Compelling People — Interesting Lives
Monday
September 2013
COMMENTS
Written by Melissa Parker, Posted in Interviews Actors
California native Vicki Lawrence was discovered by television legend Carol Burnett at the age of seventeen. The high school senior mailed a fan letter and a photo to Burnett who was looking for someone to play her kid sister on her new variety series, and the rest is television history.
Sunday
August 2013
COMMENTS
Written by Melissa Parker, Posted in Interviews Writers
Phil Lollar has created, written, produced and performed in dozens of kids’ audio/video series including Adventures in Odyssey, The Little Angels (produced by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett), Jungle Jim and Friends, Little Dogs on the Prairie, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss (twice nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Series), Elmo Aardvark, Outer Space Detective (the Internet’s first weekly animated series), The Mr. Men Show and Olivia (based on Ian Falconer’s bestselling children’s books).
Sunday
August 2013
COMMENTS
Written by Melissa Parker, Posted in Interviews Musicians
Dave Mustaine is best known as the founding guitarist/vocalist of the heavy metal band Megadeth and the original lead guitarist for Metallica. He is widely regarded as the “founding father” of Thrash Metal.
Thursday
August 2013
COMMENTS
Written by Marc Parker and Melissa Benefield Parker, Posted in Interviews Musicians
British-based progressive rock band Sound of Contact featuring Simon Collins and Dave Kerzner released their debut concept album, Dimensionaut, May 28, 2013. Dimensionaut is about a man who has the ability to travel through space, time and alternate realities and yet struggles with his desire to keep a sense of grounded reality on Earth, with each song an episode and sub-story within the larger contact of the 72-minute album.
