Entries by Michael McClellan

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Vince Gill – Straight Shooter

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Vince Gill wasn’t born with a guitar in his hands, but the country music legend damn sure didn’t waste much time getting acquainted with one. Gill, who’s racked up 21 Grammy Awards (and counting), more than any other male performer in the history of country music, began plucking around […]

Joseph Poliquin – Dream Weaver

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Joseph Poliquin didn’t so much kick open the door to an acting career as he maneuvered his way through it, as if a willing participant dropped into one of those escape rooms, the kind that rewards instinct and improvisation rather than sheer force of will. It helps that the […]

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Meissa Hampton – Principled Actor

Written By: Michael D. McClellan Meissa Hampton has something to say. The award-winning actor is also an awarded poet who also happens to make socially significant (and award-winning) documentary films, her creative energy an amalgamation of Seimetz, Sappho, and the incomparable Barbara Kopple. With coronavirus raging and masks a political hot-button, Hampton is unwavering in […]

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Eric Braeden – Despicable V

Written By: Michael D. McClellan |Victor Newman wasn’t supposed to hang around the fictional town of Genoa City, Wisconsin, this long. The conniving businessman first appeared on CBS’s The Young and the Restless way back in 1980, when he was written into the plot for an eight-to-twelve week run. That was more than long enough […]