Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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Richard Chamberlain, the heartthrob from "Dr Kildare" and the miniseries "The Thornbirds," who finally came out as gay about five years ago, now stars in "The Heiress" at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Chamberlain plays Dr. Sloper, played by Ralph Richardson in the 1949 film, and for the performance grew a large set of sideburns which, he's surprised to hear, makes him hip with the kids. "Cool," he says.
In our interview, he wouldn't talk much about Sloper, preferring to let audiences come to it fresh, but he did say he was nervous when on the first night the audience laughed at everything -- sad scenes, funny scenes. "And I don't I don't know who they were, or why, but it really worried me because I thought, 'Oh, my God, what are we doing wrong?' and I couldn't figure it out." The subsequent audiences didn't react that way, he says.
"The Heiress" runs through May 20 at the Pasadena Playhouse.