Anita Gillette, Bert Convy, Jayne Meadows, Richard Dawson
Bud Hilpert from Tujunga: “I paint with my feet”
Hilpert’s day job is as the administrator of the HEAR Foundation in Pasadena, an organization dedicated to helping deaf youth. The group has an annual art auction, and at the 1970 event, Hilpert joked to a talented finger painter that he (Hilpert) should try making art with his toes. Hilpert’s original effort sold for $40 at the event and launched a tongue-in-cheek career. The colorful Hilpert clearly doesn’t take any of it seriously, but his finished works are quite good. Today known as the HEAR Center, the California organization continues to assist the hearing-impaired.
Chad Webber from Woodland Hills: “I’m the voice of Charlie Brown in Peanuts” and Mr X: “I’m Snoopy”
Veteran animator Bill Melendez was responsible for the overall
look of the Peanuts TV specials and movies for decades, producing and directing
most of them and providing the chirps, squeals and yips of everyone’s favorite
beagle. Twelve-year-old Chad provided the voice of Charlie Brown in the feature
film Snoopy Come Home (1972) and the TV specials You’re Not Elected,
Charlie Brown (1972) and There’s No Time for Love, Charlie Brown (1973). Melendez and his team decided
from the beginning that actual children should provide the voices of the child
characters, so over the years, Charlie Brown and the other roles were regularly
recast. As an adult, Webber became a
graphics designer for motion pictures.
Special guest Cliff Robertson takes part in a guessing game along with the panel.
As Steve asks questions such as “How many of you have been arrested?” the object for the panel (and Robertson) is to guess how many of the five of them will say they have. Like many of the 70s era celebrity games, this had been played on the original version ( E651 , E680 ). Robertson is promoting J.W. Coop (1972) in which he plays an ex-con trying to make it in the rodeo circuit. Robertson directed, co-wrote and co-produced the project as well. The film would receive mixed reviews and fare poorly at the box office.
[Virginia Matthews] from Upland: “I was sent by parcel post”
Matthews claims that some fifty years ago, as a child visiting her grandfather, he didn’t have time to return her home, so he took her to the local postman who delivered her by horse and buggy. Her story is part of family lore, and she even has the stamps to prove it. While we can’t find her specific tale documented anywhere, there are definitely stories of children being shipped by parcel post (usually under the watchful eye of a trusted local carrier) when the service began being offered in the 1910s. That practice was officially halted after a few years. Today it’s prohibited to ship people, or in fact any warm-blooded animals, though some have tried.
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