The 80th Annual Academy Award Obit List

I watch the Academy Awards last night, like I do every year, and waited for the segment that I enjoy watching every year. This is when the Oscars salute the people who have taken the Final Taxi in the last year. Here is the list if you missed it: Roscoe Lee Browne Barry Nelson Kitty [...]

The Man On The Beatles’ Abby Road Album

While going to the craft store can be a pain if you are a guy, I recently went with my wife and found something that I had to have. They were frames that were made to specially fit my old vinyl LPs. I was able to take some of my favorite album artwork and put [...]

Robocop’s Sgt. Reed – Robert DoQui

 Do you remember those Robocop movies? Robert DoQui, a stage, screen and TV actor whose rough-edged character roles included Sgt. Warren Reed in three Robocop movies has taken his Final Taxi at age 74. Born in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1934, DoQui attended Langston University on a music scholarship and was a member of singing group [...]

Howard the Duck Creator – Steve Gerber

Ok- So I am in my forties and I still read comic books. Look how many of them are being turned into movies. Even one is listed on Time Magazine’s list of “the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. ( Alan Moore’s Watchmen) Being a comic fan I was shock to see [...]

Roy Scheider – “You’re gonna need a bigger boat….”

In one of my jobs I work for a company the plays movies in parks and other outdoor settings. For BackYardMovieParties.com we get to show films at a lot of birthday parties and last year we were playing in a rather unusual place. We were on Lake Tuscaloosa showing this movie to all of these [...]

General Hospital’s Nurse Amy – Shell Kepler

In the legendary days of the TV soap opera, General Hospital, most people will recall the names of “Luke and Laura’. There was another character that was popular during that time, Nurse Amy Vining. She was played by actress Shell Kepler. Kepler, who is best known for her work on General Hospital, has taken her [...]

Eva Dahlbeck, actress in many Ingmar Bergman films

I was surprised last year when film maker Ingmar Bergman died. Many of his films touched my life. There was a magic in his direction and the crew he worked with. The lighting was perfect and so were the actors. Many of them he used in numerous films.  One of those actresses Bergman used was [...]

When I graduate, I’m gonna be a Wolfman- Manuel Padilla Jr

Can you believe this is the 35th  anniversary of George Lucas’ American Graffiti?  My sister took me and a group of teens from our church going to see this and we had no idea what it was about. No one knew that it would launch a 50’s revival in music, films and TV.  ( Despite [...]

The Chase Has Ended For Barry Morse

Do you remember the TV show called The Fugitive? It was a television series that aired on ABC from 1963-1967. David Janssen starred as Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent man from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who was falsely convicted of his wife’s murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, [...]