# child star (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover child star. Page: Feed: --- ## [THE BOX OFFICE STARS: 1960](http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-box-office-stars-1960.html) _2026-08-19 · David Lobosco · A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE_ 1960 was the dawn of another decade, and the 1960s cinema was changing just as the whole world was. Here are the top ten movie stars of 1960... 1. DORIS DAY 2. ROCK HUDSON 3. CARY GRANT 4. Elizabeth Taylor 5. Debbie Reynolds 6. Tony Curtis 7. Sandra Dee 8. Frank Sinatra 9. Jack Lemmon 10. John Wayne. ## [RECENTLY VIEWED: THE END OF OAK STREET](http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2026/08/recently-viewed-end-of-oak-street.html) _2026-08-17 · David Lobosco · A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE_ Sometimes it seems like the same movie is made over and over again. I had the pleasure to see The End Of Oak Street in the movie theater, and I was glad I did. The movie is so much different than anything I have seen before. It is definitely no Jurassic Park! The End of Oak Street is a 2026 American science fiction survival film written, co-produced, and directed by David Robert Mitchell. It stars… ## [W.C. FIELDS AND MY LITTLE CHICKADEE](http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2026/08/wc-fields-and-my-little-chickadee.html) _2026-08-14 · David Lobosco · A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE_ W.C. Fields walked off the set of "My Little Chickadee" (1940) over what director Edward F. Cline felt was a minor disagreement, but when it was clear after two weeks that he was not coming back to finish the film, nearly one-third was shot using a double. The double used is unknown. It could have been John Sinclair, who had doubled for him in "Poppy" (1936), or David Sharpe, who was his stunt… ## [RECENTLY VIEWED: THE LAST HOUSE](http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2026/08/recently-viewed-last-house.html) _2026-08-12 · David Lobosco · A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE_ Some movies entertain you for two hours and then disappear from your thoughts. Others linger long after the credits roll. Netflix's The Last House is one of those films. At first glance, it looks like a science fiction thriller about a family trapped inside their own home. But underneath the mystery and suspense is a story about fear, resilience, and what happens when a family is forced to face… ## [TOMMY BOND: THE LITTLE RASCALS BULLY](http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2026/08/tommy-bond-little-rascals-bully.html) _2026-08-09 · David Lobosco · A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE_ A native of Dallas, Texas, Tommy Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang (Little Rascals) comedies (first as "Tommy" and later as "Butch"). Also, he is noted for being the first actor to appear onscreen as "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen, having portrayed the character in the film serials Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).… ## [GARY CROSBY: THE EARLY YEARS](http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2026/08/gary-crosby-early-years.html) _2026-08-07 · David Lobosco · A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE_ Gary Crosby was born on June 27, 1933, in Los Angeles, the first son of Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee. From the very beginning, music was woven into his life. While other kids grew up with bedtime stories, Gary grew up with jam sessions—his father’s voice drifting through the house, rehearsals echoing from the living room, and visits from stars who defined an era. By the time Gary was a teenager, it… ## [RECENTLY VIEWED: THE HAWK](http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2026/08/recently-viewed-hawk.html) _2026-08-05 · David Lobosco · A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE_ Okay, I am a huge Will Ferrell fan. I have watched most of his movies, and I have liked the majority of them. However like other comedians like Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey, his schtick starts to get old. I recently watched his 10 episode comedy on Netflix called The Hawk. It is ok - just ok. The Hawk was created by Will Ferrell, Harper Steele, and Chris Henchy, and starring Ferrell and Molly… ## [WHAT A CHARACTER: PAT HINGLE](http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2026/08/what-character-pat-hingle.html) _2026-08-02 · David Lobosco · A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE_ Pat Hingle made his "acting debut" in the third grade, playing a carrot in a school play ("At that time it didn't seem like much of a way to make a living!" he recalled). Hingle attended high school in Texas and entered the University of Texas, majoring in advertising. "After one \[college\] semester I went into the Navy for four years in the Pacific on a destroyer. I went back to school and every… ## [ROBIN WILLIAMS AND ONE HOUR PHOTO](http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2025/07/robin-williams-and-one-hour-photo.html) _2026-07-29 · David Lobosco · A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE_ In preparation for his role in "One Hour Photo" (2002), Robin Williams trained for two and a half days at a photo developing training facility in Southern California on an Agfa MSC 101-D photo developing machine. Williams was originally cast as the SavMart manager, Bill Owens (eventually played by Gary Cole), but after reading the screenplay for a second time, Williams requested the role of… ## [REFLECTIONS: DON MURRAY ON MARILYN MONROE](http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2026/07/reflections-don-murray-on-marilyn-monroe.html) _2026-07-26 · David Lobosco · A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE_ Don Murray later remembered the difficulties of filming with Marilyn Monroe during "Bus Stop" (1956), who was essentially his boss on the movie. Paula Strasberg had replaced Natasha Lytess as Monroe's on-the-spot acting coach, and Murray recalled that, while Strasberg was "polite," she constantly "huddled" with Marilyn and paid no attention to anyone else. Murray said that, because of Monroe's… ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PFFoD7WTP9At) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and start investing with low-cost global access. ## [Birthday No. 1 Blues #16 - Jack Your Body](https://numberonebirthdayblues.blogspot.com/2025/08/birthday-no-1-blues-16-jack-your-body.html) _2025-08-15 · fourfoot · Number One Birthday Blues_ I am sixteen years old and Jack Your Body is number 1. Top of the Pops has never felt more like a televised version of Radio Free Europe than at this point. There is no house music in Ceredigion. Dance culture round our way meant one of three things. Firstly the traditional twmpath scene of Young Farmers and WI events. Then there was the fortnightly disco in Tregaron, a truly terrible occasion… ## [Birthday No. 1 Blues #15 - The Sun Always Shines on TV](https://numberonebirthdayblues.blogspot.com/2025/07/birthday-no-1-blues-15-sun-always.html) _2025-07-28 · fourfoot · Number One Birthday Blues_ Everything is wet. The moment you step outside you experience the first instalment of drowning. Sleet, mist, snow, fog, drizzle. Take your pick. Always something watery in the weather. But mainly there is the rain, the insistent, persistent, consistent rattle of water on the hood of your coat, the flimsy window of your bedroom, the windscreen of the bus, the driving of it in the gale force wind… ## [Birthday No. 1 Blues #14 - I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner](https://numberonebirthdayblues.blogspot.com/2025/07/birthday-no-1-blues-14-i-want-to-know.html) _2025-07-10 · fourfoot · Number One Birthday Blues_ I am fourteen years old and Foreigner are Top of the Pops. I have been living in Wales, proper Wales, actual sheep shit in the wintry air, slate roof, Cymraeg-speaking, terrifyingly rural Wales for about three months. Our house is 250 years old and the roof is falling apart. The television signal is intermittent and one of the channels is in a language that, right now, is completely alien to me.… ## [Birthday No. 1 Blues - #13 - Pipes of Peace - Paul McCartney](https://numberonebirthdayblues.blogspot.com/2025/07/birthday-no-1-blues-13-pipes-of-peace.html) _2025-07-08 · fourfoot · Number One Birthday Blues_ I am thirteen years old and, for the second time in my life, Paul McCartney is Top of the Pops . It says a lot about this country that you can stick an ex-Beatle in an average at best song, make a sentimental video set in the apocryphal footballing truce Christmas World War One story, and watch the money roll right on in. The First World War, Beatles and Christmas. If that story hadn’t already… ## [Birthday No. 1 Blues #12 - Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love](https://numberonebirthdayblues.blogspot.com/2025/07/birthday-no-1-blues-12-phil-collins-you.html) _2025-07-03 · fourfoot · Number One Birthday Blues_ I am twelve and Phil Collins is number one in the charts. Hard really to explain the Phil Collins phenomenon to anyone younger than 45. He’s the drummer in a prog rock band who becomes the singer when the singer quits to make mental music on his own . Collins decides to drag his band in a more commercial direction and then decides he can get even more commercial by doing stuff on his own.… ## [Birthday No. 1 Blues #11 - Bucks Fizz - The Land of Make Believe](https://numberonebirthdayblues.blogspot.com/2025/06/birthday-no-1-blues-11-bucks-fizz-land.html) _2025-06-29 · fourfoot · Number One Birthday Blues_ I am eleven years old and two terrible things have happened. Firstly, my grandad has died. The day before my birthday. He had cancer. He was a quiet, sweet man from the Valleys. He'd been a miner, a gas fitter, a builder. He once fell off a cooling tower and survived. He saw some serious action in the war and would never speak about it. Medals were hidden and memorials avoided. He was a doting… ## [Birthday No. 1 Blues #10 - Imagine - John Lennon](https://numberonebirthdayblues.blogspot.com/2025/06/birthday-no-1-blues-10-imagine-john.html) _2025-06-20 · fourfoot · Number One Birthday Blues_ I am ten years old, and a recently murdered Beatle is top of the Pops. The Beatles were not part of my childhood till this point. My parents were young enough to have been huge fans, but they were soul kids and their small record collection was mostly Motown and Stax etc. Radio didn’t play them much and their films were never on. It was as though, having dominated the Sixties, it was time to move… ## [Birthday No. 1 Blues #9 - The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket](https://numberonebirthdayblues.blogspot.com/2025/06/birthday-no-1-blues-9-brass-in-pocket.html) _2025-06-17 · fourfoot · Number One Birthday Blues_ I am nine years old and the Pretenders are number one. Both these things will never happen again. Moving into the eighties, the main thing I remember was this glut of new fonts everywhere. Everything seemed to have a futuristic look or at least look like a load of letters that had just been in the freezer too long. The most important thing that happened to me at the age of 9 was seeing Llanddewi… ## [Birthday Blues No.1 #8 - Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick](https://numberonebirthdayblues.blogspot.com/2025/06/birthday-blues-no1-8-ian-dury-and.html) _2025-06-11 · fourfoot · Number One Birthday Blues_ (HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICKERS) I am eight, Ian Dury is number one . I was recently telling a friend that looking back I realised more that I was an unhappy child than someone who had had an unhappy childhood. I didn’t fit in. I found comfort in books and films and pop music from an early age. But then, not long before my eighth birthday, Death entered my world. He didn’t come to Pemberley . He… ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aG8CulCw4Iu3) _2025-06-11 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [Birthday Blues No.1 #7 - Wings - Mull of Kintyre](https://numberonebirthdayblues.blogspot.com/2025/06/birthday-blues-no1-7-wings-mull-of.html) _2025-06-09 · fourfoot · Number One Birthday Blues_ There are two schools of thought about Paul McCartney. The first, and by some distance the most widely acknowledged, is that as one of the most important songwriters of the 20 th century, a former Beatle no less, he should be afforded some grace and kindness when reflecting on the less significant of his works. The other, espoused by my friend Hairy Dennis, is that, because he was one of the main…