Actor and “The Masked Singer” panelist Ken Jeong is the newest person to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. If you’ve walked the real neighborhood of Hollywood, it’s not as glamourous as you might expect. It’s a touristy strip with “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (not live) shooting at the old Hollywood Masonic Temple, but there’s also a lot of t-shirt shops, dirty bootleg characters charging for photos, and a long-time homeless encampment that LA dismantled in August before a big public event.
I’ve worked behind the camera a lot in the last few years, but this week, I combed my hair and appeared on the national show Daily Flash as an expert in new foods on the market. Thanks to Mitch and Andrea and the crew for letting me broadcast my very specific knowledge to the world. Please check out the link below.
Gary Coleman and Mr. T (Lawrence Tureaud) on Diff’rent Strokes in 1983. Mr. T appears as himself, shooting an episode of The A-Team in the Drummond family penthouse apartment. Arnold (Coleman) gets jealous when a young girl pays more attention to the TV star, so Arnold dresses like Mr. T to charm her.
I’m a loyal watcher of the old “Mission: Impossible” TV series. Right now, you can catch one episode a week on METV. Monday mornings at 3 a.m. I expect that whenever the next Tom Cruise “MI” movie comes out, it’ll run more often. That’s what usually happens.
What I love is how it’s a time capsule of making TV in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. The same character actors show up season after season. Sid Haig played eight different people. Arthur Batanides played six. John Vernon, four. They’d play a priest in one episode, disappear for a year, and then reappear as a gangster. It was easier to have that kind of career before DVDs and streaming.
