After the ramp-up to my first audition and the Lego debacle, I started getting sporadic auditions. Finally, I booked my first commercial with my brother Jonathan sometime in 1974. It was a local spot…
Year: 2012
Blog posts
Eating With The Stars: Just In Time For Those “Summer Nights”: Olivia Newton-John’s Tamaramma Tuna Salad
Oh-livia! What is it about your lovely essence that makes me think of Spring and all things healthy and positive? The blooms of May have inspired me to share what strikes me as a…
Janis Ian’s Between the Lines: The Saddest Album Ever
Remember the Columbia Record Club? If you’re too young to remember, “CRC” and its brethren—the RCA Record Club etc.— were mail-order divisions of the major record labels that enticed you to join with a…
A Tribute to LaToya Jackson’s Step Up, Plus Her Uber-Fattening Recipe For “Creamy Apple Dessert” in Eating With The Stars
“The fat is just burning off and the muscle tones are coming there, they’re not there yet, but they’re coming!” One of the very best things about the 1980s was that everybody who…
Notes From The Honeycomb Hideout, Part One: Hatching the Plan
As a kid the number one question I was asked was “how’d you get on TV?” It all began in 1973 when, by a stroke of luck, my father came home from work…
Eating With The Stars: Jack Jones’ Coquilles St. Jacques
I happened upon this creamy scallop recipe by two-time Grammy winner Jack Jones (best known as the singer of The Love Boat theme), the very same day I revised this piece I wrote last…
The Worst Internship of All-Time, or Annie Liebowitz Hates Me
“Annie Liebowitz hates me!” So began my journal entry of May 9, 1986. I was just about to graduate from N.Y.U. and complete a semester-long internship with iconic filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, who was best…
Cassingle White Female: The Stargayzing Mix Tape Explosion!
Cassette tapes: they broke, they melted, they got dirty, they unspooled and they they sounded terrible. Other than that they were awesome! It’s hard to imagine anyone could feel nostalgic for an audio format…
The Streisand Effect: How an Iconic American Voice Helped Me Find My Own
The Streisand persona, a powerful tonic for all the world’s exceptional outcasts, was delineated by an biding belief that outsiders could achieve not only mainstream acceptance, but massive cultural impact. This coping mechanism appealed to me in commensurate proportion to my sadness, which is to say, extensively.
In the Attic with Connie Stevens and Tab Hunter; Plus: 2 Connie Stevens Recipes in Eating With The Stars
When I grew up and actually moved across country to begin my career in show business, it seemed at once inevitable and unbelievable that I found myself in some of the strange Hollywood places…
My First Celebrity Endorsement! The Legendary Jackie Collins Says davidmunk.com is “Hilarious!”
I was so thrilled to see that Jackie Collins reprinted the piece I wrote about our fun in the recording studio recording the gayest song of all time . So glad to see that…
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