Hollywood Obsessed Blog

'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…

The title has triple meanings as it refers not only to Clark's hometown, the only name Lois calls him, and the idea that this is "smalltime" in his career. Therefore, you could think of the title of the show referring to Clark by name.   In e…

Even though Charlie Chaplin filmed some of his greatest movies, one hundred years ago, some of the locations used in those classic silent picture masterpieces still exist here in Los Angeles - and you can visit them whenever you like for FREE! …

In 1969, the Chaplin Studio in Hollywood was named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. It was the second movie-related site to receive that designation, after Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Charlie was the founder of United Artists along with Mar…

It's hard to believe that it’s been 2 years since actor Lorenzo Lamas, his beautiful fiancé Kenna Scott and I met for the first time. All because they were fans of my Hollywood Pandemic Tour social media posts! No, for real. You see,…