The Terrible Catsafterme

I really can’t offer much of a good reason for spending $50 on getting a signed photo plus and picture taken with 70s supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. It’s not like she’s done all that much in the world of entertainment. In fact, among the few shows on which she’s appeared, she was merely playing herself on episodes of Moonlighting and Just Shoot Me. But the name sticks out as a rather iconic emblem of beauty in the 1970’s – the decade that I come from – so I just felt I had to catch her at the Chiller Show in Parsippany, New Jersey, on Saturday, October 30, 2010. (I had actually bypassed her at the Hollywood Show earlier that Spring.) Read the rest of this entry »

I had gotten the signed photo of Kevin McCarthy (seen at right) back in the late 1990’s when my friend Bob picked it up for me at one of the Hollywood Collector Shows. Then I lamented about missing a chance to get a photo with him after he had appeared another Collector Show in 2005. Somehow I was afforded one final opportunity to get my picture taken with this 96-year-old legendary actor who had starred in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Death of a Salesman in 1951. Read the rest of this entry »

Edd “Kookie” Byrnes has appeared a several autographs shows that I have attended, and each time I saw him I bypassed him. It’s not that I had anything at all against Mr. Kookie, it’s just that I had never seen his starring  detective vehicle 77 Sunset Strip in which he played Gerald Lloyd “Kookie” Kookson III – so I just wasn’t particularly interested. And even though I’ve seen Grease many times, which included his role as dance show host and contest judge Vince Fontaine, that just wasn’t quite enough to tip the scales. Read the rest of this entry »

I first saw Vicki Lewis in the two episodes of Seinfeld in which she portrays George’s secretary Ada. Over the course of her first episode, George has sex with her, promises her a raise, requests one, and then ends up making less than she is. Her character was both charming and funny, puncuated by a playful line in which she tells George proudly “I’m good at what I do”. After I began watching NewsRadio, I appreciated Vicki Lewis even more in her role as Beth. What’s more, she also has a bit of a Disney connection as she is the voice of Deb in Finding Nemo.

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Besides seeing Pete Rose on the ballfield when I was a kid, I had only seen the baseball legend known as Charlie Hustle once in person. He was signing autographs in Las Vegas at a sports memorabilia show in 2005, and the prices were exorbitant. In addition, he wasn’t doing photos with fans, so I bypassed him entirely. But as luck would have it, the opportunity came round once again to get a photo with him in 2011. This time I had home-field advantage, as he was doing signings of his new documentary DVD 4192: The Crowning of the Hit King – along with assorted merchandise related to the movie – at three of our Kroger stores. Gambling issues aside, baseball players don’t get much better than Pete Rose. Read the rest of this entry »