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I’ll be quite honest in confessing that until the movie The Runaways came out in 2010, I had never heard of the namesake band. It’s a little surprising considering that both Lita Ford and Joan Jett got their start in this little girl hard rock band from the late 1970’s. However, I’m not surprised that I don’t remember them from that time period as they never really took off in America, the way some of them did as solo artists. The lead vocalist from the band was Cherie Currie, who joined the group in 1975 at the age of fifteen.  Read the rest of this entry »

I never took game shows very seriously, but for one exception. They were moderately entertaining fodder in the 70’s and 80’s, but once we got into the 90’s – with the brief exception of Who Want’s to Be a Millionaire and the occasional tuning into Jeopardy, I mostly steer clear of them. The one big exception was the game show Tic Tac Dough, which for some reason appealed to me so much in the early 1980’s that there was a span of a couple of months that I watched two episodes a night and physically documented how many questions I got right on each episode. Read the rest of this entry »

I must admit that at the time that I met Scott Wilson, I hadn’t yet actually seen the 1967 film In Cold Blood, a disturbing picture based on the novel by Truman Capote. But based on the strength of the fact that he was in it, I decided to put him on my list of autographs to pick up at the HorrorHound event in Cincinnati on March 22, 2013. I was even more pleasantly surprised that amidst all of the overblown photos of Mr. Wilson from his current hit TV series The Walking Dead – a show which I still have never once seen – there was a very iconic photo on his table, one that I had seen time and time again included in the Robert Blake section of the Maltin-Bann book Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals. Read the rest of this entry »

There is an extremely broad age range of folks – like me – who grew up watching Sesame Street on PBS. Those who did most certainly have many memories of their group of TV friends, although those groups may vary depending on whether you started watching it when it first began in 1969 or just started watching this year. Except of course for the characters Bob Johnson (played by Bob McGrath) and Susan (Loretta Long), because they are the only two human actors who have been with the show for its incredible 45-year run. Read the rest of this entry »

You may recall that back during the Summer of 2012, I was able to meet a trio of gals who had been the ‘final girls’ in three of the Friday the 13th films. One of these girls was Kimberly Beck, and she had also had some other interesting film appearances, one of them being in the Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball comedy Yours, Mine, and Ours. I ended up purchasing a photo of the cast from the film and had her sign it. But there was a lot of space still on that photo, and I hoped that at some point I’d be adding some additional signatures. Read the rest of this entry »