One of my heroes was Michael Landon, he was great, and I lived in Malibu right next to where his family lived. He was great on "Bonanza" as Little Joe, and he did a lot of cool stuff, "Little House on the Prairie" was great, etc. He created and directed and produced and starred in "Highway to Heaven."
I never met Michael Landon, he died before I lived in Malibu, but I did get to eat breakfast seated right by James Garner at Paradise Cove one morning.
And I drove Dick Van Dyke to the airport when I was a limousine driver for Gemstar, we were the official limousine service for the Jay Leno Show and all of the stars used Gemstar. Gemstar also had private jets and body guards and buses and vans, etc, along with limousines.
I liked living in Malibu, and it was a life style, I was never rich when I lived in Malibu, but my house where I lived was just as nice as the home of any star and we had a view of the Pacific Ocean from our rose garden, etc. Michael Landon's family lived in our neighborhood, and a lot of rich and famous people lived there, but it was about the lifestyle and not about being rich. I did not think that I was better than anyone else, I just thought that I was lucky to get to live in Malibu, and I loved the people who I lived with, and Malibu is a great place to live.
We will see, I might move back to Malibu if I can get my movie script made or sold, and my poetry book published, and then I have a lot of other ideas for new movies and television shows, we will see what happens. It would be good to make movies and television shows right here in Anaheim, but if I cannot do that, then it would be great to move back to Malibu and to make movies and television shows with my neighbors there.
Anyhow, Michael Landon was great, and he was a good Christian. The park in Malibu across PCH from Pepperdine is named after Michael Landon.
Salute,
Tony V.