Cagney…or Lacey…I Can Never Remember Which Is Which
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
I’ll admit it. I watched Cagney and Lacey at some point during its seven-year run throughout the 1980’s. It was a female cop show that tried not to exploit the fact that the cops were women, barring of course the telefilms known as The Menopause Years. Tyne Daly played one of the female police officers. Let’s just be nice and say she was the ‘less glamorous’ one. She was the tough, gritty brunette who had the bulk of the street smarts. I can never remember which was Cagney and which was Lacey. But she was one of them. Read the rest of this entry »
I was rather impressed with the initial four celebrities that were going to be attending the Superman Celebration in Metropolis, Illinois, over the weekend of June 11-12, 2011. I have already covered Tracy Roberts, Mark Pillow, and Alaina Huffman (as seen 
I can’t honestly say that I’ve ever seen a single episode of the TV sitcom Family Affair, but it’s on my current ‘want list’. It was quite popular during its five-year run, being nominated for numerous Emmy awards. The actress who played Uncle Bill’s eldest niece Cissy Davis was Kathy Garver, and I had the chance to meet her at the Hollywood Show on Saturday, October 9, 2010. 
I’m sorry, I just didn’t like him. In Alex Haley’s TV mini-series Roots, he played the central character Kunta Kinte, an African who was stripped away from his homeland and brought to the United States in slavery. He was amazing in the role and to coin a pun, I was rooting for him every step of the way. Later on, Levar Burton was the presenter of the children’s series Reading Rainbow. I’m all about rooting for helping kids read. It was probably when he graduated to the Star Trek series- playing Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation – that he became a jerk. Star Trek tends to do that to actors sometimes. Am I complaining too much?