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CELEBRI-TEASE!
TALES FROM THE 'WOOD
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CHAPTER ONE
IT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING!
How did this SoCal boy end up in Hollywood? With No Strings but Some Connections!
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CHAPTER TWO
SO MUCH BEFORE ME
How Family, Destiny and The Final Frontier determined my Life and Career!
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CHAPTER THREE
THOSE TRAGIC MOMENTS
Remembering JFK, Judy Garland, William C. Proctor Jr., and Leonard Nimoy on Mission: Impossible.
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CHAPTER FOUR
DISCO FOREVER, IF IT'S UP TO ME!
The 70s! First Cars, First Jobs...Bill Bixby, Shazam, Birds and Champagne!
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CHAPTER FIVE
FROM FEATHERS TO FUR
The Playboy Club, a Doggie, Madeline Kahn, Ethel Merman and Tab Hunter!
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CHAPTER SIX
GIRL, GIRL, BOY, GIRL, BOY OH BOY!
Barbra Streisand, Wonder Woman, Columbo, Bionic Woman and Elvis!
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CHAPTER SEVEN
THE BEST YEAR OF THE BEST DECADE--1978!
Star Trek, Tribbles, Mickey Mouse, Grease, Frank Sinatra, The Muppets, Celebrity Softball, and Judy Garland!
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CHAPTER EIGHT
I LIKED THE 1979 ME!
Oh, Rocky! Hard Country, Charlie Chan, Peter Ustinov, Michelle Pfeiffer, Angie Dickinson, Richard Hatch, Roddy McDowall.
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CHAPTER NINE
JUNK YARDS AND PARADISE!
One From the Heart (Las Vegas On Stage!), Maggie, The Two of Us, Table For Five, Gloria, and the lovely Betsy Palmer.
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CHAPTER TEN
IS STRUTTING AN OLYMPIC EVENT?
John Travolta, Sylvester Stallone, Kirstie Alley, Eve Arden, Barbara Stanwyck and L.A. Olympics.
It's My Life and You Missed it!
It's My Life and I almost missed it!
But Fate said “Nah!” which the World thought was “Ha!” and They All Laughed when I was handed a glamorous-adjacent career that took me from Hollywood to...Bakersfield?! Pasadena?! Santa Barbara?! The Caribbean! Okay, that's better, but I soon learned that rubbing elbows in Hollywood can be Deadly, Darling!
What if Dorothy had followed the Red Brick Road instead of the Yellow?
My own Journey to Oz answered questions I never thought to ask, and along the way I crossed paths with the most unexpected and fantastical characters: John Wayne, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Barbra Streisand, Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Sinatra and More!
And then there was the time I was Under a Table with Roddy McDowall!
I was just a So Cal kid who never thought much about Hollywood,
and never Dreamed I'd Work there!
And yet—with a Face for Radio and a Voice for Silent Films—
My Life is One Great Big Movie Musical!
LIFE IS ALL ABOUT PERSPECTIVE!
In the beginning you Know Nothing, in spite of what you think when you are young and growing up! It wasn't until I actually Lived much of My life that I understood...Life is but the Accumulation of moments in Time that Gather and Grow to Create Your Life in Experiences and Memories!
After Decades in The Entertainment Industry, I had Plenty of Both! More than Enough to Share! These are the Stories, the Moments that made up My Life in The Biz! The People, Places and Events that I would Not Know...until I Lived!
It is Written...and now in the stages of Editing and Formatting! The Writing was the Easy Part! This "Landing Page" is my way of providing You with the Latest Updates in the Process...and, when the Time comes, a Special Advance Preview of the Finished Product!
But, while we wait for that, Explore The Treasures of The BatCave Of Oz for a Hint of what you will read about in the stories--Every Picture Tells One, they say! And I have Hundreds of them!
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