I had the privilege of interviewing 98-year-old Elaine LaLanne. If you are a Baby Boomer, you will remember watching her and her husband Jack LaLanne on television for 34 years. He was one of America’s first fitness exercise gurus, and he always started his show doing jumping jacks. Elaine is still going strong at almost 100. Watch our delightful and super-inspiring … [Read more...]
Tied Up in Knott’s: A Daughter’s Remembrance of her Father Don Knotts
Actress Karen Knotts, who was born in 1954, is the daughter of Don Knotts best known as Deputy Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith Show. It was one of my favorite shows as a kid as it was with many Baby Boomers. She wrote a book called Tied Up in Knotts which is available on Amazon as an audiobook. She also regularly performs it live as a one-woman show. I saw it at the Fine … [Read more...]
Can You Believe the Album “Thriller” is 40 Years Old?
I attended my 50th high school reunion earlier this year and am constantly amazed at how fast time flies by. None of us know how much time we have left. If we take care of ourselves and don’t have an accident, we have the potential to live long and active lives. We can only hope, right? Michael Jackson's iconic album is 40 years old Michael Jackson was 24 years old in … [Read more...]
On Location Tours Virtual Friends Tour of Manhattan – Review
Friends: The Reunion streams on HBO Max and, for a while, it was all over social media. Have you ever wanted to know where some of the locations for the show were filmed? On Location Tours has added a virtual tour of Friends locations that were shot in New York City. Friends was filmed at Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank, California but most of the establishing shots were … [Read more...]
Odd Woman Out By Actress Melanie Chartoff: Interview
Actress Melanie Chartoff kissed a lot of frogs, dealt with her parent’s dysfunctional relationship, and finally got married at the age of 65. She is the author of Odd Woman Out: Exposure in Essays and Stories and goes full-out on her tumultuous love life and passionate ambitions to make it on stage and screen. You may remember her as one of the stars of Fridays, an ABC … [Read more...]