by Andrew Wood | Jul 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Oprah’s lucky break came at 17 when a Nashville, Tennessee, radio station chose her as its entry in a local beauty pageant based on her spunk during a radio interview. “I was the only Negro in a pageant of all red haired girls, and it’s the Miss...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 12, 2020 | Getting Famous
Mother of cute Canadian teenager Justin Bieber uploaded a video to YouTube of him singing. Bieber’s mother Pattie Mallette, who was underage at the time of giving birth, raised her son with the help of her mother and stepfather. Pattie worked a series of...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 11, 2020 | Getting Famous
John Wayne was actually born Marion Robert Morrison. When Marion roamed the neighborhood, h never went anywhere without his Airedale terrier, Duke, at his side. The two were such constant companions that local firefighters began calling the boy ‘Little...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 10, 2020 | Getting Famous
In the 1980s my friend Bobby Clampett was the PGA Tour’s new golden boy, a whiz kid from California who was the “next Jack Nicklaus” only it never quite worked out that way. While he did have a long and profitable career on both the PGA and Champions...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 9, 2020 | Getting Famous
John Wayne, the most iconic American actor of the 20th century, made almost 200 movies. Near the end of that run, without a single Oscar to his name, he played an aging, drunk, US marshal named Rooster J. Cogburn in the movie True Grit. The script called for him to...
