Hollywood Obsessed Blog

Peter Foley's murders are all homages to other famous serial killers in the past.   Not only did William McNamara do his own stunts for Copycat (1995), but also spent time with Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist, in order to prepare for h…

Ever since the dusty hillside town of Hollywood, California became the Entertainment Capital of the World it has held the interest of people from around the globe. Whether it’s with the city itself, its stars, or the scandalous behind-the-scen…

DeMille was one of the 36 co-founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). President of DeMille Pictures Corporation, formed in 1925. Remade four of his own films including “The Ten Commandments” (1923 & 1956…

Happy Halloween friends! I hope you all had a safe and fun one.   So, I have a question to ask you....when exactly did Halloween become an adult holiday?  My memories of Halloween growing up in the mid-1970s are very different than the Ha…

'Dark Shadows' was taped and broadcast in black-and-white for the first year of its run. The jump to color was made on Aug. 1, 1967   The interior of the Collinwood mansion was built in a studio in New York City. The exterior was a real house…

Even though “Dynasty” hasn’t been on television for over 30 years my obsession with the 1980 iconic nighttime soap is still alive and kicking. For example, whenever I see a post on my social media or a news story about a series or …

Canadian actor, Gordon Thomson may be best-known worldwide for his role as the evil, yet dashing Adam Carrington from 1982 to 1989 on the ABC Television prime-time drama "Dynasty", one of the most popular prime-time shows in television history. This…

If you’ve listened to my latest podcast interview featuring director Randal Kleiser, you already know that my obsession with Hollywood started at the age of ten, when I went to see his first feature film - “Grease” - for the first …

“Peege” was Randal's USC master's thesis at USC in 1972. Randal Kleiser has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" signif…

Way before I moved to Hollywood I lived in fabulous Miami Beach for ten glorious years where I had neverending fun in the sun and lots more after dark. When I arrived in South Beach - in the early 1990s - it was a sleepy bohemian beach town populat…