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A-Z Challenge 2015: G is for Charles Gray!
I would like, if I may...to take you on a strange journey...I was vaguely aware as a very young man of the phenomenon known as The Rocky Horror Picture Show when my brother had a fling of enjoying it...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: H is for Cassandra Harris!
It's not really a surprise how much of this April 2015 A-Z Blogging Challenge is intersecting with my love for James Bond - since I'm picking the subjects and all. This time out we start with the 12th...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: I is for Ingrid Pitt!
I would have first seen Ingrid Pitt in the pages of Fangoria or Starlog magazine in an interview article - or possibly in a guest appearance on Doctor Who in the early to mid 80's. I thought she was...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: J is for Jewel Shepard!
I first noticed Jewel Shepard when I saw Return of the Living Dead in the theater. She looked wild - certainly wilder than the Southern Illinois girls I went to school with.After RotLD the next time...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: K is for Jack Kelly!
I first saw Jack Kelly during a 48 hour Maverick marathon that TV Land ran across one weekend some years ago. I taped several VHS tapes full, and really enjoyed the show - and both of its stars - James...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: L is for Lance Henriksen!
Lance Henriksen is one of my very favorite actors. I first took notice of him seeing The Terminator in the theater, where he had fun chemistry with Paul Winfield as the cops on the case. I know I saw...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: M is for Lois Maxwell!
Lois Maxwell was a marvelous presence playing M's secretary Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond movies. She holds the record for the most appearances in the series, beating out every Bond, all the M's,...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: N is for Nichelle Nichols!
Nichelle Nichols played Lt. Uhura in the Star Trek series in the 1960's. She helped show a future where race was no longer an issue in people's lives - and it was so important at the time that when she...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: O is for Olivia Newton-John!
I first saw Olivia Newton-John in Grease when my mom took me to see it at the theater - I was only just into double digits. I liked the girl next door aspect of her character Sandy - but I liked her...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: P is for Jack Pierce!
As a little kid, I was introduced to the Universal Studios Monster Movies thanks to a horror host named Seymour - out of Los Angeles but nationally syndicated and playing for me on Saturday nights on...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: Q is for Robert Quarry!
I would have first encountered Robert Quarry over at my cousin's house - I was spending the night and we were up late half watching an old vampire movie on Showtime - it was something called The Return...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: R is for Robert Forster!
The first time I really took notice of Robert Forster was when the ABC television network played the 1980 flick Alligator a year or two later - and I taped it on Beta and watched it with my friends...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: S is for Samantha Fox!
I first encountered London born Samantha Fox - as probably most people in America did - when her pop song "Touch Me (I Want to Be Dirty)" hit the charts. It was followed not long after by "Naughty...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: T is for Tawny Moyer!
I know exactly when Tawny Moyer showed up on my pop culture radar - I was sitting in a movie theater in Marion, Illinois in 1981- watching Halloween II. There are several lovely ladies in the movie -...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: U is for Ursula Andress!
t is the 21st post in the April 2012 A-Z Blogging Challenge - and I think the time has come to bring out a little of the Eye Candy we like to spotlight around here. And, why not make it a Bond Girl. In...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: V is for Jim Varney!
Wow, now here's a pop culture phenomenon for you. Jim Varney started shooting local and regional TV commercials as lovable dimwit Ernest P. Worrell in 1980. With each spot - for products as diverse as...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: W is for William Shatner!
I first had some awareness of the force of nature known as William Shatner half watching some Star Trek reruns after school as a youngster. But it was seeing Star Trek-The Motion Picture on the Big...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: X is for Francis X. Bushman!
I became a film buff at a pretty early age - and as a very young man I was even watching silent movies when they would be shown on my local PBS station on the weekends. So it's possible I first...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: Y is for Michelle Yeoh!
Michelle Yeoh was born in 1963 in Ipoh, Malaysia. As a young girl she studied ballet and seemed to be headed for a career in dance, but a spinal injury ended her dance career. She continued to study...
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A-Z Challenge 2015: Z is for Robert Z'Dar!
I was shocked and saddened to hear of the recent passing of Robert Z’Dar – so he took over the last post in this April 2015 A-Z Blogging Challenge.Robert Z’Dar first showed up on my pop culture radar...
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