I was watching Oprah today and the entire Osmond family was on-all 125 of them flew in to be on the show in Chicago. Marie is a month older than me. I watched the Donny and Marie show, mostly while babysitting. I was compared to her and my younger brother Don to Donny. We both could sing-dance, not so much. So here’s when I get all wet in the eyes-when they showed the brothers all singing, ‘He Ain’t Heavy, he’s my brother’ with old videos in the background (the 70s was not a good decade for costume design). The one brother Alan isn’t well and had a chair behind him, but he performed and smiled as always. Then it occurred to me, I’m in that age group and they were celebrating 50 yrs of performing!

I like the doll Marie had made for Oprah-her as a little girl. I’d love one of me! Too cute. I also felt bad as they had just lost their dad and when Donny cries, well I’m going to cry too. I did notice that one of Donny’s nephews looks just like him, more than his own sons. Funny how genetics works. Good luck on your tour guys! Marie, no more fainting.

The 6 degrees of separation game-actually 2 with Marie! Seems that when she was in the tour of ‘The Sound of Music’ back in the 90s, that the costume designer, the late Jonathan Bixby did this show and he graduated from high school with me! I am also a couple of degrees from John Travolta (I did ‘meet’ him at a car show in Philly as a teen and got his autograph) and Todd Robinson, from my class directed him in a movie lately; and Kate Jackson, an actress from my class, Denice Hicks was in a movie with her and Janine Turner. I talk to Denice on MySpace and she’s really sweet. Neat,huh?

BTW, I was a Bobby Sherman and Hudson Brother fan back in the day.