David Soul films Hemingway’s car restoration in Cuba

I returned last night from Havana and a week filming with acting-singing legend David Soul (most famously Hutch from the 1970s cult TV show Starsky & Hutch) What a fabulous experience as we followed the trail of Ernest Hemingway’s long-lost 1955 Chrysler New Yorker convertible, the “discovery” of which I reported in my May 6, 2011, blog post: “Hemingway’s Chrysler to be Restored […]
Starsky, Papa, and Hutch

David Soul has had success as pop singer and stage actor. But it’s as police detective Kenneth Hutchinson in the cheesy 1970s television drama Starsky and Hutch that he will forever be best known Cheesy 1970s television? OK, redundant. Yet even for that era, Starsky and Hutch was especially ripe fromage. Each episode, Hutch and […]
David Soul—My Family Values

I was born in 1943 and my first memories are from around 1949, when my dad accepted a position in Berlin as religious affairs adviser for the U.S. high commission. It was well before the wall and the aftermath of the second world war was still very much in evidence. Our house was the only standing […]