This week’s celebrity involves an internet group I joined back in May 2006 while serching for a theme song from the program. The first season of the series ‘Simon and Simon’ was playing on the ‘Sleuth’ cable television station. I knew the standard theme for the series but not the first season’s. Finding this ‘Yahoo’ group I noticed they had a caption contest, which is something I had been looking for as a casually challenging game. So I joined and started getting a lot more practice writing captions. Along the way it was asked, noticing my being a caricaturist, why I hadn’t drawn the Simon brothers (Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney). So I added their names to the current celebrity cup six months ago. The first came up last week and here is the drawing.

I’m not real nuts about the final result. I really struggle with the so-called “beautiful people”. He must be one of them. Simple features arranged in an almost non-defined way. My struggle is not to overly define them. Which I did here. However, I was running out of time, so I wrapped this as it is.

Florida connections: I’ve since learned that the Simon & Simon series was originally to be based in Florida somewhere between Florida City and Key Largo. The original pilot was partially shot in and around Everglades City. While we were doing other research down there, I found a few of the locations. Apparently cost relocated the series to San Diego. Watching the first season, the storylines seemed to be retooled from Florida to fit in California.

Also, Gerald McRaney is now married to Orlando native Delta Burke.

Next week: Back to the humor cup and, finally, one of my very favorites, Groucho Marx.