An Academy Award-winning director once proclaimed the Oscars to be “the greatest promotion scheme that any industry ever devised for itself.” The idea of the good people of Hollywood concocting an event for their own self-aggrandizement is…not surprising. But take a moment to consider the surprising number of similarities between the Oscars and another grand old time created by and for a particular group—the tree house club of childhood (here I am referring to the mythic ideal of tree houses found in pop culture of the last several decades, not to any actual experiences you may have had). Think about it—as a kid, when you wanted to become a member of the most elite of clubs—the kind of club where business was conducted in a tree house—you had to fulfill some stiff criteria first. To start with, as a rule, gender matters. Just recall the ubiquity of NO GIRLS (or BOYS) ALLOWED signs in the narratives of our youth, whether in Nickelodeon shows, movies or the neighbor’s backyard. Once you managed to be the right gender, you got to scuttle up a tree and learn the leafy domain’s secret password. Life in the club was dictated by arbitrary but extremely important rules. The rules of the club were often documented and may or may not have involved spending a night alone in a haunted house.

The media is buzzing with reports revealed through some undisclosed sources that Capt. Holly Graf has been removed by the Navy’s authorities from the position of the Commander of a US guided-missile cruiser. The reason for her removal is reported to be her unacceptable behaviour with her subordinate staff that is around four hundred. The inquiry proceedings continued for almost two years period. The inquiry committee found her guilty and she had been demoted from the august position in January this year. Consequently she had been waiting for her new posting.Capt. Holly Graf was holding a very revered position in the US Navy and she was the first woman who was posted the commander of a US guided-missile cruiser. In this way, she was the pioneer in this field. Holly Graf joined the US Navy after successfully completing her graduation from the Academy of the Navy in 1985. Since then, she had been holding different posts and performed her duties extraordinarily.

For some it may prove heart-breaking to see their childhood and teen idols putting on a bit of weight, or maybe going thin on the top and all those little signs that time invariably imprints on us. But if you can make peace with that ‘inevitable’, you are in for a curious reunion.
So today the renzedevous is with the family of “Eight Is Enough” and appearing on the show will be the seven of the most popular stars – Dick Van Patten, Laurie Walters, Connie Needham, Grant Goodeye, Dianne Kay, Willie Aames, and Betty Buckley- from the show that ran on ABC from 1977 to 1981.The TV series was a comedy-drama series (or, if you will, dramedy) which chronicled the daily chores in the household of Tom Bradford and his eight children- David, Mary, Joanie, Susan, Nancy, Elizabeth, Tommy, and Nicholas. It was one of the first one-hour long shows to use laugh tracks.