Wednesday, 22 December 2021
Tuesday, 21 December 2021
Hush Little Baby - Cast of Fame
"Hush Little Baby" comes from the season 4 episode "Blizzard" and is performed by Valerie Landsburg, Debbie Allen, Ken Swofford, Carol Mayo Jenkins and Madlyn Rhue.
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Monday, 20 December 2021
Kids from Fame 10 Questions with Tom Urie Full Interview
Tom Urie has interviewed the Fame cast for a special video in association with Fame U.K. Reunion answering 10 Question. Featuring interviews with Michael Cerveris, Loretta Chandler, Cynthia Gibb, Carol Mayo Jenkins, Valerie Landsburg and PR Paul.
Enjoy the full Interviews:
Cynthia Gibb in My Dog's Christmas Miracle
Cynthia Gibb stars with Fame guest star Greg Evigan in the 2011 Christmas Movie: "My Dog's Christmas Miracle".
Friday, 17 December 2021
Thursday, 16 December 2021
Out Run The Night Japanese Version
"Out Run The Night" comes from the Season 4 episodes "Blizzard" and "School Is Out". It was also sung again in the season 5 episode "Savage Streets".
Written by Rick Kelly it is performed by Nia Peeples.
I believe Fame did the original version but this is the original recorded version.
This is a Beautiful Japanese version of "Out Run The Night" performed by MINAKO with WILDCATS from 1989.
10 Questions Loretta Chandler
Tom Urie has interviewed the Fame cast for a special video in association with Fame U.K. Reunion. Here's a teaser for the interview Loretta Chandler.
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
10 Questions Michael Cerveris
Tom Urie has interviewed the Fame cast for a special video in association with Fame U.K. Reunion. Here's a teaser for the interview with Michael Cerveris.
Tuesday, 14 December 2021
Somebody Must Be Grinning Down On Me David Pomeranz
"Somebody Must Be Grinning Down On Me" comes from the season 4 episode Blizzard" where it was performed by Gene Anthony Ray.
Written by David Pomeranz, he didn't actually record it until 2000 when he released his album "The Eyes Of Christmas". The lyrics are slightly different, which gives the song a more Christmasy feel.
"I Feel A Fancy Tingle Down To My Toes,
And With Every Step It Grows and it Grows.
I'm Oh So Happy Well I Just Know,
Somebody Must Be Grinning Down On Me.
Winter Wind Is Blowing Snow Through My Hair,
I'm Cold And I'm Wet But I Don't Care.
I Feel So Sunny Today I Swear,
Somebody Must Be Grinning Down On Me.
People Bustling By,
Pretty Girls All Catch My Eye.
I'm Such a Lucky Guy.
The Whole World's Sublime,
At Christmas Time.
I'm Feeling Kind Of Drunk,
But I Don't Touch A Drop.
I Smile Like A Fool,
And I Can't Stop.
Because I'm As High With Love As I Can Be.
Somebody Must Be Grinning Down On Me.
Ooooh Baby,
Well All My cash Has Slipped Away,
I've Got A Stack Of Bills To Pay.
On This Sweet Holiday,
There's No One Who Could Be As Rich As Me.
So Tell Your Friends And Neighbours,
Try Not To Stare.
At The Magical Man,
Ten Feet In The Air.
Cause There's So Much I Was Born To Be,
Somebody Must Be Grinning Down.
Flashing A Smile All Over Town,
Somebody Must Be Grinning Down On Me.
Yeah Yeah Yeah,
That's Right!"
10 Questions Cynthia Gibb
Tom Urie has interviewed the Fame cast for a special video in association with Fame U.K. Reunion. Here's a teaser for the interview with Cynthia Gibb.
Monday, 13 December 2021
10 Questions PR Paul
Tom Urie has interviewed the Fame cast for a special video in association with Fame U.K. Reunion. Here's a teaser for the interview with PR Paul.
Greg Crandall - Character of the Month
Gregory Andrew Crandall was the drama teacher at the
High School For Performing Arts, who we first meet in the episode “Alone In The
Crowd”.
He graduated from college with a major in English and
then spent time working on Broadway as a stage manager before turning his hand
to teaching.
Greg was in his mid fifties; He was married with two
teenage children and in “The Strike” has
to join the strike in order to have enough money to support his family.
He was a kind and caring teacher, who goes out of his
way to support his students and help them learn the skills they need to become
better actors.
Greg had a dry sense of humour and often defuses situations
with a joke. He also plays a little jazz piano whilst delivery a comedy routine.
Grey was full of zest, joy and laughter and he was not
one for sentiment. He doesn’t like grand gestures. In “A Special Place” he is
chosen to be the teacher the school lets go to meet the budget cuts and we discover
he doesn’t like the idea of a goodbye party. His intention was to leave the
school with as little fuss as possible and only reluctantly does along with the
party plans. Knowing that it will make it harder for him to leave and say
goodbye.
He also doesn’t like the fact that the other teachers
proposed to forgo their pay rises to try to save his job. Although tremendously
grateful for them thinking of him he doesn’t want people to make sacrifices for
him.
Greg was also pragmatic and realistic. Rather than be
swayed by sentimental reasons to do things he sticks to the practical and
logical. In “Street Kid” he believes that the school should stick to the proper
procedures for auditioning students rather than making an exception. While in “The
Crazies” rather than cancel the senior students showcase because Mr Shorofsky
is in the hospital he advocates it needs to continue because it could have
severe consequences for those taking part if they don’t get the grades they
need for future projects.
In “Come One Come All”, we learn that he suffers with
a back problem and is hospitalised. He has his own style of shorthand that
comes from years of working in the theatre but that makes it hard for people
who don’t have his experience to understand.
Although supportive of all his students he has a particular
bond with comedian Danny Amatullo. Their sense of humour connects them and Danny
is Greg’s favourite student.
In “A Tough Act To Follow”, Greg Crandall doesn’t
arrive for class and we discover he had a heart attack in the night and was
taken to Mercy hospital but later died. The
show that the school were working on that Greg had been part of goes ahead, to
respect that he would never want it cancelled on his behalf.
Sunday, 12 December 2021
Friday, 10 December 2021
Thursday, 9 December 2021
Blizzard - Broadcast Dates - Trivia of the Week
Broadcast Dates For Blizzard
USA 3rd November 1984
U.K. 25th March 1985
repeated on The Children's Channel Autumn 1992
France 25th January 1996
Let us know the Broadcast dates for your Country
Armando Huerta - Crew Member of the Month
Armando Huerta
Armando M. Huerta was born Mario Armando Huerta on 27th May 1951 in Fresno County California. He was an assistant director who started working professionally in the late 70s.
In 1979 he got his first credit as a second assistant director on a film called "Walk Proud".
In the early 80s he worked as an assistant on a number of America TV shows and TV movies, including: "Remington Steel", "Emergency", "The Gambler" and "Coward of the County".
In 1981 he started working on the first season of "Fame" as Second Assistant Director. His duties included creating the daily call sheets from the production schedule, in cooperation with the production coordinator. The "second" also serves as the "backstage manager", liaising with actors, putting cast through make-up and wardrobe, which relieves the "first" of these duties.
For the second season he was promoted to First Assistant Director. The "first" is directly responsible to the director and "runs" the floor or set. They responsibilities are to keep the production on schedule throughout the day, communicate to the entire crew, and to maintain the safety and security of the staff and shot itself. An assistant director must be very good at estimating how long a scene will take.
In total Armando worked on 33 episodes of "Fame".
One day Armando tripped on the Fame set and then he came to work with an eye patch over one eye, saying he had eye problems. He was also having issues with his perception which is what had caused him to trip over.
Production Assistant Donna Lee had seen similar problems with her Sister who had cancer that had spread to her brain and had had issues with her perception. Donna had to talk to Armando to tell him and ask him to get a doctor's diagnosis.
Armando finished work on the episodes"Spontaneous Combustion" and didn't return. He Died on Thursday 6th September 1984 aged 33, in Los Angeles.
The season 4 episode "Blizzard" was dedicated to Armando.
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Fame U.K. Reunion Tickets Pre Sale
Ticket Pre Sale for fans signed up to the Fame U.K. Reunion Mailing List starts today at 10.00am U.K. Time.
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