Go-Go Girl
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
There were a couple of odd things about meeting Jane Wiedlin when she appeared at the Chiller Theatre Show in Parsippany, New Jersey, on April 30, 2011. The first was that although she is primarily known as the rhythm guitarist of the all-girl New Wave band The Go-Go’s (with whom she is pictured, second from left), she didn’t have a single photo of herself with the band to offer. The second odd thing was that every one of the photos that she did have for sale had been pre-signed by her. It’s as if she had gotten bored sitting there and just went ahead and signed all of them. As any autograph collector can tell you, part of the thrill of getting an autograph is watching it come to life right before your eyes. Read the rest of this entry »
Although Kim Darby never really disappeared from film for any signifcant length of time, to the casual filmgoer, it would appear that she made the film True Grit with John Wayne in 1969 (portraying a 14-year old at the age of 21), and then disappeared until 1985 when she starred as John Cusack’s mother in Better Off Dead. She was making films and TV appearances in the interim, just nothing I’ve ever heard of. Ten years later she’d show up yet again in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. 
