo op. But it turns out, those prices proved to be phony. Read the rest of this entry »