Toying With The Stars

Alison Arngrim is in town promoting her new book. You probably know her best, as I do, as Nellie Oleson from Little House on the Prairie. If you were a child of the 70s, as I was, you watched this show. The years have not dimmed my memories of the Walnut Grove gang, nor can I shake the haunting images from the fire at the blind school. In a previous interview, Alison told us that when things were getting too sweet on the show, Michael Landon (in every sense the patriarch) would darken things up to balance it all out. I am pretty sure you can’t burn a beloved character and a newborn baby alive on a kid’s show anymore but as the ludicrous saying goes: “It was a simpler time.”