Biography

Brad Lachman is known for Solid Gold (1980), Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1999) and The World's Funniest! (1997).

Very well groomed

Considered a career as a professional drummer or basketball player before parking cars at Universal City and stumbling into "show-biz".

Played tight-end for the Triple A's, an undefeated and unknown youth football team which existed in the late 1950s and claims to have never dropped a pass through-out his career.

Once challenged pro wrestler Freddie Blassie to a fight (over the phone). Blassie accepted and may have actually showed up at the appointed time and place. Lachman was upset over Blassie's use of a well-known Lachmanism: Don't point unless you're picking out French pastry.

As a high school basketball player, his idol was Elgin Baylor, whose hang time Lachman tried to imitate by inventing the "hoota" shot. While un-spectacular in practices, it was never tried in an actual game.

(on Andy Gibb, who hosted Lachman's TV series Solid Gold (1980)...until Gibb was dismissed for skipping several tapings) Andy was a very charming, very vulnerable, and very charismatic performer who clearly meant well. He wasn't being difficult; he was experiencing deep-rooted problems and couldn't deal. Andy wanted *everyone* to love him. He had so much going on for him, and he just couldn't take it all in.