Donna Wilkes
November 21st, 2012
At the Hollywood Show in Burbank held on October 8, 2011, was a reunion of the gals who had played Angel, the avenging streetwalker from high school, in the first three entries in the series. If you were a fan of the films (which I was not), it might have been cool to meet Donna Wilkes, Betsy Russell, and Mitzi Capture (listed in the order in which they played the role). Turns out, I had an interest in two of the three for other reasons (see the Betsy Russell posting here). Donna had kicked off the series playing the fifteen-year old at the actual age of 25. (Incidentally, if you are a fan of the series, you might enjoy the posting detailing how I met the guy who played the psycho necrophiliac killing all the hookers). Read the rest of this entry »
After returning from my amazing and activity-packed vacation in Germany, I was more than ready for a low-key Fall back in Ohio. And for the most part, I succeeded for a couple of weeks. The so-called low key portions of the month consisted of some DVD watching of the TV series Get a Life and some Halloween horror movies in preparation for some upcoming celebrity shows. I also tuned into music from Sunset Rubdown, Jarvis Cocker, Corner Laughers, El-P, Japandroids, Some by Sea, Surf School Dropouts, and Jack White. 
John Diehl is a local boy from Cincinnati who has a very long list of credits in the film and television industry. His most prominent role was that of Detective Larry Zito in Miami Vice, and he had roles of varying sizes in such films and shows as Escape from New York, Falling Down, The West Wing, Gettysburg, and ER. It’s actually amazing that amidst all of the work he’s getting that he even had time to appear at the Hollywood Show on February 11, 2012. 
Tuesday, July 10, 2012, would mark the seventh day of the road trip through New England that Bob and I had been undertaking, effectively bringing the first week of the trip to close. After this day, we’d still have another full week ahead. But as of this day, we were still in the southern half of the New England states, specifically in Waterbury, Connecticut at the American Motor Lodge. This location put us just a quick drive from our first stop of the day (besides Bob’s quick run-in to one of the many Dunkin’ Donuts in the region). 
What a fabulous room. Are all these your guitars? This place is bigger than our whole apartment. Can I get a drink of water? Look at this tub. Wanna take a bath? Hey, are you feeling ok…? Any Pink Floyd fan worth their weight in salt will then follow these lines up with singing… Day after day, Love turns grey, like the skin on the dying man… However, I will go one even further and follow it up with, “hey, I met that chick.” At least I met the chick who starred as that groupie delivering those lines to Mr. Pink Floyd in Pink Floyd: The Wall.