Pat Gallagher

Baby boomers have great memories. Our recollection of making mud pies in the back yard, watching television together with the whole family in our living rooms, going to the movies to see our favorite movie stars or listening to our favorite Top 40 AM radio station in the car are...

OK, who would have ever thought a fictional yellow canary who came into our lives 70 years ago would have a first cousin who is blue and calls himself "Twitter"?

I just made that up. I'm searching for Twitter friends and I'm failing miserably, so I embellish to get attention.

Veteran character actor Rance Howard, 83, is a happy man. He isn't exactly a household name, but his face is one you've seen thousands of times. Perhaps best known for playing Henry Boomhauer for two seasons in the television series "Gentle Ben," his 64-year acting career has included roles in...

Mick Jagger has reportedly slept with 4,000 women. Gene Simmons claims he has bedded 4,800 women. I don't want to hurt their feelings, but I'd rather have sex with Pinocchio.

If I seem defensive, it's because Mick Jagger wouldn't touch me with a 12-foot dinosaur penis....

Paul McCartney once confessed, "I just like being in love."

Seriously. Who the heck doesn't? I know I do. The problem is, I don't remember what that feels like anymore. The butterflies that were once flickering merrily inside my stomach when I fell in love in my youth...

The passing of one of the greatest "down home" actors of all time -- Andy Griffith -- brings to mind that, sadly, many of the actors who lived in the fictional town of Mayberry, NC are no longer with us. Perhaps they are all now reunited in that great "Mayberry"...

Unlike you and I, comedy never gets old. In fact it's actually very healthy to laugh -- I think some old scientist in Iowa, who studied human behavior in his motor home, said laughter can increase your life span by decades. He died laughing at the age of 132 while...

Here's my little disclaimer. I've covered hundreds of celebrities for over 25 years as a freelance journalist... on red carpets, celebrity events, premieres, tons of one-on-one interviews both in person and via telephone. I covered an event in Washington, D.C. several years ago, where Alec Baldwin was in attendance. I...

Who would you fork out your hard-earned money on to go see in concert? Most likely Justin Bieber... Britney Spears, Usher, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Buble and, well, just roll off the list. There are a boatload of artists who play to packed...

We recently revealed 20 celebrity couples who have been married 25 years or more. Actress Marlo Thomas wrote a sweet tribute about her own marriage to the love of her life, Phil Donahue. The two lovebirds just celebrated 32 years of wedded bliss on May 21st.

Everybody has to pay their dues -- whether it is in business or the entertainment field -- before they make it to the top. In theory. Of course, child actors and (some) reality stars are two exceptions (I won't name any famous reality stars because I'll break out in a...

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan kicked off the wedding season this past weekend with their surprise nuptials in the backyard of their Palo Alto, California home. Since they met in 2004 at Harvard, well before Zuckerberg earned his billions, we're pulling for them to celebrate decades of wedded bliss one...

Not all of us know what it is like to have a celebrity son or daughter, but it's interesting to pick the brain of a mother who has shared the "stage" with a famous offspring. And who better to talk to than Faye Parker (or better known as Clay Aiken's...

It saddened my heart to hear of George Lindsey's death. He brought to life one of my favorite character actors of all time -- Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show -- and I had the pleasure of interviewing him two years ago when I was doing a piece about...

When we were children, we never even thought about turning 50 years old. The milestone birthdays are one, 13 (because you're finally a teenager), sweet 16, 21, 30 and then every birthday that has a zero in it.

The big 5-0 is, for some reason, a wake-up call that "act...

It was so easy to keep in touch with my four children when they were living at home... let's say between the ages of birth and 18. They all lived under our roof and daily communication was a way of life -- until they all reached the age of 12...

So when I'm lying in bed at night, my nose whistles. I think that started when I was 52 and a half. I can't explain it, but it has to do with aging because that particular sound didn't come out of my nostrils in my 20s, 30s or 40s. It...

In 1957 real men didn't wear earrings or beaded necklaces or jeans that showed off the bottom of their butt crack while they were standing up. Dear God! Grandmothers didn't wear funky T-shirts and tight blue jeans, and they wouldn't be caught dead without white gloves at church on Sunday....

Reality shows be gone... well, most of them. Maybe it's time to bring back Ponderosa and Dodge City to television because reality shows aren't quite as good as they use to be. Remember a reality-based show called This Is Your Life with Ralph Edwards? Ralph surprised...

Rock and roll -- what a concept. The pillars of uptight communities all across Northern America back in the '50s were yelling, "Rock and roll has got to go!" In their distorted wisdom. They thought that this vibrant, loud, feel-good music was somehow going to corrupt the world.

Dance crazes...