"You gentlemen aren't REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?" - Clara Thornhill, "North By Northwest"
His resume is pretty amazing at a glance: Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, Once Upon a Time in America, The Untouchables, Falling in Love, Night and the City, Mad Dog and Glory, Casino, Great Expectations, Analyze This… If you guessed Robert De Niro, you’d be absolutely…WRONG. But clearly there’s a common link in all of these films who goes by that name. However I’m actually referring to an actor named Clem Caserta. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ll be quite honest in confessing that until the movie The Runaways came out in 2010, I had never heard of the namesake band. It’s a little surprising considering that both Lita Ford and Joan Jett got their start in this little girl hard rock band from the late 1970’s. However, I’m not surprised that I don’t remember them from that time period as they never really took off in America, the way some of them did as solo artists. The lead vocalist from the band was Cherie Currie, who joined the group in 1975 at the age of fifteen. Read the rest of this entry »
I never took game shows very seriously, but for one exception. They were moderately entertaining fodder in the 70’s and 80’s, but once we got into the 90’s – with the brief exception of Who Want’s to Be a Millionaire and the occasional tuning into Jeopardy, I mostly steer clear of them. The one big exception was the game show Tic Tac Dough, which for some reason appealed to me so much in the early 1980’s that there was a span of a couple of months that I watched two episodes a night and physically documented how many questions I got right on each episode. Read the rest of this entry »