Bio-Vlog

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 talks for the table tells me he’s still the reigning…

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 was told they play poker every Saturday and I’m hoping…

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. Glen will sit in the neck-breaking front row so I…

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 straight up the building. Bernelle Hansen, the Lamb’s Players stage…

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 you can’t see anything forward, but do you think you…

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 am engaged in the scene, my sensitive ears never miss…

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 troupe stop by my place.  Steve says, thrilled with the…

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!” barks Norris. Gabriel, with three of his fighters and Lloyd…

“Sitting at my table is Lamb’s Players director and former TV and film personality Steve Terrell.  Steve can you share when you met Richard and some of his early characteristics?” “Well, sure, Jon, It was in 1972 when I was introduced to Rick. It’s no doubt that meeting a hippy was a culture shock for…

Norris is fed-up; he has had enough of all the disrespect! He stops everything and approaches Gabriel. Murphy sees that trouble is brewing and sidles up next to Norris. Douglas quickly moves in behind Norris. I stand on Douglas’s left, following behind Murphy. We are not even sure if Norris knows we have his six.…

Sensei Murphy is hosting a tournament at the Tijuana Forum, and he has invited the great Chuck Norris to be our Master of Ceremonies. (Master Norris started learning martial arts after joining the Air Force in 1958, one year after Sensei Murphy started his fighting career. Once Norris began competing, he was a nonstop fighting…

I ask Sensei, pleading, yet trying to show no fear, “Can I fight opponents my own size when testing for my brown belt? I am aware that I am outclassed by Crook, Douglas, Napoleon, along with many of your other big fighters down south in Tijuana.”  Murphy considers my request and is empathetic, so he…