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"Boom-Boom BOOMTOWN!"

I'm not sure if that makes any sense to anyone who grew up outside of New England, but it's the battle cry of many an adult who was a kid between 1956 and 1976. It's from Boomtown, the classic kids show hosted by Rex Trailer on WBZ-TV. Brings back a lot of memories of sitting in my pajamas on Saturday and Sunday mornings, eating breakfast, watching the show. Kids went crazy on that show. I'm talking TRL crazy. I don't really remember Pablo, but I do remember Sgt. Billy.

Trailer is alive and still going strong! He's 78 and appears in parades and at special events, teaches at Emerson College, and has a video production company and television training center. He's currently on a "Rex Trailer 50th Anniversary Tour," and there was a film about him and his show released last year.

He has a web site, where you can not only buy a DVD for the show but also music, postcards, and posters of the reunion tour.

The policeman from the popular 70s/80s disco group The Village People was arrested on Sunday for drug possession and giving false ID to...a policeman! Victor Willis will return to court on April 10.

My favorite part of this story: "The officer did not immediately recognize Willis..." Um, why would he? Why would anybody? He's not that famous. The only way you might recognize him is if he was wearing the cop uniform, and even then he'd have to be dancing.

Another odd part of this story: he was actually arrested last year but vanished before sentencing. Authorities had actually been looking for Willis for months. Hopefully he'll show up this time.

Garet "I've only been singing in front of my turkey" Johnson did not make the Top 24 on American Idol. But that hasn't stopped anyone from getting famous off the competition, has it? Despite living in a town of four people and only having turkeys to hear him sing, Garet does have internet access and therefore, he has a webpage. There's not much to it yet, except the promise that "this is only the beginning", and a lot of spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors.

He was a really sweet and cute cowboy but I think he needs to take the judges' advice and get some singing lessons. He's young enough to spend a year improving and then return next year. Which is better, Garet? Fifteen minutes of fame or an entire season on American Idol? Even your turkey could figure that one out.