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Celebrities and Drug Abuse

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I have found through writing this blog that there a number of forgotten celebrities who have sacrificed their careers and happiness because they become addicted to alcohol or drugs. Recently I read that prescription drug addiction is on the rise in teens. Unfortunately, teens sometimes look to celebrities as role models. They […]

Olivia d’Abo

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Olivia d’Abo
was born January 22, 1969 in England, the daughter of model Maggie London and Mike d’Abo of Manfred Mann fame. She played the hippie Karen Arnold in The Wonder Years. Her character was constantly at odds with her more conservative parents. d’Abo was only a regular on the show for […]

Samuel Fenton Cary

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Samuel Fenton Cary was born February 18, 1814 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He became a lawyer in 1837, but stopped working as a lawyer to become a farmer in 1845. He devoted himself to work on temperance (the avoidance of alcoholic beverages) and anti-slavery projects. He wrote books and gave lectures […]

Jason Hervey

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Jason Hervey played the always obnoxious Wayne Arnold in The Wonder Years. He was every little brother’s worst nightmare! Hervey was born April 6, 1972 in Los Angeles, California. He started his acting career at the age of 4, appearing in more than 250 commercials. He had cameo appearances in […]

Star Wars

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Too bad a new Star Wars movie isn’t coming out because I just found a great place to get Star Wars Costumes! Don’t you remember all the news articles before a new movie would be released. All those people dressed up as Darth Vader or Chewbacca?
It used to be that you would have […]

Danica McKellar

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Danica McKellar played the beautiful Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years. Kevin forever had a crush on her - “do you like, like her?”

Danica was born January 3, 1975 in La Jolla, California. She is of Portuguese and Scottish descent. Both Danica and her sister Crystal were considered for the role of […]

The Six Million Dollar Man

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Remember the show? Lee Majors starred as the Six Million Dollar Man. It was very popular from 1973 to 1978. I always wondered what happened to Lee Majors. He turns up every once in a while. Well, now he is showing his face at Bionicon […]

Josh Saviano

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Josh Saviano played Kevin Arnold’s best friend, Paul Pfeiffer on The Wonder Years. The character of Paul provided all sorts of comic relief and the two characters were great together. Josh had done some acting prior to The Wonder Years and did one movie after.

Josh was born March 31, 1976 […]

The Wonder Years

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As I was flipping around the television the other night, I came across a re-run of the show The Wonder Years! I had forgotten how much I had enjoyed watching this show. It reminds me a lot of my childhood growing up.

The next few posts are going to be my tribute to […]

Blogger’s Choice Awards

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PayPerPost has started a new website to give out blog awards. Voting is open from now until June 2, 2007. Awards will be given at the PayPerPost PostieCon. If you like my blog, head over and give me a vote.
So far there are 32 categories, including Most Obnoxious Blogger, Hottest Mommy Blogger, […]