Surprised in Space
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
Meeting June Lockhart was a long time coming. After having met the bulk of her fellow cast members from the science fiction TV classic Lost in Space (see here), I wasn’t sure if I’d ever get to add her signature to my cast photo. And because of warnings I had heard that she wasn’t all that easy to get along with, I wasn’t sure that I was relishing the idea. As it turns out, our meeting went better than I would have ever imagined when she made an appearance (along with three other cast members of the show) at the Hollywood Show on February 12, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
It shouldn’t be too hard for you to picture me as an annoying, young boy – running around and pestering a group of counselors at summer camp. Well…as easy as you find it, Dean Garrett will find it even easier. Although he was never officially my counselor at Camp Woodland Altars, he was one of the staple counselors for all three years of my Junior Lodge days from 1981-1983. He is also part of my memory landscape that encompasses my very first Summer at Woodland Altars. I’ve already talked a bit about that particular week and you can read about it 
Yep, there were three of them altogether. It began when Mrs. Edna Garrett was assigned the task of cleaning the soiled underwear of Willis and Arnold Jackson in the first episode of the series. She lasted a full season and a half before moving on from the penthouse apartment of Diff’rent Strokes to the Eastland School for Girls on The Facts of Life. Then came Adelaide Brubaker. She was older than dirt when she took on the role for the next year and a half. Finally, Pearl Gallagher came to the rescue and remained with the Drummond family as long as they had a TV show and young Arnold managed to keep his lip shaved. Then, most likely, she slew them. 
It was most certainly pricey, but there wasn’t much of chance that I was going to drop Louis Gossett, Jr. off my list of celebrities to give money to when he appeared at the October 9, 2010, Hollywood Show in Burbank. Afterall, he was an Academy Award winner – having earned his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. He had also starred in the mini-series Roots – for which he won an Emmy award, and the films Iron Eagle, A Raisin in the Sun, Enemy Mine, and Jaws 3-D.