The First Disney Visit of 2012
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
It was my first Disney visit of the year, but it wouldn’t be my last. Nonetheless, like any of my visits to any Disney theme park, it was a unique, fun, and awesome experience. It came on Sunday, February 12, 2012, following another very fun and exhausting day in the Los Angeles area. I had stayed at David’s house the night before and we were up bright and early and ready to begin our day at the butt crack of dawn. We left the house in Burbank around 7:45am and met Jimmy at Knott’s Berry Farm, where we would have breakfast at Mrs. Knotts Chicken Dinner Restaurant. I had the Mrs. Knott’s Chicken Hash to kickstart the day. In a bold and dramatic move, I spilled my entire glass of water across the table. Read the rest of this entry »
Neither I nor Patti LaBelle are strangers to Billboard’s Number One Hits charts. I’m a student and collector of music, while Ms. LaBelle actually had two songs hit the coveted number one position. The first one came in 1975 when the song Lady Marmalade by LaBelle, the band she was fronting before become a solo act, topped the charts for a week in March. The second came as the result of another collaboration – this time with Michael McDonald. The song On My Own capped out at number one for three weeks in June in 1986. 
I’ve gotta be honest: when it comes to Sally Kirkland, I knew almost nothing about her. But when it comes to the Academy Awards, I know plenty. And there was a point – in 1987 to be exact – when Ms. Kirkland’s performance in the movie Anna garnered her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In case you didn’t hear me, I said Leading Actress! But circling back around, when it came to that particular movie, I knew virtually nothing either. 
As I entered the heavy metal era wholeheartedly in the late 1980’s, there was one movie that epitomized the metal-headedness of our generation of morons and that was Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. While Keanu Reeves, who portrayed Ted, went on to bigger and maybe-not-so-much-better things, his partner in headbanging time travel, Alex Winter, who was Bill, is now signing autographs at the Chiller Theatre Show in Parsippany, New Jersey, on April 30, 2011. 
I wasn’t all that familiar with Jackie Joseph, but after taking the time to look into her career before I got the chance to meet her, I found that her vocation had taken her all across the dial in film and on television. She was present as part of the Josie and the Pussycats reunion (for which she voiced Melody) at the Hollywood Show on February 12, 2011. I took more interest in her TV appearances in shows such as The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Doris Day Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., The Brady Bunch, and Newhart.