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Other than the dimples on my butt, I can’t think of more gorgeous ones than those belonging to Mario Lopez. Like most people, I first noticed Mario when he portrayed Slater on Saved By the Bell. BTW, I still watch that show every morning from 5:00-6:00 while I’m getting ready for my grown up job.

Mario Lopez was born in San Diego on October 10, 1973. I guess he’s mainly an actor but is also a host, dancer, athlete, and bad drummer. His first gig was in 1984 when he portrayed Tomas on the TV show a.k.a Pablo. After that he was a dancer and drummer on Kids Incorporated which also starred Stacy Ferguson (Fergie), Jennifer Love Hewitt, Marta “Martika” Marrero, and Ryan Lambert.

He started playing Albert Clifford “A.C.” Slater in Saved by the Bell in 1989. This show also starred Mark Paul Gosselaar, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Dustin Diamond, Lark Voorhies, and Elizabeth Berkley.

Mario did lots of stuff after Saved By the Bell. I remember him on some segment you would watch as you’re waiting in line for Space Mountain at Disneyland. Does anyone else remember that? Some of the other shows and movies he was in:

• He played Greg Louganis in the 1997 TV movie Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story. Mario in a speedo. Praise Jesus.
• He played police officer Bobby Cruz in the 2000 TV show Pacific Blue. I think that’s where he rode around on a bike in tiny shorts.
• He played Dr. Christian Ramirez on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. I would love to play doctor with Mario.
• He was butt naked (literally) in Nip/Tuck. Praise Jesus more.
• I loved the talk show he did called The Other Half. It was basically Mario along with Danny Bonaduce. Dick Clark was actually part of some shows but he didn’t seem to be around as much as the other two. The show added some dork named Dorian Gregory in the last year. We’re not gonna fall for the banana in the tail pipe.
• I started watching Dancing with the Stars because of Mario Lopez. He danced on the third season of Dancing with the Stars and was the runner up to Emmitt Smith. Mario was definitely the better dancer, but I guess Emmitt had a bigger fan base.

Some other useless Mario trivia:

• Girls were heartbroken when Mario was taken off the market in 2004……for a whole 18 days. He was married to Ali Landry from 4/24/04 to 5/12/04. She had the wedding annulled after hearing of Mario’s alleged infidelity at his bachelor party and then again after they got married. Slut.
• He’s a close friend of Eva Long-whore-ia, I mean Longoria. I wonder how close they are? Mmmm….
• He did it in Dick Clark’s hot tub (he said something like that on The Other Half).
• He became a permanent host for the news magazine show Extra in 2008.
• He made his Broadway debut in 2008 as Zach in A Chorus Line. Don’t you have to be able to sing in order to be in a musical?
• He auditioned to take over for Bob Barker on The Price is Right. That gig went to Drew Carey who drives me crazy.
• He is the host for many different pageants. He has hosted Miss Teen USA, Miss America, Miss Universe, and Miss Skanky Ass. Okay. I made up that last one.

Mario seems like a super nice guy. I’ve never thought anything else in all the years I’ve been watching him. My friend thinks he’s gay. My gaydar is pretty good and I just don’t see anything gay with Mario, not that there’s anything wrong with that. I hope he keeps smiling and taking off his clothes for many years to come.

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Hello again! Thanks for coming back! Herein lies the sixth installment of ZTAMS Partridge Family review! Woot woot! This episode originally aired on October 16, 1970 and is called “Love at First Slight”. It’s basically about Keith not doing well with his newfound success as a teen idol. He has to constantly run from hundreds of girls chasing him. It’s actually only five girls who are chasing him, but whatever makes you feel important Keith…..

The show opens with beautiful Shirley in the kitchen fake chopping vegetables. Keith walks in dressed as Gilligan. He’s being all pissy because girls are chasing him. Susan Dey (Laurie) really needs some eyebrow work done. Keith is bitching and moaning about girls signing up for the same classes as him, cheering for him at the basketball game, following him home, and more. Poor baby. He’s complaining about all this while a strange young girl named Kathy sits in the corner and drools over him. Apparently, Shirley found her in her azalea bed and invited her in. Keith acts like a prick to her. I don’t have an azalea bed but if I found anyone on my property, I’d do a Clint Eastwood. Get off my lawn. I wouldn’t invite them in. Crazy Shirley!

TRACY: I like you Mr. Kincaid.
REUBEN: Thanks.
DANNY: She hasn’t developed a lot of taste yet.

Keith is walking to basketball practice when the same five girls see him and start chasing him. He ducks into a dress store where owner Janet has no clue who he is. She’s very sarcastic and I love her for that! Keith also loves her because she doesn’t know who he is. Keith skips basketball practice to try and impress her. She thinks he’s a douche bag. Keith tells Shirley, who is fake vacuuming the shag carpet, that he thinks he’s in love.

Tracy is eating a second dessert because Laurie didn’t want hers. Mmm…..maybe she was in the back eating carrots instead.

Ummm…..it’s a new day and all of the Partridge characters are in new clothes. Kathy, the girl Shirley found in her azalea bed, is still wearing the same green dress. I wonder if she at least changed her underwear. Gross. Get off my lawn.

Keith begs and pleads with sarcastic dress shop owner Janet to come to dinner. Janet agrees just so that Keith will get off her ass. Shirley has also invited groupie star struck azalea girl Kathy for dinner the same night. Oh no! Keith drives over to Kathy’s in the bus to tell her she can’t come to dinner. Why would he take the bus? And instead of going to the door, he just sits out in the bus and honks the horn. What a pig.

He ends up smoothing things over with puppy dog Kathy and breaking things off with Janet. He realized he was becoming a jerk just to impress Janet. I thought he was a jerk to begin with, but whatever.

My favorite character, Chris (Jeremy Gelbwaks), only had one line in this show. He got to say “Keith has a girlfriend”. Wow. Way to go, writers. Tracy had way more lines this show and while she’s an adorable little girl, she can’t deliver lines like my Chris.

Why in the tag did Keith walk into the kitchen and start drinking out of Shirley’s coffee cup? The show ends with Keith being sad because the hundreds of girls (five) are no longer chasing him. Dude, make up your mind.

This isn’t one of my favorite episodes. Keith is a jerk and Chris is only in one scene. I did like Janet, the dress store owner. She was funny and cutting and sarcastic. My kind of person.

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I’ll admit it. I checked him out when he was in Playgirl. It was kind of a disappointment. I like him better with his pants on. Now that I think about it, I guess I like most people better with their pants on.

Chris Atkins was born Christopher Atkins Bomann on February 21, 1961 in New York and was a hottie 80’s teen idol. Most young girls fell in love with him from his role as Richard in The Blue Lagoon. Actually, most young girls shouldn’t have seen that movie since it was rated R. His attire for that movie consisted of only a loin cloth. That was it, ladies! He was tan and yummy and had curly blonde hair (perm). You got to see his butt and more. Kind of. Yay! Chris was actually teaching sailing and had no interest in acting when a friend pressured him to audition for The Blue Lagoon. The role was turned down by Matt Dillon (can’t picture him as Richard in the loin cloth……kind of threw up a bit in my mouth just thinking about it). Chris was chosen for the role out of 4,000 other studly boys. He starred opposite Brooke Shields in this cult favorite.

Chris Atkins went on to star in another cult favorite, The Pirate Movie with Kristy McNichol. I never saw that movie and probably don’t need to, even though he was shirtless. The following year he portrayed a stripper in the movie A Night in Heaven. He then got a part in the TV show Dallas where he was a shirtless slutty cowboy. Something like that. Did he ever wear clothes?

He went on to film some crap that I don’t know anything about. I think he also started drinking. He was all set to play Ren MacCormack in the 1984 movie Footloose but he pretty much crapped on Hollywood. (That role in Footloose, of course, went to Kevin Bacon.) I don’t remember Chris Atkins’ exact words, but the Footloose part went bye bye because of his partying and being irresponsible.

He appeared in the 2009 show Confessions of a Teen Idol which could have been called The Teen Idol Has Beens. There were actually some cool people on there. Scott Baio and Jason Hervey hosted the show. In addition to Chris, the idols included David Chokachi (Baywatch), Billy Hufsey (Fame and Days of Our Lives), Jeremy Jackson (Baywatch), Jamie Walters (Beverly Hills, 90210), Adrian Zmed (T.J. Hooker), and other weird dudes I didn’t know. I thought Jamie Walters was very down to earth as well as Adrian Zmed. Billy Hufsey and Jeremy Jackson were very uh…..er….um…very confident. They really think a lot of themselves. I remember Billy Hufsey speaking highly of himself when he was on a talk show back in the 80’s. Now he just looks like a big meatball with arms.

Although Chris is now all wrinkly from his exposure to the sun (use your sun block, people!), he’s still a good looking guy. He’s got that rugged Robert Redford thing going on. He also seems to have matured and is sincere in becoming an accomplished actor again. According to IMDB, he has a few films in the can and is working on others. I wish him just as much success in his later years as he had when he was naked in a loin cloth. To see more naked and nude and tan and sexy and hot and yummy pictures of Chris Atkins, please visit my website at www.ztams.com.

I was jealous of her. I saw her all the time in my teen magazines. She was a tomboy just like me. She liked to skateboard just like me. She liked Donny Osmond just like……okay, I liked Tony DeFranco. She was cute just like me. I was jealous because she got to kiss Leif Garrett, date Scott Baio, be in a movie with Burt Reynolds, be in a really bad movie with Chris Atkins, and more. Oh yeah, she had a hottie for a brother. Jimmy McNichol was an underrated teen idol. He was hot. I guess that’s one of only a few differences between me and Kristy McNichol. My brothers aren’t hot.

Christina Ann McNichol was born on September 11, 1962. Her parents divorced when she was quite young and she and brother Jimmy were often left to fend for themselves while actress mom went on auditions. Soon the kids were doing commercials here and there. Kristy’s first TV role was a guest spot on Love, American Style. Her first regular role was in the Walton’s copy cat show, Apple’s Way. I first learned of Kristy in this show as I was watching it to look at Vincent Van Patten. Yummy.

I believe Kristy is best known for her role as Buddy Lawrence on the TV show Family. (Isn’t Buddy a dog’s name?) This is the show where LEIF GARRETT played her boyfriend. OMG! How lucky can one be? Oh yeah, a few years later she got to DO IT with Matt Dillon in the movie Little Darlings. Lucky! Her last main TV show before retiring from show business was Empty Nest. Other TV shows and movies she appeared in are:

• The Bionic Woman with Lindsay Wagner
• The Love Boat with Scott Baio and Robert Reed
• Me and Dad’s New Wife, an ABC Afterschool Special, with Lance Kerwin, Leif Garrett, and Jimmy McNichol
• Starsky and Hutch with David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser
• The End with Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, and Robby Benson
• The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia with Dennis Quaid and Mark Hamill
• The Pirate Movie with Christopher Atkins
• Children of the Bride with Jack Coleman and Patrick Duffy

Like many teen actors, Kristy and her brother Jimmy became singers! Hey, if you add enough background vocals and other crap to the mix, anyone can sound good. I think they had their own TV special where they sang and danced. It was cute, but somewhat pathetic.

KRISTY TRIVIA

• Was considered for the role of Amanda Whurlitzer in the 1976 movie The Bad News Bears, but lost out to Tatum O’Neal (whom she later starred with in Little Darlings).
• Turned down the Jodie Foster role of Iris in the 1976 movie Taxi Driver.
• Turned down the Brooke Shields role of Violet in the 1978 movie Pretty Baby.
• George Clooney and Brad Pitt have admitted to having crushes on her when they were younger.

Kristy retired from acting in the early 90’s when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She was doing an Andy Gibb and having attendance problems, storming off the set, etc. Being a star and all, most people just assumed she had a drug problem. It was at that time she was diagnosed with her disorder. Kristy don’t do no drugs! She’s a good girl just like me. I believe she is currently living in Los Angeles. She has taught acting and has donated a lot of her time to charity. Kristy is a class act and I hope she’s enjoying her life outside of the spotlight.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of Brady! Here is my review of episode number eight. Yes, it is awesome. This episode is called “A Camping We Will Go” and the original air date was November 14, 1969. Can you guess what it’s about? My readers are so smort. Yes, the Bradys go camping. This is the first camping trip with all family members and Alice. The boys don’t want the stupid girls to go and the girls don’t want to go because of the icky things. They all go on the trip and, of course, have the time of their life.

The show opens with Mike and Carol getting their dusty camping equipment out of the garage. Mike is planning his annual camping trip for the boys but this time he’s bring the girls along as well. Mike and Carol are going to show the kids that “togetherness” isn’t just a word. Lame.

The boys are all pissed off that the girls are going to go on the trip:

GREG: Ah, dad. Why can’t you understand? Girls on a camping trip is just too far out.
BOBBY: They’ll ruin our fun.
GREG: They might even get lost.
PETER: Hey, maybe we should bring ‘em along.

Hahaha! Good one, Peter! The girls don’t want to go on the trip either. Cindy is afraid of wild animalth. Mike and Carol tell the kids they have to go or else they’ll kill them. Just kidding. I made that up. I should have been a writer for the Brady Bunch. It would have been way better.

The kids march out to the station wagon to get going on the trip. Why is Alice wearing Cousin Emma’s uniform? How come they don’t lock up when they leave for their camping trip? Mike closes the curtains and the fake sliding glass door, but there was no way they could have locked it from that side. I guess things were much safer back in 1969.

The family finally gets in the car and they’re ready to leave when Cindy whispers into Carol’s ear “Mommy, I really have to take a pith”. Everyone in the car then decides they need to go to the bathroom as well. All except Mike head back into the house to go wee wee. He sits in the car and fumes….”That damn Sherwood Schwartz!!!”

The Bradys finally get going and of course sing songs as they’re driving to the camp site. I like big butts and I can not lie. You other brothers can’t deny…. This was well before any seatbelt laws as Cindy is sitting on Carol’s lap in the front seat.

The next scene shows their camp site with the boys and girls tents set up. Carol is sweeping the ground with a branch. Where’s Alice? Doesn’t she do all the housework?

The boys didn’t want the girls to go fishing, but of course they had to go. Togetherness. Greg and Jan come back first. Greg is all pissed off because Jan had a hold on the huge fish he caught but Jan let go because it felt fishy. Smort. Peter and Marcia come back next. Peter is pissed off at Marcia because she broke his line. She walked into it by mistake and it felt like a cobweb. Bobby comes back and tells Alice and Carol that Mike caught something really big. It turns out to be Cindy. Hahahaha! That is so funny! Not. Cindy fell in the water and scared all the fish away. Thupid bitch. She said she didn’t thwim on purpose. She thwam on accident.

Carol and Marcia bring out a big basket of food. Carol says she and the girls packed it in the car. Huh? That doesn’t make sense to me. Is there some kind of grocery store in the car?

Cut to Mike and Carol in front of the propane fueled fake fire. This was filmed on a sound stage and not on location. They’re trying to be romantic but the little rats are calling from their tents.

Carol and the girls are all in their pajamas. The inside of the tent is mysteriously larger than the outside. They get scared when they hear the hoot of an owl. Carol screams for Mike who comes running over. After calming down the females, Mike returns to the boys’ tent where they all talk about how stupid the girls are.

Once asleep, Alice punctures her air mattress with all the crap in her hair. She says she thinks it’s a rattle snake which make all the girls scream. Mike is awoken and runs over to save them. When he’s pulling his sleeping bag off, his pants almost come off with it. That’s what I’m talking about! Mike runs to the girls’ tent and starts feeling around inside Alice’s sleeping bag. He says “Oh, I’m sorry”. It doesn’t seem scripted. I wonder what he grabbed inside that sleeping bag. Tee hee. Mike returns to the male tent and the boys start bitching more about the girls:

MIKE: Don’t you remember it was the girls who brought all that food?
GREG: That’s right fellas.
PETER: It was pretty good too.
BOBBY: Well, I guess women are okay for some things.

What a little sexist pig you are Bobby.

At 23:09 in my DVD, Robert Reed looks the most gorgeous I have ever seen him. I remember this shot from when I was a kid and thinking way back then how handsome he was. Anyway, the girls scare the boys with a fake bear silhouette which logistically didn’t make sense to me. The boys run out of their tent, the girls scream, and the boys run into the girls’ tent to beat the shit out of them. Susan Olsen said in the commentary how she really wanted to be in that scene because it looked like so much fun but wasn’t allowed because the producers thought she might get hurt. The scene ends with Mike getting pulled into the tent and they all roll around and work on their “togetherness”.

The tag is of Carol and Mike sitting on their bed as they’ve just come home from their camping trip. Greg comes in and tells his parents that they’ve just had a kid meeting downstairs and how they’d like to go everywhere together from now on. Mike and Carol fall back on the bed laughing hysterically. The end.

EPISODE #8 TRIVIA & MY OPINION AND STUFF

• The license plate of the Brady Plymouth station wagon is California Y18078.
• The daylight scene was shot on location at Franklin Canyon Reservoir which was the same place as the opening of the Andy Griffith show.
• The daylight scenes were shot in one day.
• The overdubbing of voices is actually quite good of all actors. Susan Olsen said that there was actual fried chicken in the studio when they did the overdub for the scene where they eat the food the women brought.
• Cindy and Bobby (Susan Olsen and Mike Lookinland) had their honeymoon on the camping trip. The two hooked up and Maureen McCormick (Marcia) married them. They considered this camping trip to be their honeymoon. Susan Olsen says they divorced shortly after when Mike Lookinland started having eyes for Eve Plumb (Jan).
• Florence Henderson (Carol) is wearing a wig.
• Maureen McCormick still had her moles. They formed a cross on her face. That’s funny. I want to play connect the dots on my face too.
• This episode is one of only a few where Alice is not in her blue slave uniform.

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She’s got big breastesses and she’s not afraid to use them. Jennifer Love Hewitt currently stars on the Friday night thriller, Boob Whisperer. Oops. I mean Ghost Whisperer. I’m funny. Jennifer Love Hewitt was born in Waco “Drink the Kool-Aid” Texas on February 21, 1979.

Jennifer appeared in lots of commercials after moving to Los Angeles and finally got her big break in the TV show Kids Incorporated. Kids Incorporated was also the start for other teen idols including Mario Lopez, Dee Caspary, Ryan Lambert, and Martika. Jennifer also hit it big by playing Sarah Reeves on the hit show “Party of Five“. She became a star of the big screen in 1997 with her lead role in “I Know What You Did Last Summer“.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is also a singer. She actually started singing as a young child before she started acting. She became somewhat of a pop star in Japan in the early 90’s with her first album, Love Songs. She’s released five other albums since then, some with moderate success.

JLH has dated half of Hollywood. Okay, not really. She is currently dating her Ghost Whisperer co-star Jamie Kennedy. He’s a funny guy and I’m a fan of his. I don’t picture the two of them together, but I guess that’s not really any of my business.

JLH made the cover of People magazine a few years back with her big gigantic self in a bikini. I’m joking. I couldn’t believe all of the coverage this received. It was actually nice to see a celebrity with a little extra on their bones. People are too skinny nowadays. I wouldn’t mind at all being as fat as Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Jennifer is a freaky deaky sex girl. She recently had a sex party for her friends where it is believed she stocked up on vibrating knickers, bondage tape, and a spanker. I currently have an abundant supply of all those items in my home. JLH also vajazzles. This is, of course, the decorating of the vagina with crystals. Jeez. I’m lucky to even wash mine, let alone decorate it. Jennifer says she decorated her precious lady with Swarovski crystals and it shined like a disco ball. She’s a very kinky girl. The kind you don’t take home to mother…… She says women should vajazzle their vajay-jays. That sounds like Bill Cosby talk. Puddin’ pop.

I’m cool with Jennifer Love Hewitt. She seems like a multi-talented girl who isn’t a size zero. I like that. Plus she’s into freaky sex stuff. I wonder if she has a butt plug made of cheese. Mmmmm…..

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Rob Lowe has one of those gorgeous faces that will always make him good looking. He’s going to be handsome as a 60 year old. He’ll still be handsome at 90. He just has one of those faces. Rob became famous in the 1980’s after appearing in several movies and thereby making him a cool member of the Brat Pack. (We’ll talk about that later.)

Robert Hepler Lowe was born on March 17, 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Hepler? Nice middle name. Rob’s parents divorced when he was very young and mom moved him and his younger bro, Chad, to California via Dayton, Ohio. Rob started modeling and then got his first TV show in the late 70’s. He portrayed Tony Flanagan in the short lived TV series A New Kind of Family. He then did a few of the ABC Afterschool Specials, one of which (Schoolboy Father) earned him a Golden Globe nomination.

Rob moved onto the big screen and started showing up everywhere. Some of his many movies include:

• The Outsiders
• Class
• The Hotel New Hampshire
• Oxford Blues
• St. Elmo’s Fire
• Youngblood
• About Last Night

ROB LOWE TRIVIA

• Had a virus when he was an infant and is deaf in his right ear as a result.
• Lost out on the role of Caledon ‘Cal’ Hockley in the movie
  Titanic. That role went to Billy Zane.

• Helped Arnold Schwarzenegger become Governor of California in 2003. Thank you so much, Rob.
• Dated ‘Half Pint Laura Ingalls’ AKA Melissa Gilbert in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. They were so cute together but…..Rob slept with Nastassja Kinski so Melissa slept with John Cusack. That’s a good way to solve problems.
• Was in a sex scandal in 1988 with little girls. I actually have pictures of this I found in a French magazine but they’re too racy to post here. Oui, oui.
• Man whore.

The Brat Pack is a play on the 1950’s Rat Pack and is a name given to a group of young actors who often appeared together in teen movies of the 1980’s. Rob Lowe was definitely a part of the Brat Pack as was Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore. The rest of the list varies depending on who you talk to, but the following celebrities have been linked to the Brat Pack:

• Judd Nelson
• Anthony Michael Hall
• Ally Sheedy
• Molly Ringwald
• Andrew McCarthy
• Tom Cruise
• Tommy Howell
• Ralph Macchio
• Patrick Swayze
• Charlie Sheen
• Jon Cryer
• John Cusack
• Kevin Bacon
• Jami Gertz
• Matthew Broderick
• Sean Penn
• Kiefer Sutherland

Rob Lowe continues to act but I don’t really follow him anymore. I know he portrayed Sam Seaborn in The West Wing in the early 2000’s. I also know he passed on the role of Derek Shepherd in Grey’s Anatomy. That role went to Patrick Dempsey instead. Doh! I saw him recently on Ellen (I love her!!) and he was pleasant and sweet and good looking. I thought it was nice that he talked about his kids. He’s all grown up now. I wonder if he’s had any relapses with his sex addiction. To dream about relapsing with Rob, please visit my website at www.ztams.com

Bobby Sherman was one of those actor/singer type teen heartthrobs. He started gracing the covers of Tiger Beat and 16 magazines in the late 1960’s with his boyish good looks. I thought he was okay looking. He had nice hair and looked good with his shirt off, but I didn’t think he was anything to write home about. I thought he kind of had bucked teeth.

Robert Cabot Sherman, Jr. was born on July 22, 1943 in Santa Monica, California. He’s like my mom’s age. That’s kind of creepy. If he was born in 1943, that means he was kind of an old “teen” idol in the late 1960’s. Teen idols nowadays are truly teens. They’re like 13 and 14 years old, not 25.

Bobby appeared in a 1967 episode of The Monkees before getting a spot on the TV show Here Come the Brides. He appeared in a 1971 episode of The Partridge Family which served as the spin-off for his show Getting Together. Getting Together also starred Wes Stern. That’s a funny name. I wonder what that guy’s real name is. His parents couldn’t have been that cruel. Getting Together was on against All in the Family on Saturday nights and therefore lost in the ratings. It was canceled after only thirteen episodes.

Bobby also released quite a few albums and singles in the 60’s and 70’s. Some of his hit songs were Little Woman, Julie (Do Ya Love Me), Easy Come Easy Go, Jennifer, La La La, and The Drum.

Bobby’s acting career sputtered along after Getting Together. He acted here and there in small parts on TV shows until 1986, at which time he found a new calling. Bobby has been a trained EMT since 1988. He has worked for the L.A. Police Department and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. He has trained thousands of cadets first aid and CPR.

TRIVIA TIME: Bobby built a one-fifth scale model of Disneyland’s Main Street, made entirely by hand, in his yard in the 70’s. I guess he liked Disneyland. Way cool.

Bobby is now a grandfather but continues to have his fans. I saw an auction on eBay recently where you could bid on a lunch with Bobby Sherman. There were similar type lunches with other celebrities. It was all for a good charity. (Are there bad charities?) Some auctions went for several hundred dollars. Bobby’s auction by far raised the most money. I think the final bidding price was in the vicinity of $2,300. Cool.

So yeah, Bobby had an exciting teen idol life in his late 20’s and then went on to another career where he could help people. He often donates time to charity and just seems like an all around good guy. To look at lots of yummy Bobby pinups and posters, head on over to my website at www.ztams.com. Groovy and far out!