Who knew?

I used to watch Taxi many years ago. Many, many years ago,. It's on our local nostalgia station here in Cheyenne, and I watch it occasionally now...my Tony the taxi driver wore tight pants.

On the other hand I've always disliked the character Jim, even though apparently that character was very popular and shot actor Christopher Lloyd to stardom. The character's brain is fried from too much drug use during the 1960s. I would've thought that that would be a salutory lesson to everyone watching, but apparently not so.

(In the same way, an actor named Jan Michael Vincent. I can remember, as a young girl, getting a crush on him as Nanu in The World's Greatest Athlete. But apparently he was an alcoholic for decades and now when you see him he can barely talk, let alone think - although that might be due to the car accident he was in - driving while under the influence. Just a tragedy to see these folks waste their lives, and pretty damn irritating to me. I've got a cousin who has had MS for decades and is now in a wheelchair... what she couldn't have done with her life if not for this disease which she got through no fault of her own....then I look at these people with their self-inflicted diseases, whining about how tough life is, and I just want to kick them. Several times.

Anyway, back to the point of this post. Marilu Henner, the actress, is one of 20 people in the world with "super memory" - to use the layperson's term for it. She can remember everything that happened in her life from a young age. And she's a consultant on the show Unforgettable, which has a character that can do that too, and she apparently has a role as a relative of the lead character, who has Alzheimer's. (And what a horrible disease that is.)

So I was checking her out on Wikipedia, and turns out she's written 6 diet books. Of course she advocates a non-dairy regime, which I think is a bit extreme, but here's the relavant bit from her entry:

Henner has written eight books on diet and health, the most prominent being Total Health Makeover, in which she explains the virtues of a non-dairy diet in conjunction with food combining and exercise. She leads monthly classes on her website, www.marilu.com, designed to help people integrate these steps into a healthier, more active lifestyle. Both of her parents died in their 50s, which prompted her to lead a healthier lifestyle.

Check out her webiste at http://marilu.com