Connie Stevens
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Connie Stevens has had a long and lucrative career in the movie, television, and recording industry. Her first big break came when Jerry Lewis cast her in Rock-a-Bye Baby in 1958, and blossomed from there into three big TV roles in Hawaiian Eye, Maverick, and Wendy and Me (with George Burns). Her attention turned to music in the early 1960’s and she scored big hits with the songs Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb with 77 Sunset Strip star Edd Byrnes, and with her solo hit Sixteen Reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
If one needed proof of my geekiness – or my devotion to the art of cinema, they need look no further than my choice of photograph that I chose to purchase from Rae Dawn Chong at the Chiller Theatre Show in Parsippany, New Jersey, on Saturday, April 30, 2011. Make no mistake, Rae Dawn, daughter of half of the comedy team Cheech & Chong, is hot. But I bypassed the photos from Commando or from Soul Man, or even The Color Purple, that might have shown her in a more voluptuous state. 
I can well remember Donna D’Errico all the way back from her Playmate appearance in the September 1995 issue of Playboy. She would go on to attain fame in the acting world for her role as Donna Marco first on the Baywatch spin-off Baywatch Nights, and then when that show was cancelled, she became a regular on the series Baywatch. Her fame was boosted even more when she became the wife of bassist Nikki Sixx from the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe for nine years. The acting roles have not exactly rolled in since then, but you might catch her in a small role in Austin Powers in Goldmember. 
In an effort to grab one more impressive batch of celebrity autographs and encounters, I made one last travel plan and booked one last flight of the year to leave on Friday, October 7, 2011, for Los Angeles, California, and visit the Fall Hollywood Show. It was going to be a short trip, so I tried to pack in as much as I possibly could. My friend Jimmy was on board to pick me up and tote me around for the weekend. (His wife Ellen was vacationing in New England that week). Unfortunately, David was heading to Disney World the morning that I was flying in and Bob had made plans to be in Lone Pine. So Jimmy and I came up with a few things to do to fill the odd hours where I wouldn’t be at the Hollywood Show. 
There’s a certain fascination that comes along with meeting a horror film star, particularly if said person is a mad killer or a personification of evil on screen. Even if you, as I, have never seen a single entry in the Hellraiser series – which now boasts nine entries in the series, some of the latter of which were direct-to-video releases – surely the image of this white-headed man with pins sticking out of his skull is familiar, and horrifying, to you.