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inktober52: waffle (part 2)
inktober52: waffle (part 1)
DCS: tony todd
For many years, I collected autographed photos of celebrities. “Celebrities,” I will admit, is a relative term and can only be defined as “someone who more people have heard of than have heard of me.” I obtained a good portion of my collection by attending local collector shows and conventions where promoters would gather together …
inktober52: polar
DCS: maylia fong
Budding actress Gloria Chin was in the Paramount Pictures commissary when she was spotted by the wife of Hollywood screenwriter and producer Sidney Buchman. Gloria was quickly cast in the 1947 film noir Singapore alongside Ava Gardner and Fred MacMurray. Gloria was also given a new name — the exotic-sounding mononym “Maylia.” Favorable reviews led …
inktober52: landmark
DCS: teri garr
On the advice of a numerologist, Terry Garr changed her name to “Teri,” a name containing no repeating letters. She was told this would lead to a successful career. Teri appeared as an uncredited go-go dancer in a number of youth-oriented film and television productions, including Shindig!, Hullabaloo, Shivaree, as well as a musical special …
inktober 2024: series 1 week 5
The final week is upon us and the final entry in the “Regional TV Horror Hosts” series is Philadelphia’s Stella. In September 1984, Philadelphia NBC affiliate KYW-TV continued a local, but near-forgotten, tradition. They decided to follow the national broadcast of Saturday Night Live, with a locally-produced show with a home-grown host. Tapping Philly actress …
inktober 2024: series 2 week 4
The second series — “Horror Actors of the 1940s” — concludes with George Zucco. British actor George Zucco gained fame as an upper-crust, but often villainous, character in dozens of dramas, mysteries and serials of the 30s and 40s. He was cast as the nefarious “Professor Moriarty” in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1939. …