Roger C. Carmel and Richard Deacon were mainstays of episodic television from the 1950’s through the early 1980’s. Roger was best known for his role as intergalactic criminal Harry Mudd in two episodes of the original Star Trek series. Roger made many one-shot guest appearances in TV sit-coms and dramas throughout his career, including memorable …
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This week’s challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “afterwards”. “Good morning, Wally. Good morning, Beaver. Your father is eating first. I’ll make your breakfast after Ward’s.”
My wife has celebrated 28 birthdays since we met. Last year, we enjoyed a wonderfully intimate concert by banjo impresario Tony Trischka at the elegant, historic Elkins Estate, around the corner from our house. Two years ago, we spent a wonderful birthday in New York City. We went to a huge street festival on Sixth Avenue, wandered around …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “spent”. (This is one of two illustrations I did for this topic. HERE is the other.) “If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.” Will Rogers
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “spent”. (This is one of two illustrations I did for this topic. HERE is the other.) “I once spent a year in Philadelphia. I think it was on a Sunday.” W. C. Fields
This week’s challenge word on Illustration Friday is “spooky”. (This is the third illustration I’ve done for this week’s word. HERE is the first and HERE is the second.) After a failed attempt at becoming an opera singer in the style of Paul Robeson, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins settled on playing piano and singing standard blues. …
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “spooky”. (This is the second entry for this topic. Click HERE for entry number one and HERE for entry number three.) Careful observation of this family has revealed the members to be creepy, kooky and mysterious. Not to mention spooky. The conclusion is they are all together ooky.
Lindsay Lohan? Lightweight! Paris Hilton? Amateur! They can’t compare to Scotty Beckett. Scotty made his debut in the Our Gang comedies playing Spanky’s best friend for a little over a year until he left to star in feature films. He was replaced by Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer. From 1936 until the early 1950s, Scotty was one …
Wallace Wood began his influential career in art as an apprentice under several of his own influences, Will Eisner and George Wunder, who had taken over the popular comic Terry and the Pirates from creator Milton Caniff. Wallace, a graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts. soon moved on to famed horror comic publisher …
When she was just sixteen, blond-haired, blue-eyed bombshell Barbara Pepper was chosen to be a Ziegfeld Girl on Broadway. That was the springboard she needed to start her career in show business. Soon, she and friend, fellow Ziegfeld girl Lucille Ball, were chosen to join the Goldwyn Girls, as contract group of female dancers at …
