The Bio-Vlog

“Seated at my table again is Lori, karate Master John Douglas, stuntman Bobby Yerkes and writer-actress Kerry Jo. Can you all please share those crazy shuffling stories?”   “Yeah,” Jon, Lori says, “Growing up my brother would have me pretend to be a member of his…

Kevin says to me, “Pull up a chair.” These guys don’t know how poor my eyesight has become. For the druggies that don’t know me from the past, I use my fallback excuse for holding my cards so close. “I’m extremely farsighted and can’t see…

I ask real casual like, “Can I join your game?” I sense the four guys looking at me, trying to gauge just how much of a chump I may be.  “Have any cash, Little Rick?”  The inquirer’s name is Kevin, and the fact that he…

After watching John Scarne, I’m anxious to try out some new moves in a real gambling environment. So, I have Jim drive me to a card game in the mountains east of San Diego. It will be with a group of old drug dealers. I…

We are on the fourth week of a six week LP tour, and I’m very excited because the film, “The Sting “is playing in theaters throughout the country. At every stop along our tour, troupe member Glen Hansen and I buy tickets for the film.…

We are on the second week of a six week LP tour and we’re setting up to do a show at Boulder University. All the buildings have rocks sticking from the sides of the walls. And of course my first impulse is to start climbing…

Steve says compassionately, “Rick, I love you, brother, but you are looking off to the side of Randy and Lynn as you speak to them. I know you have trouble seeing them, but it doesn’t look right, Rick; it just doesn’t look right.  I know…

Steve Terrell and Glen Hansen are directing one of the scenes in which I’m in. Steve notices that I’m not looking toward the other actors; instead, I am seemingly staring off to the side of each actor as I recite my lines. Even though I…

My first director, Steve Terrell, is someone special. (Steve was a busy movie and television actor in the 1950s and early 1960s, starring in many films, as well as roles in many popular television series, including one of my old favorites, “Maverick.”)  Steve and his…

Apprehensively, I’m standing next to Douglas behind Sensei and Chuck Norris when I hear. “You have something to say to me?” growls Norris. Disrespectfully, still sitting on the floor, Gabriel snaps back, “I have nothing to say to you!” “Stand up when you address me!”…