{"id":1588,"date":"2013-11-18T06:45:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2019-04-29T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:59:03","slug":"november-18-november-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/november-18-november-24\/","title":{"rendered":"November 18 -November 24 (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

RANDOM PIC OF THE WEEK<\/h3>\n

Here’s a sweet pic I call “At Your Service.”<\/p>\n

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The Kopecky Family Band was on “The Tonight Show” a few months ago and blew me away with this song called “Heartbeat.”<\/span> I’ve been humming it all week!<\/p>\n

Monday the 18th \u2013 WHAT DO BATMAN, SUPERMAN AND WONDER WOMAN ALL HAVE IN COMMON? \u2013<\/span> The answer is\u2026Barry Dennen!  He\u2019s a well-known character actor who has played everything from Pontius Pilate to Hitler!  VERY versatile, and one of the greats!  My pal Scott Sebring and I met Barry for lunch at Paty\u2019s.  Scott had pulled some images off some DVDs for Barry to use at his appearances, and Barry wanted to say thanks.  Barry was in the \u201966 \u201cBatman\u201d TV series, as well as \u201cSuperman 3,\u201d and an episode of the \u201cWonder Woman\u201d TV series.  He\u2019s really done it all!  But I met him through his work as Pilate in the \u201cJesus Christ Superstar\u201d movie and \u201cbrown album.\u201d  If that wasn\u2019t cool enough, he also voiced Chamberlain in \u201cThe Dark Crystal.\u201d  I got called in early to \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d to do a bit, so after lunch I sped off to NBC.  I did the bit, and waited around for the show to start.  Cirque Du Soleil was on the show and they were amazing as always.  I just don\u2019t get how they can do some of that stuff.  Years and years of practice I guess.  On the drive home I developed a sinus headache, so I hit the Jacuzzi when I got home and grabbed a nap on the couch.  When I got up later I did some work around the house, finished Wally\u2019s Week, fed and walked Roxy, and made a salad and watched another episode of \u201cMagnum P.l.\u201d from the Season One DVD set.  By the time I got to sleep it was around 6am.<\/p>\n

Tuesday the 19th \u2013 INTRODUCING A PRESIDENT!  (AGAIN!) \u2013<\/span> After only a few hours of sleep, Roxy woke me up by barking wildly at 8:30am!  I called her up into my room and got her quieted down.  I got another half hour of sleep, but got awakened by the hotline ringing at 9:30 with instructions to be in at 12:30 for a \u201cTS\u201d bit.  I figured I\u2019d better get up and start the day, and that\u2019s when I noticed that Roxy had peed on my bath mat again.  I\u2019m not sure why, but I was starting to think that her pee pee problems wasn\u2019t the result of any infection.  She had been on two separate regimens of anti-biotics (the final pill was just given to her a few hours earlier) so I\u2019m thinking this is something else.  I took her out for a walk, but of course she had nothing left to offer. She had left it all on my bath mat.  When I came back inside I had copy for a Jaywalk segment for that night\u2019s show.  I recorded it and sent it in.  Then I got ready and headed into NBC.  But the bit I needed to record at the studio was doing the voice of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.  I wasn\u2019t really nailing it, as his voice isn\u2019t in my wheelhouse, so I asked the writer why my pal Jim Wise wasn\u2019t doing Rob Ford\u2019s voice.  After all, Jim had already well established himself on the show as doing the character of Rob Ford, appearing in several really funny on-camera bits as Canada\u2019s infamous crack-smoking Mayor.  So they called Jim down from his office and he nailed it.  As a performer I get uneasy when I\u2019m asked to replace another actor who has already established a character.  The only time I really like to do it is when the original actor has turned down the job already.  But it all worked out!  While I was there I recorded an opening for another hilarious Cat Theater bit.  I got lunch at the commissary and then headed back to the studio.  President George W. Bush and his wife Laura were guests on the show today, so after I opened the show I went out into the audience to watch the taping.  It\u2019s only the second President I\u2019ve ever seen in person. Pretty cool stuff.   As the President did the interview, I looked down over the audience, the set, the producers and writers, cue card guys, tech guys, the President and his wife and I thought to myself, \u201cWally. You\u2019re a loooong way from South Dakota!\u201d  In the intro I did the script included the name of a stand-up comic.  But because the interview with the President was going so well the comic had to be bumped.  So when the show was over I had to go back into the booth and re-record the opening announcement without the name of the comic.  I guess if you\u2019re going to be bumped from \u201cThe Tonight Show,\u201d being bumped by a former President was pretty cool.   After the show was over I went upstairs and got my friend Edi two tickets to the second-to-the-last taping of \u201cTTS.\u201d  I also got my assistant Sara two tickets to the very last taping on February 6th.   Because of the limited amount of sleep I had gotten that morning, I was really dragging.  So when I got home I was looking forward to grabbing a nap.  But I noticed that Roxy had peed on the OTHER bath mat.  OK, something was up and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s medical. I e-mailed Carol, the lady I had gotten Roxy from originally, and talked to her about it.  I laid down some potty pads in the area where she kept peeing, hoping that would do the trick.  I started to think that I would need to limit her water intake somewhat.  I got into bed and slept for several hours. When I got up I did my auditions, worked on my autograph binders, cleaned up around the house, did dishes and laundry, balanced my checkbooks, paid bills, went through my bank statements to reconcile them all, and then made a pizza and settled down to watch \u201cMagnum P.I.\u201d again. Whew! What a day!<\/p>\n

Wednesday the 20th \u2013 \u201cFIVE-O, BABY!\u201d \u2013<\/span> I got to sleep around 6, but got up at 10 to check on Roxy.  No pee pee on the bathroom floor, which was good. I did limit her water intake the night before and it seemed to help.  I took her outside to potty, and then we went back inside to rest.  I\u2019ve been keeping her in my room at night so I can keep an ear peeled for her activities.  I\u2019m afraid if I leave her downstairs while I sleep she\u2019ll pee on the carpet.  We went back to bed and I slept for another 2 hours.  A hotline call came in telling me to be at NBC at 2 for a comedy bit.  So I got up and got ready, and checked e-mails.  Last week I did several takes of an old newsreel announcer for a \u201cHawaii Five-O\u201d audition.  My pal Pete Tassler is the Post-Production Supervisor on the show and he\u2019s called me before to voice bits for the show.  This time they needed an old-school announcer for a flashback bit.  I found out this morning that there\u2019s no need for me to come to the studio to re-record it, they loved my audition. And they\u2019re going to use the bit I recorded at home in the show!  How cool is that?!  I walked Roxy, scanned some checks and got showered.  I got to NBC and recorded the bit, then sped off to the bank to make a deposit.  I stopped into It\u2019s a Wrap to buy a light-colored hoodie for bike riding to work.  Since it\u2019s dark by the time I get out of \u201cTTS\u201d now I wanted something brighter colored to wear so I didn\u2019t get hit by a car.  All the other hoodies I have are black or dark blue.  I went back to NBC, taped the show, and when we wrapped I went over to Fast Frame.  The legendary Roger Moore is doing a private autograph signing in Switzerland in early December, so I\u2019ll be sending over some things to have him sign.  He\u2019ll never appear at a show in America, so this is my only chance to get my posters signed by my favorite 007.  But my \u201cLive and Let Die\u201d and \u201cThe Man With the Golden Gun\u201d posters have already been mounted on foam core board.  I had Mike at Fast Frame check to see if they could be removed from the board at all, but no luck.  So I would have to send them to Switzerland packaged up very carefully so they wouldn\u2019t bend during shipment.  I also checked in on my framed Brooks Robinson jersey, but Mike made it a few inches too wide.  It wasn\u2019t going to fit into the space that I had cleared for it.  I told him initially it couldn\u2019t be any larger than 31\u201d, but for some reason he went ahead and made it 33\u201d.  Unfortunately I told him he\u2019d have to re-do it.  I get frustrated when people don\u2019t listen to instructions, and I was very clear about my space limitations when I brought the piece into be framed originally.  Once Mike removed the Bond posters from their frames, I immediately took them to the neighborhood UPS store for packing.  It took about 45 minutes for the guy behind the desk to fabricate a large enough box, but it worked out great.  Since they\u2019re mounted one-sheet movie posters, they\u2019re literally over 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide.  But, it\u2019s my only chance to have them signed by Roger Moore, and the posters have already been signed by several other castmembers from those films.  Now that they\u2019re securely packaged, I can ship them off once I get the address to the location in Switzerland.  When I left UPS it had started raining out.  It would be a nice evening for a nap.  I walked Roxy when I got home, and then slipped into the Jacuzzi.  It\u2019s really fun to soak in the hot water, while the cool rain falls on my head.  I went inside to grab a nap on the couch by the fire while listening to it rain outside.  I slept VERY well!  I got up later in the evening to do auditions, work around the house, and make some Buffalo Mac with buffalo chicken strips I had gotten from Burger King.  They sufficed, but they\u2019re not as tangy as the ones I get from Denny\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Thursday the 21st \u2013 SONIC, SUN AND SUBWAY! \u2013<\/span> At 10am I sprang awake and hit the shower. I needed to be at another session for the new Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon at 11 at Studiopolis.  Though it was still a little misty out, I walked down to Studiopolis and enjoyed the morning.  It was a fun session!  Of course, it\u2019s always fun when I get to whip out my Ted Knight impression for a character!  By the time we finished at 1pm it was sunny outside.  I stopped by Subway to get a footlong, and then walked home to devour it.  Two bits for \u201cTTS\u201d were waiting for me in my inbox, so between bites I recorded them and e-mailed them in to NBC.  I had a little time before I had to be in to tape the show, so I figured I\u2019d lay down for an hour or two. No luck. The animals wouldn\u2019t let me sleep. They were happy to have me home so they laid on the bed with me and kept bugging me to pet them.  Oh well.  I made it to the show on time, taped the episode, and then headed back home to nap after a refreshing dip in the Jacuzzi.  When I got up later that night my pal Edi brought her doggie Bunny over and we chatted and watched Roxy and Buns chase each other around the house.  I walked and fed Roxy, then made myself a salad and some chicken soup and retired to bed to watch another \u201cMagnum P.I.\u201d episode.  Another week gone by really quickly!<\/p>\n

Friday the 22nd \u2013 A \u2018MOORE\u2019 DELIGHTFUL EVENING! \u2013<\/span> When I got up at noon I did some work around the house and recorded a bit for \u201cTTS.\u201d  My pal Dave Hettrick at the show who calls me with all of my call-times asked if I would record a fake movie trailer to promote their upcoming \u201cUgly Sweater Christmas Party\u201d at the Moose Lodge.  I told him I would be delighted and recorded it right away.  The guys from Chem Dry came over to clean up a vomit spot on my carpet that I wanted to have gone before my guests for Thanksgiving weekend arrived.  When Roxy was on the anti-biotics they were a little hard on her stomach.  But they removed the evidence nicely and I walked Roxy and got ready for work.  I got into NBC about 10 minutes late, but still made it in time to rehearse the opening with our director Liz.  I found out it was Liz\u2019s birthday that Sunday, so I got my assistant Sara on the phone right away.  A few weeks ago I got Liz\u2019s Christmas gift in the mail.  So I kept it downstairs in a box in my garage until the holidays rolled around.  But since her birthday was in two days, I had Sara put it in a gift bag and bring it to the studio. I would get her something else later for Christmas.  She absolutely loves \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation,\u201d and through Think Geek I found a terrific \u201cST:TNG\u201d bathrobe that looks like the command uniform.  Too funny!  I met up with Sara at the stage and took the gift bag upstairs and left it on Liz\u2019s desk.  After the show was over I met up with my friends Carolyn and Flo who were at the taping.  Carolyn was one of the ladies who put together the amazing \u201cStarsky & Hutch\u201d tribute last April.  We went over to Paty\u2019s to have dinner, but since I had a dinner meeting already scheduled at 7pm I only had a bowl of soup.  While I was at Paty\u2019s I got a call from Liz thanking me for the robe.  She said, strangely enough, she was just commenting to her husband a week earlier that she needed to buy a new robe!  PERFECT!  I hope she uses it in good health.  I went over to my mailbox and picked up some packages, including another boy mannequin for one of my vintage Halloween costumes.  This one would be wearing the classic Laurel and Hardy costume from Ben Cooper.  This one has both characters\u2019 faces on the mask.  It\u2019s clever, cool and creepy all at the same time!  I had the mask as a kid, but not the full costume.  I found one recently on ebay for a reasonable price, in reasonably good condition, so I bought it.  I\u2019m going to display the little Laurel and Hardy Halloween boy next to the full-size Laurel and Hardy figures in The Chaney Room.  I sped home and showered up for my dinner meeting.  I picked up my friend Brittney and went over to Jerry\u2019s Famous Deli.  We met my pal Elliot Lurie (former lead singer of the group Looking Glass), my assistant Sara and my pal Edi.  What a fun dinner!  When I got home I turned on an all-night radio show about the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK.  I laid on the couch listening to it, while darting in and out of sleep.  When I got up later I did some work around the house, and organized all of the Roger Moore collectibles that I wanted to have signed.  I think the final count will be five items\u20261) \u201cThe Man With the Golden Gun\u201d movie poster, 2) the \u201cLive and Let Die\u201d movie poster, 3) \u201cRoger Moore\u2019s James Bond Diary,\u201d a book I\u2019ve had since I was a kid (I loved reading all about the process of making a movie!),  4) The Bond 50 Blu Ray booklet, which already has 17 other signatures in it including Bond villains, Bond girls, and even a James Bond (George Lazenby)! And 5) the album cover to my \u201cThe Man With the Golden Gun\u201d soundtrack, already signed by Britt Ekland and Maud Adams.  I used to love that album as a kid, and I literally wore the grooves out of it.  Having Roger Moore\u2019s autograph on it will increase its framability, collectability, and displayability!  I put the Laurel and Hardy Halloween boy mannequin together and I think it\u2019s going to look quite awesome.  I\u2019ve posed them all together so the kid becomes an integral part of the display.  By the time I settled down enough to head to bed it was 6am.  But I was hungry and wanted to watch some TV.  So there I was, outside my house at 6am, firing up my grill to make chili dogs.  I enjoyed some chili cheese dogs with sauerkraut and an episode of \u201cThe Saint\u201d at 7am.  By the time I got to sleep it was 9am.  Sometimes it\u2019s tough being a nocturnal, but other times it\u2019s great!<\/p>\n

Saturday the 23rd \u2013 ZZZZZZZZZZZATURDAY! \u2013<\/span> Even though I had just taken her out for a potty break before we went to bed at 7, Roxy woke me up at 9:30 to go out again.  I took her out and we came back inside to go back to bed.  I ended up sleeping until 5pm, and it was much needed!  But when I got up, I REALLY got up!  I was energized and full of spit and vinegar!  I cleaned the Chaney bathroom, cleaned the kitchen, put away all the clean dishes, put the dirty dishes in the dishwasher, straightened up the living room\u2026I was rockin\u2019 it!  Then Sara came over just before movie night started and vacuumed the floors, put all the chairs and bean bags out and prepared for the guests.  I headed upstairs to grab a shower, and then start movie night.  We watched \u201cDirty Rotten Scoundrels\u201d on Blu Ray, and everyone really enjoyed it.  When the guests left I slept on the couch for a short while, then got up to feed Roxy and take her out for a walk.  Since I was limiting her water intake she was doing much better.  I did some work around the house and made a salad for my traditional \u201cSaturday Night Saint and Salad\u201d night.  I headed to bed with the animals and we watched an episode of \u201cThe Saint\u201d as I enjoyed the heck out of my killer salad!<\/p>\n

Sunday the 24th \u2013 THE KING OF THE KARS! \u2013<\/span> At 1:30 I sprang from my bed and walked Roxy. It was an absolutely stunning day!  I gave Spook and Roxy some treats then showered up.  I hopped in the Gran Torino and headed over to the shop of George Barris, the King of the Car Customizers!  George has built thousands of cars in his career, including the Batmobile, The Munster Koach, and others.  I was invited to his 88th birthday party, and I didn\u2019t want to miss it.  I pulled up alongside his shop on Riverside Drive in North Hollywood and marveled at all the cars that were on display outside.  I hadn\u2019t seen George in a long time so it was good to see him again.  After an hour or so I drove back home to get ready for evening church.  My friend Bonnie had driven in from Riverside to meet me for church so we grabbed Roxy and walked over for the evening service.  After church we walked Roxy back home and then headed over to the Coral Caf\u00e9 for dinner.  Bonnie headed back home and I took the opportunity to lay down on the couch for a quick nap by the fireplace.  I got up later and did a ton of auditions.  I fed and walked Roxy and hit the hay. No TV for me tonight. I needed several hours of sound sleep!<\/p>\n

And how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n

PIX FROM THE WEEK<\/p>\n

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\nMarilyn helps George Barris celebrate his 88th birthday!<\/p>\n

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\nThe King of Kar Kustomizers, is also the Birthday King!<\/p>\n

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\nHere’s how the Laurel and Hardy Halloween Boy will look with the lifesize figures.<\/p>\n

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\nDelightfully creepy, isn’t it?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wallysweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}