Failed Celebrity Encounters and Other Events of Spring 1992
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
I aimlessly roamed through the Spring of 1992. College student, father, partier, opportunist, music buff, Brady Bunch fan, Robert DeNiro idolizer, Kroger bagger, Laserdisc player owner. That was me. It was back to the drawing board of figuring out life after I had come to the conclusion that the job offer from Keith had been a hoax. Miraculously, I hung on to him as a friend, a deal which was sweetened by the fact that he was constantly buying me CDs, Laserdiscs, and taking me to rock concerts. Read the rest of this entry »
I had no particular fondness for or attraction to David Hedison, who had starred in two James Bond films as Bond’s ally Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die and License to Kill. I was a bit more interested in the fact that he had portrayed the central protagonist in the 1958 horror film The Fly alongside Vincent Price – although I have never actually seen the film. My friend Bob had picked up a free signed photo of Hedison from that film and passed it onto me. 
Outside of her role as Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati, Loni Anderson didn’t do all that much that was noteworthy in the entertainment realm. She has parts in films like The Lonely Guy, A Night at the Roxbury, and the female lead in critical bomb Stroker Ace, alongside her future husband Burt Reynolds. But that role, along with a classic pin-up pose from the 1970’s, ensured that she would remain an icon for more than 30 years – and I was pretty excited to get the chance to meet her at the Hollywood Show in Burbank, California, on Saturday, February 12, 2011. 
It was a little over two years ago that I finally watched the TV series The Addams Family, and in fact watched both seasons of it in its entirety. For the most part, I enjoyed it, but it struck me that without the subtle, optimistic character of Gomez – played by John Astin – the show wouldn’t have been even half as good as it was. From that point on, I became a fan of Astin, and recalled seeing him in other roles throughout the years in such films as National Lampoon’s European Vacation and Freaky Friday and appearances in TV shows such as Night Court and The Twilight Zone.