The Hacksaw
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
I was honestly never really a fan of “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan, who recently became the oldest active wrestler following the retirement of Ric Flair in 2008. I thought that if they were going to have someone ‘represent’ the spirit of patriotism, they could have gotten someone who didn’t seem mildly retarded, carried a 2′ x 4′ around as a weapon, and whose battle cry was the mono-syllabic “Hoooo!” But nevertheless, Jim Duggan has become a wrestling legend and it was nice to meet him when he appeared at the Wizard World Comic Con in Chicago on Saturday, August 13, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m not sure why the name Tom Savini was so familiar to me. Most likely it’s because I’d hang around the magazine rack at Lofino’s grocery store while my Mom did her shopping in the mid-1980’s and invariably I’d leaf through the latest issue of Fangoria, the light reading devoted to all kinds of blood and gore as seen in the movies. Tom Savini was one of the masters. In fact, Corey Feldman can be seen reading one such magazine in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, and an article about Tom Savini is clearly visible – quite an obvious, but neat tribute to the man who had done so much to advance the bloody cause of the film’s perenniel killer. 
So get this. Actress Linda Purl, in one of her early roles, portrayed Gloria on the TV show Happy Days. Gloria was the occasional girlfriend of Ron Howard’s character Richie on the show. Then she would return to the series eight seasons later to play Ashley, who was Fonzie’s steady girlfriend for that year. One wouldn’t automatically assume that Linda Purl was involved in some complex and bizarre plot to stalk her former TV boyfriend Ron Howard merely based on that information. 
If you were to go to Google.com and type in “Tan Actor”, who do you supposed would be the number one response both in the Images or the Web entries? If you guessed George Hamilton, then you are as sharp as a gay blade. Mostly that is all the average Joe knows about George Hamilton. I knew just slightly more. I knew that he had portrayed Zorro (and his gay twin brother) in the 1981 comedy Zorro, the Gay Blade. I chose to focus more on the Zorro connection than the tan.