You wrote WHAT song?????
I’m always spellbound when an enormously influential person shows great humility, and also by that feeling of meeting someone who had...
Hearing It From Him Made All The Difference
If you grew up in So Cal, anytime from the 60s to the 90s, Jerry Dunphy was probably a household word. He was the pre-eminent local...
Hit A Pedestrian, Go Play The Piano
It’s really difficult to do, especially immediately, in that order. I had decades of making trips to play in the evening, navigating on...
Swank 101 With The Master Spy
Debonair? Elegant? Suave? Hear enough of those high-falutin’ words in a single sentence, and Roger Moore has to come to mind sooner or...
Of All The People To Help Me See The Light
Blind musicians always seem to develop their other senses so highly. Just witnessing them performing is to see the marvel of human...
A Synonym For Magnificent? Kiefer Sutherland.
What a marvelous actor, not just a good one. Unmistakable and unique in vision and voice. And despite the spanking resemblance to his...
The Beach Responds on 9/11
I hadn’t the faintest idea of how much I would learn on this day about the value of what I do (or try to do). What a reluctant, resistant...
A Private Ball With Sir Paul
A real live Beatle interaction? This blog isn’t about gossip per se or celebrity rumors or dirt. The people who happen to be famous in...
"Orson Says It's OK!"
Orson Welles was larger than life, but really truly—all joking and physical metaphors aside, he was far more so spiritually and mentally....
A Show With Goulet?? No Way!!
Yes way. Unplanned. Unrehearsed. Unexpected. This encounter went down at the Beverly Wilshire Main Bar, which, before being re-done and...
