Kelly LeBrock: It’s Purely Stupid
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
There are a plethora of great crummy films of the 1980’s that I spent my teenage years gawking over. Coming in near the top of the list was the teenage fantasy sci-fi film Weird Science. With my good friend Eric Hubble, perhaps no other film from this genre was more quotable. So I was understandably more than stoked to get the chance to meet the film’s star Kelly LeBrock, who played the painfully sexy Lisa, the creation of two geeky underdog teen-aged boys (like us), when she was slated to appear at the April 24, 2010, Hollywood Show in Burbank. She was perhaps even the highlight of the show for me. So you can just imagine my disappointment to learn that the thickness around that once-sexy waist had also apparently extended to the inside of her head. Read the rest of this entry »
David Naughton’s most well-recognized contribution to the world of pop culture came from his starring role in the John Landis classic An American Werewolf in London. While this film is in fact a fun classic, there are three other things that David Naughton did, each of which mean more to me than that film. The first is his appearance as recovering alcoholic Dick in a 1991 episode of Seinfeld. Even more so was his starring role in the hideous but beautiful Disney film Midnight Madness, which also starred Michael J. Fox. 
I was a little bit conflicted on how to refer to Harry Anderson in the title of this posting. On one hand, he was Judge Harry Stone on the often hilarious sitcom Night Court from 1984-1992. But on the other hand, he had a memorable recurring role on one of my all-time favorite sitcoms Cheers as Harry the Hat, the local magician and con man who often frequented the bar, usually swindling the patrons out of some cash. What never entered the mix was the role he played on Dave’s World, a sitcom based on the life of columnist Dave Barry that lasted four years. This was not because it was a bad show, it was just that I had never seen it. 
Step back Daniel-san! There be enemies lurking about! For those whom have enjoyed the Karate Kid movies, it is important to note that Daniel and the ever-lovable Mr. Miyagi could not have achieved the level of lovability and niceness that they did had there not been brutal enemies to offset their likeability. While attending the Hollywood Show in Burbank on Saturday, April 24, 2010, I had the opportunity to have run-ins with three of them, starting out with the slimiest of all…sensei John Kreese. 
…and I’ll bet we’ll be together for a million more. Those words, so sweetly sung by Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams, signalled that the next 22 minutes would be consumed by one of the funniest and most intelligent sitcoms of the 80’s. And the fact that the quintessential parents from Family Ties, otherwise known as Steven and Elyse Keaton, otherwise known as Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter-Birney (now just Baxter since the days of becoming a lesbian), were going to be present at the Chicago Celebrity Show on Saturday, September 25, 2010, was enough to tip the scales – if they needed tipping – on whether I was going to attend the show.