CHILD STARS OF BYGONE DAYS – PT3
BOBBY BLAKE (1933 – ) as Little Beaver (R) with Bill Elliott as Red Ryder He was born Mickey Gubitosi in New Jersey in 1933, a […]
Month: December 2017
Child stars of bygone days – PT2.
MATTHEW ‘STYMIE’ BEARD (1925 – 81) During the Depression years Americans found something to laugh about at the movies watching the antics of a group of talented children in the ‘Our Gang’ and ‘Little Rascals’ comedy shorts. One of those extraordinary kids was an […]
Child Stars of Bygone Days – PT1
This is the first article about the myriad child stars who graced movies and television since the very beginning of the movie industry until around 1980. I have left out the more recent ones because their stories are mostly still to be written. So, we shall take a trip down […]
BEST OF THE BEST – Pt1 – CARY GRANT
CARY GRANT Here is a brief look at the very best movies from the very best actors and actresses (in my opinion). If you have never seen any or all of these movies, I sincerely […]
BOYHOOD SCREEN CRUSHES
There were five of us who hung around together in East Fremantle in the fifties. We weren’t a gang or anything like that. We just kicked a footy together in the park across the road, played cricket in Fremantle, bashed golf balls wherever we could, went to the movies […]
BOYHOOD SCREEN HEROES
I was born in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1947, a ‘baby-boomer’ who grew up in that town during the fifties and sixties. My mates and I, like most young Aussie guys, attended the movies once a week (usually on a Friday night), followed by the footy or cricket or the […]
COREY FELDMAN – It’s time someone listened to him.
COREY FELDMAN Former child star Corey Feldman appeared on the Dr. Oz show on American television in November 2017 and named eighties star John Grissom as one of the men who allegedly sexually molested him when he was a teenager. Another child star, the late Corey Haim, was also molested, […]
KEVIN SPACEY – The end of the line.
KEVIN SPACEY On the heels of the Harvey Weinstein scandal has come another one involving super-star Kevin Spacey. There have been rumours for years that Spacey was gay, but few outside the industry suspected he might be involved in lewd acts with under-age boys or prone to sexual harassment behaviour. […]
TATUM O’NEAL – Victim & survivor.
Tatum O’Neal (1963 – ) After reading Tatum O’Neal’s 2004 autobiography titled A Paper Life, a curious thought came to me. If it had been, say, Darwin Porter who wrote her story, how much of it would be believed and how much would be attributed to his vivid imagination and […]
The Spencer Tracy – Katharine Hepburn Romance – PT2.
Actor George O’Brien was Spencer Tracy’s friend, but even he was disgusted with his pal’s treatment of Kate Hepburn. She would help get him to his hotel room, bathe him, cook dinner for him and get him into his pajamas. ‘Sometimes the ungrateful bastard would kick her out of his […]