June 2009

Half-Pint Tells All

Most former child stars who reveal the sordid details of their personal lives don’t grab my interest.  Exceptions have been Danny Bonaduce (Danny Partridge) and Maureen McCormick (Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!).  But I had loved, lived and breathed both The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch in their days.  (Don’t judge me! I was a kid and as we all know, kids have no taste!)  And now toss on the pile Little House on the Prairie’s Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls Wilder) who has written a new book called Prairie Tale.  …

Horror Beyond Belief

This week I read what may be the most disturbing piece of news I’ve ever read.  I’ve spent a good long while around radio and TV newsrooms and I’ve seen photos, video footage and news items so shocking that they made it into the psyches of those of us who witnessed them but they never made it to air.   So my characterization of this item isn’t to be taken lightly.  Sorry, I wish this was a set-up for a joke.  It’s not.  Read at your own risk. 

Anger Out of Control

A 58 year old woman has been found guilty of tossing a steaming hot cup of coffee in the face of a 30 year old man she believed had cut her off in a queue of people on their way to getting on a GO train.  …