happy sixtieth birthday brett climo

 

I vaguely recall meeting Brett Climo. I think it's possible that he was the guy who I interviewed at Bondi Beach, we did a photo session at Bondi, and some old women came up to him and said 'we love you! Who are you?'

Anyway, he played Michael Langley in A Country Practice from '87-89, I'm fairly sure that's why I did this. What it was for I'm not sure but what's anything for? 

judy nunn presumably late 1987 or early 1988

 

jacqui o'sullivan sometime in the late 1980s

 

That dolphins thing is super stupid. 

danielle carter from richmond hill 1988

So apparently I talked to Danielle Carter who was Ashley Paske's love interest on Richmond Hill (this would have been in the first half of 1988). I have absolutely no recollection of this, whether it was in person or on the phone, but what I do know is sometimes you'd be on set waiting for one actor and then the publicist would say, 'while you're waiting, do you want to talk to so-and-so', and there's every possibility that so-and-so in this case was Danielle Carter. Or, perhaps we were going to do a feature on Ashley Paske and some bright spark said, get a few words from Danielle Carter and we can put a little box in the corner with some quotes. I am sure that what is here is not the only bits I wanted to use out of a long discussion, is my point, and I'm also sure that what's here is a sign of sexist times in the late 80s, but also, does it matter much? No. 

omd in '88

OK so I know you've been loving the soap stars but how about a li'l bit of music. I do actually like OMD quite a bit and it looks like this is from early 1988 when they released their first greatest hits album. Though unlabelled of course this is an interview with Paul Humphreys, it says precisely nothing that would interest anyone who has any particular knowledge of OMD but whatever, I can throw it away or I can stick photographs of it on here and then throw it away. Enjoy. 

ashley paske # 2

 

All pretty self-explanatory really. Well, the one thing that isn't self-explanatory is why Smash Hits then sent me off to interview Ashley Paske a second time even though we had no guarantee he'd ever be on TV again. Or why I, at some point, transcribed this interview. Whatevs. He was a nice guy as I said. I interviewed him a third time at some other point when he was on Neighbours and living in St Kilda. 

ashley paske

 

Stolen from https://www.curnow.org/2004/04/where-is-ashley-paske/

I liked Ashley Paske. He was on Richmond Hill, a channel 10 show that lasted a year, and he was then on Neighbours for a while and then he disappeared, kind of, but not in a leave-me-alone way, he just stopped acting and, apparently, stopped wanting to act, and he seems mainly to be a bar manager now. He seems to be 'in a good place' emotionally which is the thing you first think of, isn't it. 

All of the above was typed on the back of Magazine Promotions letterhead. If memory serves, MP was the Sydney office for the various Fairfax magazines which were all ordered up to Sydney holus bolus in around 1987 and somehow I came into possession of a massive amount of its letterhead which I used as scrap paper for years afterwards. 

Stay tuned for more Ashley Paske soon!!!