Geoffrey Lewis
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Geoffrey Lewis has one of those faces that almost everyone will recognize – especially if you happen to be a fan of Clint Eastwood. Lewis has starred in no less than a half-dozen of Clint’s films, playing a variety of roles including his mortal enemy in High Plains Drifter and his goofy sidekick in Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way But Loose. You might also find him in films such as Fletch Lives, Tango and Cash, Maverick, The Man Without a Face, and The Devil’s Rejects. And this doesn’t even touch on the numerous sitcoms, westerns, and dramatic TV shows on which he’s starred. In all, he’s played over 200 different roles over the past 40 years. Read the rest of this entry »
Quinn Cummings was the adorable little girl who played daughter Lucy to Marsha Mason in The Goodbye Girl. For her incredible performance at the age of ten, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She later went on to star in the TV series Family. More recently she has carved out a successful career for herself as an inventor (all you mothers out there can thank her for the HipHugger) and now as a professional author. During my visit to Los Angeles on Saturday, July 11, 2009, I was pleased to learn that Quinn would be doing a book signing at Vroman’s Books for her new book Notes From the Underwire, a wonderful memoir of observationist tales about a variety of silly things that she has encountered (and done) during her everyday life. 
As I continue to check off my list of meeting cast members from the original Star Trek series, Walter Koenig, who portrayed Pavel Chekov, was the most recent in my short list of encounters. Although my first two meetings (with George Takei and 
I am a Twilight Zone nut. Yes, I know…I am a nut about many things, but The Twilight Zone is one of my all-time favorites. I know, I have many all-time favorites. But we’re getting off the track here. Although my collection has never really advanced much along these lines, I had hoped to collect autographs from anyone I encountered who had starred in an episode of this great anthology series of the early 60’s. It is particularly nice to obtain such a signature on a photograph actually from the show. 
…And she certainly wasn’t the first. Back in the mid-nineties, I used to hear it on a weekly basis it seemed. Having high public exposure when I worked at Kroger, customers galore would often tell me of my resemblance to Kiefer, some concerned that I might actually be a vampire as he was in The Lost Boys. But the first and only celebrity to date to tell me that I looked like Kiefer Sutherland was Erin Gray when I met her at the Hollywood Collectors Show in California during my Summer visit of 1997.