The First Lady Who Never Was
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Jane Wyman has an incredible and illustrious career that included an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny Belinda, three Oscar nominations for The Yearling, The Blue Veil, and The Magnificent Obsession, the Walt Disney classic Pollyanna, a starring role in the Academy Award for Best Picture winner The Lost Weekend, and even a role in the Alfred Hitchcock film Stage Fright. After her retirement from the films, she even made a notable return in the early 1980’s in the primetime soap Falcon Crest. Read the rest of this entry »
The title may sound like a good name for either a dumb new sitcom or even an intense horror movie, but in reality it would appear to the average passerby as to my current relationship with former Playmate Erika Eleniak. While some may drool over her centerfold in Playboy or her role as Shauni McClane in Baywatch, neither of them mean all that much to me (although I’ll be the first to admit, she certainly was HOT during the late 80’s and 90’s). 
I might have been inclined to bypass the chance to meet and acquire an autograph of Robert Rusler had it not been for my four days of debauchery with my friend 
Setting aside the series of films that Roger Corman produced and directed – the numerous adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe classics (starring Vincent Price) such as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, and The House of Usher, classics such as The Little Shop of Horrors, and forgettable but enjoyable dreck like X, The Young Racers, and Gas-s-s-s, Corman has still left an incredible legacy of both actors and directors who owe much of their success to the opportunities he gave to them. 
One of the most blatant running gags throughout the National Lampoon’s Vacation series of films is the obvious fact that the Griswold children are played by different actors in every entry of the series, while the parents remain consistently Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo. This was not the original intention as Anthony Michael Hall was offered the role of Rusty for the second entry in the series European Vacation, but he declined for his role in Weird Science.