A decade of decadence and debauchery were coming to a close. Dad wasn't doing well either in the late 1970s. He looked worn out,...

In late 1992 I found out that Liza Minnelli would be performing at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. Liza had played many big venues, and...

It's surprising that Brian Wilson would be the last surviving sibling of a band that defined rock music throughout much of the 1960s and...

I was 18 and babysitting 8-year-old twins in the San Fernando Valley. Normally on a Friday night I would be out with friends hitting...

LA is its own universe. It attracts monsters and angels, the forgotten and the famous. Sure it exists in the physical world. Just as...

I had seen Dennis Wilson numerous time at parties and backstage at Beach Boys concerts in the 1970s. But it was some time before I really...

I spent many days in 1976 tanning and swimming on the sun-drenched beaches of Malibu, California. I was 20. It seemed that I lived along...

My Summer Tour with The Beach Boys It was the summer of 1983. Dad was gone and I was was in-between marriages. Living in Marina del Rey,...

It was 1990. I was living in Manhattan and had only been married to my second husband for a year. A veterinarian by trade, Adrian...

Dad worked on numerous westerns, with his favorite being Red River. The 1948 Howard Hawks film starred John Wayne and was filmed in...

Living in Los Angeles had its perks. Not only was Hollywood a big part of my life but so was Las Vegas. My family loved to spend long...

Barry and I were packing for our trip up to Ferndale, CA. , a long but gorgeous drive up the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway). There is...

I begged Mama to take me to see the new 007 movie, Thunderball. I was only nine, but already had a crush on Sean Connery. Thunderball...

1978 was a busy time. When I wasn't engaged on a feature film, I was working on various TV shows. M.A.S.H was the best! Barry (my ex)...

Let's go back to 1977 for a minute. I was 21 and living with my friends in Santa Monica, CA. Parties were a plenty. Fun was the central...

It was 1978. Dad had started production of Irwin Allen’s “The Swarm”, another disaster film with an all star cast: Michael Caine,...

When I left home, I had a feeling of freedom I'd never known. And yet I still felt pangs of guilt over leaving Mama and my beloved...

One more school year to go and I would be free! By the time September of ’73 rolled around I was ready for it to be over. I was weary of...

It was June of 1973.  Dad  was on a desperately needed hiatus after working many long months on The Poseidon Adventure. "That picture was...

Marlborough High School was interesting, challenging but not really “me”.  My sophomore year in 1971-72 was more or less uneventful,...