The Terrible Catsafterme

Of all of the cool cats in the history of screen cinema, I don’t think there were any much cooler than the character of John Milner in American Graffiti. As Terry the Toad said in the film, “Hey, nobody can beat him, man. He’s got the fastest…” to which Bob Falfa (played by Harrison Ford) coldly replies “I ain’t nobody, dork.” Turns out even the future Indiana Jones couldn’t beat Milner in the final auto race showdown. The actor who brought this cool character to life was Paul Le Mat. Read the rest of this entry »

I got back to the Links condo from my excursion to Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday, July 29, 2009,  just in time to meet up with everyone and head out for our 5:30 pm dinner reservations at the Miyabi Japanese steakhouse.  While I had been gone, two brothers named Stephen and David, who were friends of Ashleigh’s from home, drove down to meet up with her. Somehow Ashleigh had managed to get everyone’s approval for them to stay there the night before. I still hadn’t even met them and they didn’t go to dinner with us. Read the rest of this entry »

Bob and I had visited Atlantic City, New Jersey on Monday, but we didn’t really get to see a lot of New Jersey until Wednesday and Thursday that week. The morning of Wednesday, June 17, 2009, we had seen the remainder of the sites we need to see in Philadelphia, had lunch in Bristol, Pennsylvania, and then made the short trek to our first destination in Jersey, the capitol building in Trenton. Just as we were arriving at around noon, I got some irritating news from home from Heidi who was feeding my cats. Ashleigh had had friends over after the debacle of my previous trip. This put a bit of a damper on the rest of the day for me. Read the rest of this entry »

Amidst the much-touted reunions of the Happy Days and Brady Bunch cast, one other mini-reunion that particularly excited me occurred at the July 18, 2009, Hollywood Show. There quietly nestled in the back of the show, three cast members of The Bob Newhart Show assembled to meet the fans. Bob Newhart himself has always been a personal favorite and I absolutely adore his first classic sitcom that chronicled the deadpan Dr. Robert Hartley and the world of crazies that surrounded him. The show ran for six seasons from 1972-1978 and has become legendary as one of the all-time great sitcoms. Read the rest of this entry »