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Bertha Venation

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61. June Lockhart, Jackson Browne, Penny Marshall
Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:28 PM
Oct 2013

I was one of the first (my mother said I was THE first) infants in California to have open-heart surgery. June Lockhart, probably in a publicity thing, visited me in the hospital. (Whippersnappers, google "Lost In Space.&quot (1963 or 64)

At age 13 I'd been playing the guitar for about a year, and performed with my teacher at my K-8 school's talent show. (I was pretty good back then. ) In the audience was the cousin of one of my classmates, Jackson Browne. With me by his side, my teacher sought out and met Browne. He told him something I didn't understand at the time; he said, "Jackson, you wrote my life, man." (1976)

My brother and I were at the batting cages one day when there was someone there handing out passes to a pre-release screening of a baseball movie. We said "hell, yeah" and took the passes. After the movie (which turned out to be "The Natural&quot , we ran into Penny Marshall in the parking lot and went to her to say hi. She was really nice. She said "What did ya think of the sco-ah?" (score - her New York accent really is that thick.) I almost said "It was 3-2, they won," but before I opened my stupid mouth I realized she was talking about the music. (1984? -5?)

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