Dragnet

Before his collaborations with Steven Spielberg, before his Oscars and before That awful hair in The Da Vinci Code, Tom Hanks was Hollywood’s go-to-guy when it came to playing lovable goofballs. It was a charming schtick that he worked to perfection in 80s comedies such as The ‘Burbs, Dragnet and The Money Pit, and never to better effect than in 1988’s Big. The classic tale of a 13-year-old boy that wishes to be big only to wake the next morning as a fully grown 35-year-old is total wish fulfillment stuff. As an overgrown kid Hanks gets to breeze about and most enviously of all gets to play a giant foot-operated piano at famed New York toy store Fao Schwarz. And now we’ll all get to have a look (if not a go) on the colossal musical instrument as it has been donated to a children’s museum in Philadelphia,

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I was in the post office the other day and saw one of the "coming soon" ads for stamp collections that were on the way. It was too distant for me to make out exactly what it was, but one of the upcoming collections was dedicated to the golden age of TV. And now Sci Fi Wire has better quality images and more information about those stamps.

The set includes Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance, the Lone Ranger, Burns and Allen, Ozzie and Harriet, original Tonight Show host Steve Allen, Jackie Gleason and Art Carney, Alfred Hitchcock, Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, Jack Webb from Dragnet, Lassie, Red Skelton, Uncle Miltie, Dinah Shore, Groucho Marx, Phil Silvers, from the world of puppets, Kukla, Fran, and Ollie as well as Howdy Doody, William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, and Rod Serling.
Most of those names are familiar to you if you're over, say,
Colin Boyd

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Chicago – Blues Brother and “Ghostbusters” star Dan Aykroyd recently took time to pose for the the HollywoodChicago.com lens on March 28, 2009 before meeting fans and fine wine connoisseurs alike. Aykroyd was in Chicago to promote his new Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay wines at Binny’s Beverage Depot in Chicago’s South Loop.
Dan Aykroyd has starred in “The Blues Brothers,” “Trading Places,” “The Coneheads,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Ghostbusters,” “Caddyshack II,” “Ghostbusters II,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “My Girl,” “My Girl 2,” “Dragnet,” “Grosse Pointe Blank,” “Blues Brothers 2000,” “Pearl Harbor,” “50 First Dates,” “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” and many more films. Our exclusive portrait of Dan Aykroyd in Chicago can be found below.

Dan Aykroyd in Chicago on March 28, 2009 to promote his new Cabernet Sauvignon
and Chardonnay wines at Binny’s Beverage Depot in Chicago’s South Loop.
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.
adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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