Rebecca is looking forward to visiting with lots of Knight Rider friends at Southern Knights Atlanta on July 28.  Hope you can make it!

Visit http://www.southernknightsatlanta.com/ for more information.

The 2012  Las Vegas Knight Rider Festival was incredible—the event just seems to get better every year!

In attendance were John Schneider from “Dukes of Hazzard”, Paul Michael Glaser from “Starsky & Hutch”, Claudia Wells from “Back to the Future”, Erik Estrada from” CHiPs”, Fred Williamson from “The Hammer”, and my dear friends, Peter Parros of “Knight Rider” and the brilliant Mike Scheffe, who designed both KITT and the Back to the Future cars.  The parade included a fabulous line-up of Star Cars, representing many of our most beloved movie and television show automobiles. The Knight Rider fans brought their KITT replicas and were joined by the General Lee, the Batmobile, Ponch’s motorcycle, the A-Team Van, Starsky’s Torino, the Green Hornet, Black Beauty, Herbie the Love Bug, and Back to the Future’s DeLorean.  Especially moving for all of us to see were the 911 Angel Cruisers, Chevy Camaros inscribed with the names of the 911 victims and first responders.  It was quite a spectacle down Fremont street!  Everyone there agreed it was certainly a fitting commemoration to pay homage to these original television shows and movies recognized worldwide.

The Grammy Museum honored Dionne Warwick in celebration of her 50 years in Music.  Dionne’s exhibit was unveiled and then Clive Davis and Burt Bacharach joined her in the Clive Davis Theater for a round table discussion, which was filmed for the museum archives.  The stories and anecdotes they told about their long-time collaboration were memorable, funny and quite touching.  All three of them are legends in the music business, and when at last Burt went to the piano to accompany Dionne on “This Girl’s in Love With You”,  it was the icing on the cake of a most historic evening!

The Night of 100 Stars Oscar party at the Beverly Hills Hotel was a remarkable evening. It was fun seeing so many friends as we enjoyed watching the Oscars together in the ballroom. Among those in attendance were Mark Harmon, John O’Hurley, Connie Stevens, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., Frankie Valli, Martin Landau, Richard Dreyfuss, Gary Busey and Jake Busey, Diane Ladd, Mary Wilson of the original Supremes, best-selling author Mark Bego (who has written Whitney Houston’s recent biography), Robert Wuhl (with whom I had worked on a televison show called “Sniff” with a dog and in which I was flung into a swimming pool!), Ken Davitian from the movies “Borat” and “The Artist”, which of course had a stellar night and won Best Picture, and our generous party host, Norby Walters.

(Pictured above left with Joel Diamond and Ken Davitian)

A day for reflection:  Visiting the new construction site at Ground Zero in NYC.  The new year is always a time to look toward the future…with the insights and wisdom gleaned from the past.  May your 2012 be filled with new heights!

Much Love,

Rebecca

The Military of World Wars Annual Red White & Blue Ball held at the Reagan Library was an incredible evening.  It was a privilege to perform at the ceremony for the POW’s & MIA’s, a very moving experience, as was the moment the audience of our military heroes joined in with me on the final chorus of “God Bless America”.

There were many of “America’s greatest generation” in attendance, including the WWII paratrooper Rosie Nolan, who survived D-Day and  the Battle of the Bulge and also served in the Pacific arena.  His three brothers served as well, one of whom served under Patton and received three purple stars. He even showed me the very toy clicker he used on D-Day. He explained to me that in the darkness, the soldiers would  go “click-click”.  He said, “If you hear a click-click in return, you know you’re OK. If you don’t hear it, you shoot him.”