"Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain." - George McFly, "Back to the Future"
I had never found Thora Birch all that attractive based on her roles in the few movies I had seen in which she starred: Now and Then, Ghost World, and the Academy Award winner American Beauty. But when she emerged from backstage for a press photo op after her performance in the star-studded reading of Casablanca that I saw on my birthday in 2005, I couldn’t believe how good she looked. Read the rest of this entry »
That title is nearly longer than the text here! In an effort to be complete, here are some additional snapshots and photos of my parents and me as we appeared around March or April of 1972 while living in our small abode on John Glenn Road in Dayton. These are an addendum to the photos previously published here. All of the photos with me in them are actual snapshots, while the ones of my parents alone are taken from some snappy color slides.
The date of November 22, 1963 lives in infamy in the hearts of all Americans who were around to see the assassination of our 35th President John F. Kennedy. He will live on in history as an effective leader who was restoring good faith in our goverment when his life was taken at the age of forty-six. He led the country through turbulent domestic issues in Cuba and Vietnam, Civil Rights reform, and founded the Peace Corps. He was also the first President to have previously won a Pulitzer Prize and remains the youngest man ever elected to office. It is difficult to predict what may have come to pass if he had lived through his entire term and went on to a second one. Read the rest of this entry »
Just when I didn’t think I had anything of the kind, I discovered a few snapshots nestled into one of my Grandma Range’s photo albums. Actually, the photos were taken at Bill and Dottie’s house in New Lebanon for a joint celebration of my birthday and my cousin Rob’s birthday, which happens to fall 13 days after mine on October 15. Rob was turning seven and I was turning four. In truth it was probably Rob’s celebration, but since I was a little upstart – they threw me a bone and put my name on the cake and let me help blow out the candle. Read the rest of this entry »