Adrienne Barbeau Love Writes by Ronald Sklar Writers are taught to “write what you know,” so when actress Adrienne Barbeau took her first writing class, she wrote about being eaten alive by rats. “I had just made a low-budget horror film over in Russia,” she tells me from her California home. “I was supposed to … Continue reading
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David Cassidy Only Wants to Make You Happy
David Cassidy Only Wants to Make You Happy by Ronald Sklar Time for your reality check, kids: the classic 70s sitcom, The Partridge Family, debuted on ABC forty years ago. And its star, the teen-idol-extraordinaire David Cassidy, is now 60. So now you know how you feel, but how does he feel? “It doesn’t make me … Continue reading
Alicia Witt – Miss Witt’s Opus
Alicia Witt Miss Witt’s Opus by Ronald Sklar Alicia Witt has been steadily holding on to her day job – that of an extremely successful working actor – until she can make real her dream job: that of singer-songwriter. That goal is becoming ever more realized now that she has debuted her self-titled EP and its well-received … Continue reading
Reichen Lehmkuhl – Amazing Racer
Reichen Lehmkuhl Amazing Racer By Ronald Sklar photos by Eugene Gallegos Reichen Lehmkuhl (yeah, pronounce it like this: rye-kin lem-coal) turns heads for more than just his good looks. Since he bolted out of his modest starting gate in Cincinnati, Ohio, he’s crafted a unique resume as an Air Force pilot / actor / model / … Continue reading
Eve Plumb – Painting the Bistro Life
Eve Plumb Painting the Bistro Life by Ronald Sklar Eve Plumb is not your go-to Brady for back-in-the-day. With a nation still aching for any crumb, any plumb of trivia regarding the 1969-74 series, she is not biting. Not her problem. Although she has no visible gripes with the show that made her a pop … Continue reading
Steve Ward – Dispensing Tough Love
Steve Ward Dispensing Tough Love by Ronald Sklar Although Steve Ward makes his living matchmaking and love coaching, the most meant-for-each-other hookup of all may be Steve and VH1. Tough Love, the VH1 series based on his successful matchmaking business and value-added relationship philosophies, has become one of that network’s top ratings-getters. Viewers have responded … Continue reading
Robbie Rist Beats the Child Star Jinx
Robbie Rist Beats the Child Star Jinx By Ronald Sklar “If I met Peter Fonda tomorrow, a part of me would say, that’s the dude from Easy Rider,” observes actor/musician/voiceover vet Robbie Rist. Peter Fonda/Easy Rider; Cousin Oliver/The Brady Bunch: same difference. Rist played the iconic first cousin of the Bunch in the very last six … Continue reading
Susan Olsen – Gets Down with Her Bad Show
Susan Olsen Gets Down with Her Bad Show By Ronald Sklar “It was a spectactular turd,” says Susan Olsen. She speaks of the infamous Brady Bunch Variety Hour, which inexplicably ran on ABC-TV for a very short time in 1976 and 1977. Olsen played Cindy Brady, the youngest of the clan, on the original series from … Continue reading
Tommy James – It’s A New Vibration
Tommy James It’s A New Vibration By Ronald Sklar We know what you’re thinking. Not another Christmas album! But with this one, consider this HUGE plus: it’s a Tommy James Christmas album, and all the standards (like “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”) actually sound like a Tommy James song. Talk about your Christmas miracles! I … Continue reading
Greg Kinnear Has a Flash of Inspiration
Greg Kinnear Has a Flash of Inspiration by Ronald Sklar “I’m not gonna lie to you, it didn’t grab me,” Greg Kinnear says about his first hear-tell of the concept for the Universal film Flash of Genius (originally called Windshield Wiper Man). However, after doing his due diligence, Kinnear found the David-versus-Goliath story to be … Continue reading