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 8, 2020 | Getting Famous
Pat Parelli, was born in California’s Bay Area. He was obsessed with horses at an early age, working in stables from nine years old. At 17, Pat was a natural bareback rider, good enough that he won the Bareback rookie of the year title in 1972. For the next 14...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 5, 2020 | Getting Famous
1975, Stallone saw the Muhammad Ali – Chuck Wepner fight also known as the “Bayonne Bleeder”. That match was like a flash of divine inspiration when for a brief moment Wepner knocked Ali to the canvas. That night Stallone went home, and after three...
by Andrew Wood | Jul 4, 2020 | Getting Famous
In 1972, actress Jane Fonda went on a controversial tour to North Vietnam. The trip would come to be the most infamous part of her activist career, and lead to her nickname “Hanoi Jane.”. It was during that trip that a photograph was taken of her seated on...
by Andrew Wood | Sep 4, 2019 | Getting Famous
The question was posed by the understandably concerned Gladys Presley after her 11-year-old son, Elvis, asked to get a .22-gauge rifle. He had first asked for a bicycle, but the strapped family couldn’t afford it. Ultimately, they agreed on the six-string Kay...
