If you’ve listened to my latest podcast interview featuring director Randal Kleiser, you already know that my obsession with Hollywood started at the age of ten, when I went to see his first feature film - “Grease” - for the first …
“Peege” was Randal's USC master's thesis at USC in 1972. Randal Kleiser has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" signif…
Way before I moved to Hollywood I lived in fabulous Miami Beach for ten glorious years where I had neverending fun in the sun and lots more after dark. When I arrived in South Beach - in the early 1990s - it was a sleepy bohemian beach town populat…
The title has triple meanings as it refers not only to Clark's hometown, the only name Lois calls him, and the idea that this is "smalltime" in his career. Therefore, you could think of the title of the show referring to Clark by name. In e…
Even though Charlie Chaplin filmed some of his greatest movies, one hundred years ago, some of the locations used in those classic silent picture masterpieces still exist here in Los Angeles - and you can visit them whenever you like for FREE! …
In 1969, the Chaplin Studio in Hollywood was named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. It was the second movie-related site to receive that designation, after Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Charlie was the founder of United Artists along with Mar…
It's hard to believe that it’s been 2 years since actor Lorenzo Lamas, his beautiful fiancé Kenna Scott and I met for the first time. All because they were fans of my Hollywood Pandemic Tour social media posts! No, for real. You see,…
Falcon Crest was located in the fictitious Tuscany Valley, which was the Napa Valley in Northern California. The series was filmed at the Spring Mountain Winery in St. Helena. The show premiered on Friday, December 4, 1981, on CBS at 10:00 PM EST/9…
Cinephiles who live in the LA area are fortunate to have the American Cinematheque - located at the Aero Theatre and the Los Feliz Theatre - to enjoy some of their pretty amazing screening events throughout the year that would make any classic film …
When Norma Desmond says to the guard at the "Paramount Studio" gates, "Without me there wouldn't be any 'Paramount Studio'" the words could apply to Gloria Swanson herself, as she was the studio's top star for six years running. Montgomery Clift wa…