Mainly, my life today consists of swimming an hour a day, not smoking, and generally getting ready for ankle surgery March 4th...My webmaster has come up with a lot of great ideas for the site design and we've been having a blast giving this 12 year old site a Face Lift! 

Hope everyone will check out my new blog---it's still taking shape.  Be sure and check out my Oscar predictions before this coming Sunday and you can see if I'm on the money or way off base!

For the first time in the site's history I have put up a link's page.  Just a few of my very favorite sites..

THE HOME OF JONATHAN EDMONDSON AND KYLE PUGH  is often the gathering place for The Bessemer Historical Society of which Kyle is treasurer.   Each Christmas over the past four years Kyle and Jonathan transform this magnificent Victorian into the setting for one of the most fabulous Christmas palaces for their Holiday Party--the most sought after invitation of the season.  Click the link below for more photos from last year's bash. 

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Glenn with Dr. David Pollick, current President of Birmingham Southern College. " It was an emotional reunion celebrating the 40th anniversary of the building of the magnificent theater designed by my mentor and teacher, the late Dr. Arnold Powell and his collaborator and lighting designer John Kitchens.  With its split revolve turntable stage it became a model for The Lawrence Olvier Theater in London and is still the finest theater I have had the honor to tread the boards. I will be a guest lecturer for the drama department in 2009.  A great night of old friends and wonderful memories."

This article popped up out of nowhere and its funny now but at first I was livid.  There I was on the front page of my little small  town paper-an old photo of me on one side and my well known house on the other.  Trouble was no one knew I was living there and I had visions of a break-in and getting my throat cut for 50cents.  The old interview was pulled from the website and, of course, it looked like I was inviting the city of Bessemer to drop by anytime-----many have.  But now it just makes me smile.....

Leslie Jordan breezed into Bessemer fresh from his Emmy win on WILL & GRACE.  Louise Hall hosted a luncheon at Bessemer's Famous 101 year old BRIGHT STAR restaurant just a few blocks from my house before Leslie attended a $150 a plate dinner for Carl Stewart's Terrific NEW THEATRE ( KNOWN AS  TNT) It was a long day for Leslie.  He performed his show ADVENTURES DOWN THE PINK CARPET and then signed copies of the book.  (available at AMAZON) TNT had a sold-out adoring group of fans and then he was back on his tour. Quick but fast and Leslie LOVED my new digs and Birmingham LOVED LESLIE JORDAN.

the whole gang chow down in the legendary Bear Bryant room.

A lot of game plans were worked out on that table during the Bryant hey days.  "Louise Beard is THE FABULOUS REDHEAD--confidant to the stars!"

Read the Article in The Western Tribune about Leslie's visit to Bessemer here.

The article went on to talk about the progress made but the main quote made my point " I believe that today there are two major issues confronting society in regards Gay people. One is the right to have a civil OR a religious marriage with all the rights and responsibilities that entails.  This fear of the word marriage is just another way to infer "separate but equal" and we all know in our hearts that connotation means "second class marriage."  The other, and in many ways most important, is the right to serve openly in the armed forces. When you fight and die for the country you love it becomes difficult to be treated differently in civilian life. We are already there in every service.  Its a matter of honesty. I think the truth is well worth the adjustments the military could easily make.  Enough Politics! Where's my FLOAT!

Glenn and nephew Samuel Teer (student at Alabama School of Fine Arts) at The Birmingham AIDS Outreach Benefit in March 2007 holding a plate on which they collaborated that fetched a nice price for this worthy cause. Glenn began his association with BAO in 2005 with plates he and Catherine O'Hara created. Glenn will be playing host to his dear friend, the legendary actress and monologist Lily Tomlin during her visit to Birmingham in November and together they will enlist other celebrities to create plates for the 2008 auction.

Starting three years ago Glenn became involved with BIRMINGHAM AIDS OUTREACH and will be working with them again on several upcoming benefits.

Glenn and Jane Fonda in Marin County Ca.

Glenn is enjoying an extended sabbatical from film and television work as well as a break from life in Los Angeles and has taken a loft in downtown in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Writing , spending quality time with old friends, his extended family and exploring the profound changes in the state he left 30 years ago. " I have certainly experienced a culture shock that rivals what I experienced moving from Alabama to New York City in 1976." Glenn took a trip back west to San Francisco to open Bob Taicher's "SHUT YER DIRTY LITTLE MOUTH" in which he stars with Gil Gayle.

It was a small theatrical opening at the Roxy in San Francisco and The Elmwood in Berkeley. Critical response was terrific and business slow. Ah, show biz. While in the Bay Area Glenn joined Jane Fonda in a fundraiser for David Zeigers, NO, NO SIR, a documentary about the suppression of the stories of Vietnam Veteran's Against The War during the late 60's. At the screening in Mission Valley, Shadix joined the benefit audience, founders of the Veteran's movement, Fonda, Maria, Muldair and Holly Near singing the great old gospel hymn, Down By The Riverside (Aint gonna study war no more) " It was quite a moving evening with several Iraqi veteran's on hand."

Flew into Los Angeles November 1st to vote in the midterm election and visit with my dear friends Adam and Sara Biesk and meet their beautiful new baby girl, Emma.  Dropped by Michelle Phillips' Tuesday night to get the election returns and a hug from my favorite legend.

Shortly after returning to Alabama I got the word that Denny Doherty (lead tenor of The Mamas and Papas had passed away in Halifax Nova Scotia from kidney failure. Michelle attended the funeral in Halifax and in response to a letter I had written her she ended her missive simply with "Last one standing." Everyone loved Denny and he will be greatly missed.  I was very glad to have seen his one man show in New York called "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM."  It was after that we met for the last time for lunch with Michelle at Four Oaks in Belair in 2005.  He was in good health at the time and full of, as always, fabulous and hilarious stories to tell.  Denny's favorite song he sang with The Mamas and The Papas was the little known but hauntingly beautiful "Dancing Bear" but he will, I think always be best remembered for his soaring lead vocal on the group's biggest hit "Monday, Monday."  Good-bye with love and thanks dear Papa Denny.

Denny Doherty, Glenn, Michelle Phillips. Last Lunch with Papa Denny at Four Oaks.