Lamparski (L) and his worst subject, Richard Cromwell (Images via head shot & Paramount) In 2012, I published a long interview with Richard Lamparski, the writer and interviewer who I would argue all but invented the nostalgia industry with his wildly successful Whatever Became Of ... ?
book series. If you missed it, I'm publishing it at Gr8erDays HERE. I'm proud of it, and he should be proud of the historically important work he did.
I'm not sure he thinks of it that way. I don't believe all his files and autographs and correspondence, for example, were squirreled away and will wind up in one, safe place, like a museum.