Entries by Michael McClellan

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Ed Asner – Staying Power

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Born 17 days after the stock market crash that plunged the United States into the Great Depression, it’s fair to say that acting legend Ed Asner has seen it all. A winner of 7 Primetime Emmy Awards, making him the most honored male performer in television history, Asner has […]

Robert Parish – The Chief

Written By:  Michael D. McClellan | His NBA journey begins during the US Bicentennial and ends 21 seasons later, during Bill Clinton’s second term as President.  He arrives as disco is heating up, plays through the Michael Jackson-dominated ‘80s, and is still balling when Tupac is gunned down on the Vegas Strip in ‘96, winning […]

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Keb’ Mo’ – Storyteller

By:  Michael D. McClellan | The blues was born at the turn of the twentieth century, in the Mississippi Delta and other regions of the Deep South, a reminder of hard times brought on by the burdens of slavery, the Great Depression, and just being black. Those who played the blues did so from a place of […]

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Gerald Webb – From Scratch

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Gerald Webb arrived in Hollywood the way you might expect, landing in Playa del Rey with the same dreams that others have packed into well-worn suitcases countless times before him, the odds stacked overwhelmingly against his outsized ambition, an unforgiving film industry primed to grind him up and spit […]