SJM_Big_Daddy_0319_Big Daddy 2 / 28 / 19 12 : 21 PM Page 1 big words by BIG DADDY GRAHAM d ? For more information And The on Big Daddy Graham and his upcoming shows , visit BigDaddyGraham.com . Winners Are … missed being able to tell all her Hollywood played on oldies and satellite stations today . We just went through the friends that she just missed out on meeting Ask your “ Alexa ” to play it and it will . I used February awards season . me . ( Uh , yeah right . ) to DJ weddings and such back in the day Iget depressed every March and this soulful rocker never failed to pack when I realize I’ve missed Patti Smith : Raise your hand if you ever the dance floor . Would you believe I still yet another opportunity to thank my third wrote a hit record with Bruce Springsteen . own the 45 that I purchased back in ’ 67 on grade math teacher , Mrs . Ruppert ( cue the I didn’t think so . Well , this Pitman native that cool “ Kama Sutra ” label ? tears and the orchestra hurrying me off ) , did . I think you may have heard it , “ Because for “ without her I wouldn’t be standing up the Night , ” which has remained an in - con - John Eddie : Eddie , who moved to Cherry here accepting this award today . ” cert tune for both artists . She also attended Hill in his early teens , became so associated Music has the Grammys . Television has Rowan University when it was known as with Bruce Springsteen with hits like “ Jungle the Emmys while movies have the Oscars , Glassboro State College . She’s a poet , a Boy ” that he unfairly was labeled as a Golden Globes , SAG - Aftra awards and an writer , an extremely entertaining music “ Bruce wannabe . ” An extremely talented endless stream of other big nights out . historian when she appears on documen - artist in his own right , he’s been making a There’s the British Oscars , the “ Baftas , ” and taries , and one of the most ferocious rockers great buck as a songwriter churning out even the AARP has an award show now , the ever . When she was touring behind her hits for Kid Rock , amongst others , and is “ Movies for Grownup Awards . ” I swear I classic debut LP , Horses , she came to the still a tremendous performer today . went to order a pizza from Sal’s on Route 45 now - closed Bijou Café for four nights with the other night and they were closed for her full band and I went to all four nights . I Linda Fiorentino : This talented and sexy their own movie award show , “ The Sallys . ” had never seen a woman rock that hard Washington Township High alum is best And all these award shows take place in and true . A Rock and Roll Hall of Famer . known for Vision Quest and Men In Black , February for some unknown reason . but whatever you do , you must see The What cracks me up is that , despite the Bruce Willis : This Penns Grove High grad Last Seduction . It’s a con - artist flick and fact that they are ratings grabbers , there are went from being a security guard at the she’s just totally awesome in it . some people who don’t even remotely care Salem Nuclear Power Plant to being one about who wins and who loses anyway . It’s of the biggest movie stars in the world . Michael Landon : Did you know that only all about the red carpet . “ Tell me who you’re He got the acting bug in high school , Lucille Ball has appeared on the cover of wearing ? ” Mark my words , soon there will started bartending in Manhattan while TV Guide more often than Collingswood’s be an award show just for the clothes . Don’t auditioning , and even worked as a private own Michael Landon ? He had not one , laugh , it’s close to happening now . eye at one point , which I’m sure came in but three hit television series starting with So these are awards for artists from handy for his breakout role as David Ad - Bonanza , continuing with Little House on South Jersey . Not North Jersey . You got that ? dison in Moonlighting . Back in the ’ 90s the Prairie and ending with Highway To South Jersey . So don’t look for Frank Sinatra Willis came close to coming back home Heaven , a show I never even heard of that ( an Oscar winner ) or Bruce Springsteen . when he announced he was building an ran for five seasons . Very few TV shows last Forget about Meryl Streep , or Jack Nicholson entertainment complex in Penns Grove , five years . and Danny DeVito , even though I think it’s but alas , it never happened . He has shot Dig this fun fact . Landon actually broke wild they both grew up in Neptune . And a fair amount of films in the area and a United States record for the javelin throw even though James Gandolfini came to do since I’ve been in the nightclub business while attending Collingswood High . So commercials for Rutgers University and my entire life , I know many bartenders where did he find all that energy to father we have a South Jersey campus in Camden , and servers from that industry who had nine kids ? “ Tony Soprano ” still spent his childhood dealings with Willis and I’ve never heard in North Jersey . an unkind word about him . Ali Larter:What a career this talented and So in alphabetical order and with no beautiful Cherry Hill High School West regard to their age and when they did their I haven’t figured out what this award alum has had . She had pivotal roles in best work , here are the winners of the First - statue would look like ; perhaps a tollbooth three franchises : TV’s Heroes and the film Ever South Jersey Awards . or a seashell . But that’s my list for seven series Final Destination and Resident Evil . South Jerseyites I would I make appearances at the PJ Whelihan’s Billy Harner : “ The Human Percolator ” give an award to . Did I in Maple Shade every Tuesday during Isn’t that a dynamite moniker ? Pine Hill’s miss anyone ? If I did , let Phillies season and a while back I arrived Harner had a monster hit with “ Sally’s me know by writing me at and was told that Larter had eaten there Sayin ’ Somethin ’ ” back in the summer of n BigDaddy295 @ aol.com . earlier in the day . Just think , she narrowly 1967 and this stone cold classic is still being SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 15 issue 12 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 80 |