Meet Me in Room 222…And Bring Plenty of Cash
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
I’m not sure what it was about the cast members of the early 1970’s TV show Room 222, but they all had a mutual handler who insisted on charging $40 for the ‘show special’ of getting a signature and photo op with the cast members who were present at the Hollywood Show on April 2, 2011. I had never even seen the show (although I purchased the DVD set in advance of meeting them), so I really didn’t know the cast. Still, I probably would have picked up all of them had the prices been reasonable. Present at the show were Michael Constantine (Mr. Kaufman), Karen Valentine (Miss Johnson), Judy Strangis (Helen Loomis), and David Jolliffe (Bernie). Denise Nicholas, who played Miss Loomis, had been scheduled to attend, but canceled. Read the rest of this entry »
The big fans of Happy Days might recognize Ellen Travolta as Chachi Arcola’s mother Louisa in five episodes of the series. She’d continue to portray his Mom in the spin-off series Joanie Loves Chachi in seventeen episodes. And since she did such a great job playing the mother of Scott Baio in those two series, she was recruited to play the same actor’s mother for 70 episodes of his follow-up series Charles in Charge. That’s a lot of mothering Scott Baio. 
I guess you could say that Chuck McCann and I go way back. All the way back to July 29, 1980, when he asked me – an eight-year old at the time – to borrow my pen so that he could sign something as he registered for the Sons of the Desert “
As a lifelong fan of Disney animation, it’s very unlikely that I’d be apt to pass up an autograph and photo op with one of the talented performers who lent their voices to one of the characters in any of the animated classic features. Especially when it’s a part as significant as the title role. And it doesn’t hurt that the person in question – in this case Irene Bedard who was the voice of Pocohontas in the film of that name – was quite a hottie. 
Ok, that wasn’t nice. But really that’s what their roles were in the Oscar winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I’m referring to the characters Candy and Rose, the two party girls who sneak into the mental institution in the film. This film being an Oscar winner and all, naturally I’d have an interest in anyone who appeared in it. The actresses behind the bodies were Marya Small (now going by the name Mews Small) as Candy, and Louisa Moritz as Rose. I got the chance to meet both of them at the Hollywood Show on October 8, 2011.