From The Vault: My Brushes with Royalty -The Kenner Star May,2011

    The last time I was in Westminster Abbey was in the early 1980's. My most memorable moment came, actually, as I was leaving the building.  As I stepped out into the noon-day sun, along with the other mad dogs and Englishmen,  I heard a loud voice above the din of the taxis and double decker buses: “Hey, Ed Clancy. How ya doin’?”

From the Vault: MY Brush with Royalty - The Kenner Star 1997

    The death of Princess Diana has spawned a sea of ink and a mountain of print, and so I guess it’s my obligation, as a “journalist,” to add to the volumes that have already been written about “the people’s princess.”  I realize that by the time you get to see this you may have had your fill of “Candle in the Wind.” 

From the Vault: Jesse Jackson, Pete Fountain and My Mother - Kenner Star 2005

    I know you just can’t wait to get to the part in this column that explains the connection between two national celebrities and my mother, so here we go.
    Years ago my mother, Lucille, was in town and we lunched at atrium of the Hyatt Regency. Somehow the conversation got around to my mother “seeing things.” 
    “You know, Eddie,” (she always called me “Eddie,” and there wasn’t a thing I could do about it), “sometimes I think I’m seeing something when I know I can’t be.” I didn’t know what to make of that comment, but I did know that my mother’s concentration was not the best.
    “Whatever do you mean, mother?” I asked.
    “Well, I think I see somebody who couldn’t possibly be here.”
    “Who is that, mom?”
    “Jesse Jackson.”

From The Vault: I Knew Deep Throat - The Kenner Star 2005

    The revelation that a guy named Mark Felt was the mysterious Deep Throat of the Watergate scandal was not as big a deal to me as it might have been to a lot of other people. Over the years I, frankly, have had very little interest in who he was because I had already met Deep Throat. No, not Mark Felt. I met the real Deep Throat: Hal Holbrook.

From The Vault : Judy Judy Judy - The Kenner Star 1999

    From 1999 I present a piece I did on the lady known in the gay community as "Miss Judy Garland."  The main reason I am presenting this particular column at this particular time is that I have recently discovered the original interview, which was done on an ancient Uhrer reel to reel tape recorder in 1967 and I hope to soon transfer it to digital format which you can access here.

                                  Judy Judy Judy

 

From The Vault: The Caliph of Clink - Kenner Star 1996

    I was really anticipating a great afternoon of baseball in front of the tube.  LSU was playing Miami in the College World Series in Omaha.  Actually I have not followed professional  baseball all that much since I was a kid in the 50s and 60s, and college baseball got, basically, none of my attention at all.
    As the first few innings went along, I was only mildly involved, and was actually nodding off as I lay on my beanbag in the den. Then it happened. 

From The Vault :Traveling With Father Clancy - Kenner Star 1998

    As a good Catholic boy, I am aware that many mothers of same, at one time or another, think about their sons becoming priests.  Frankly, my mother never mentioned the subject to me, but I have always wondered what she would have thought about one episode of my life that gave me a chance to see things from the other side of the collar.