What? Paul Willson Went to McDonalds?!
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
I consider the TV show Cheers to be one of the all-time classic sitcoms, and it hovers right near the top of the list of my favorites. So when I heard that the actor who portayed the unsung sardonic, chubby dude who typically sat at the end of the bar by Norm and Cliff was going to be at the Hollywood Show in Burbank on February 11, 2012, I moved up to the top of my priority list for this show. He might not of been swarmed with fans and had lines out the door, but there’s no doubt that he was one of the big highlights for me. Read the rest of this entry »
I guess her claim to fame is that she was the leading actress in Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Comedy, a 1976 adult film which was obviously based on the fairy tale. But I didn’t know Kristine DeBell until she entered the regular mainstream and starred as the incredibly cute and endearing counselor A.L. in the Bill Murray summer camp romp Meatballs. There were also plenty of TV appearances for Kristine in the late 70’s and early 80’s, chief among them Night Court, Eight Is Enough, CHiPs, and Barnaby Jones. 
But I took them away from all that and now they work for me. My name is Charlie. Wait. No it’s not… and no I didn’t. These gals weren’t angels, but they were both pretty darn nice. I’m referring to two of the female co-stars from the movie Police Academy. They were actually present as part of a reunion of actors and actresses from the series at the Hollywood Show on April 2, 2011. Sadly, the reunion didn’t have the impact that it might have if Bubba Smith and George Gaynes had shown up as scheduled. Donovan Scott was also there, but I snubbed him since he didn’t have any photos from Life with Lucy. I’m kind of regretting that. 
Dean Stockwell was a good celebrity to meet. I’ve been curious about his career ever since I saw that he had starred as a young man in an episode of the original Twilight Zone (A Quality of Mercy). I had no idea at that point exactly what he went on to do. Eventually I learned. Actually by the time he was in the Twilight Zone, he was already somewhat a veteran of the silver screen, having begun his career years earlier as a boy of nine. Some of his early roles included Anchors Aweigh, Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, and Gentleman’s Agreement. 
Just One of the Guys was one of those teen movies of the mid-80’s that didn’t quite rise up to the quality of the John Hughes films of the era, but was still quite fun nonetheless. Considering that the movie poster itself pictures a topless, sexy Joyce Hyser, I think that most adolescent boys were hoping for a bit more raunchiness than the film ended up having, but in the end, the film stayed more accesible to the teen mainstream by keeping a PG-13 rating.