Melissa Gilbert became America’s sweetheart while portraying Laura Ingalls on the 1974 to 1983 Western drama series, Little ...

The other, Rob Lowe, was an up-and-coming actor with ... Come and trawl through the archives with Us… Back in 1978, Gilbert and Lowe, both now 60, were just 14 when they first met, albeit ...

Bruce Vilanch's new book, 'It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,' details his involvement in some of the most gloriously ...

Bruce Vilanch talks TV's worst moments in his new book 'It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,' from a Star Wars Christmas ...

But thanks to the Internet, his career curiosities refuse to die. In answer to the eternal questions, “How did that get made?” Vilanch has written a wonderful book, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with comedian Bruce Vilanch about his new book, "It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time," which details some of the worst television of the twentieth century and his role in it.

Meet your blind date, Rob Lowe. SIMON: The 1989 Oscars and Snow ... SIMON: I can't delay much longer - 1978 "Star Wars Holiday Special." VILANCH: I know. It's irresistible. (SOUNDBITE OF TV ...

Other hilarious scenarios Vilanch shares include working on the failed 1978 musical Platinum and ... infamous 1989 Oscar broadcast that found Rob Lowe cutting the rug with someone playing Snow ...

Though occasionally, he uses the book to explain why some of the ideas, like the 1978 musical “Platinum ... old Hollywood legends, and Rob Lowe. But like many of the other big personalities ...

In his non-Oscar life, he drove around in a yellow Mercedes convertible that was a gift from Universal for showing them how to sell "The Deer Hunter" (1978 ... White and Rob Lowe and “Proud ...