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01-25-2012, 06:08 PM
Earlier today, according to this (http://online.worldmag.com/2012/01/25/kirk-camerons-monumental-task/), Kirk Cameron announced that his upcoming documentary, Monumental, will be released in limited theaters March 30.
In early 2010, just after his 40th birthday, Kirk began a 2-year project uncovering American history from a Christian prospective, traveling to such national treasure as Washington, D.C. for the project.
The history of Kirk Cameron, as Ive stated before MANY times (to ridiculation, which as I stated in an earlier post, I am TIRED of), is quite interesting, according to his E! True Hollywood Story episode.
The year is 1968. Richard Milhous Nixon, aged 55, is elected U.S. President; the Vietnam War is in FULL effect; and a 24-year-old middle-school teacher named Rob Cameron met and fell in love with a 17-year-old high-school senior named Barbara Bausmith. Before the year ended, Rob and Barbara discovered they were expecting their first baby, but rather than have the baby born out-of-wedlock, Rob and Barbara married on June 22, 1969.
3 1/2 months later, their 1st baby, Kirk, was born on October 12, 1969.
By 1974, Rob and Barbara were expecting again; this time, a baby girl, Candace, was born on April 6, 1975.
The family of 4 settled in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, where in 1979, at the request of Barbaras friend/Cameron family neighbor Fran Rich (whose 10-year-old boy, Adam, was a regular on TVs Eight is Enough) began taking 9-year-old Kirk and 4-year-old Candace out to auditions; Kirk made his acting debut in a Count Chocula commercial, while Candace made her debut (per her IMDB entry) in a Mutual of Omaha commercial (NEVER broadcast).
By 1982, 12-year-old Kirk & 7-year-old Candace had graduated from commercials to bit parts on network TV, with Kirk appearing on Lou Grant & Candace appearing on St. Elsewhere.
That same year, according to a People Magazine article published in December 1986, Kirk earned irreversible partial facial damage caused by a skiing accident.
In 1983, 13-year-old Kirk earned his 1st regular series role on a short-lived drama called Two Marriages.
In September 1984, just shy of turning 15, Kirk auditioned for the part of the eldest teen son on a sitcom pilot called Growing Pains, which debuted in September 1985.
Though ratings for the show were VERY low at first, by September 1986, after show creator Neal Marlens quit & was replaced by the trio of Dan Guntzelman, Steve Marshall & Mike Sullivan was show-runner, 16-year-old Kirk Cameron became a bona-fide teen heartthrob, earning $10,000 a week, as well as 10,000 fan letters EVERY week from girls his age (per his 2008 memoir Still Growing).
However, according to Still Growing, that wasnt enough to prevent Kirk from going through real-life Growing Pains after he & Candace were informed that their parents were getting divorced after 17 years of marriage.
Simultaneously, per Still Growing, a college-aged gay guy began having the hots for Kirk and Stalking him & his family, even going as far as showing up on the Growing Pains set & having his colleague Jeremy Miller take a picture of him that he would eventually pass off as a network publicity photo.
Eventually, per Still Growing, the gay guy used Kirks likeness to rape a young boy at gunpoint, and once the local police got wind of it and began investigating, Kirk & his mom, Barbara, were informed of the situation, and Alan Thicke eventually hired Gavin de Becker, who, according to Kirk, was expected by Kirk to look like Claw on Inspector Gadget but in actuality was a physically short guy (like Kirk Cameron, who, according to Still Growing, is 5 feet 7 inches) who could pass off as an accountant, but was an expert on Stalking & the type of cases to look for in potential Stalkers.
On a fateful evening, per Still Growing, Kirk agreed to invite the guy to the Growing Pains set, with VERY few people outside his family knowing that the regular Security set guards would be replaced by undercover cops, including one, as Kirk humorously noted, passing himself off as a janitor; the gay guy was arrested on the spot & headed off to jail as an attempted pedophile.
In the Summer of 1987, after Season 2 of Growing Pains wrapped, 17-year-old Kirk Cameron was cast opposite British actor Dudley Moore in Like Father, Like Son, a movie released that October, days before Kirk turned 18, as a huge Box Office success (no doubt due to Kirks teen idoldom).
That same year, 12-year-old Candace made a sitcom pilot called Full House.
During a break from filming Like Father, Like Son, per Still Growing, Kirk was invited by his then-girlfriend, aspiring actress Leanna Creel (born on August 27, 1970), to attend the local Church where her dad served as pastor.
Not long afterwards, by his own admission, Kirk sat in a parked car in Van Nuys, California, and asked himself, pertaining to his parents divorce, If theres a God, I NEED to know, and became a follower of Jesus Christ.
Kirks newfound Christianity didnt sit well with Growing Pains writers, per Still Growing, as Kirk discovered the hard way after trying to compromise a sequence Kirk found offensive about his character dreaming of seeing his mother Naked, and as a result, conflict often ensued from then on.
In 1988, just after his 17-year-old character Mike Seaver graduated from Thomas E. Dewey High School in Long Island, New York, 18-year-old Kirk Cameron graduated in real life from Chatsworth High School in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, ratings for Full House were low at first until the infant Olsen Twins won over critics and viewers alike at the start of Season 2.
In 1989, just shy of turning 20, Kirk met and fell in love with 25-year-old aspiring actress/model Nancy Mueller (born on December 4, 1963), when Nancy was cast as Kate MacDonald, a potential love interest of Mike Seaver.
That role, within 6 months, transferred to real life for Kirk, whose parents reconciled and eventually remarried soon after his Christian conversion.
In April 1991, just after Growing Pains wrapped Season 6 of production, 21-year-old Kirk called the President of the network, stating his employers were Pornographers (sadly, in Steve Marshalls case, correct, as Marshall pled guilty in 2010 to posession of child porn, earning a 7-year prison sentence).
3 1/2 months later, on July 20, 1991, 21-year-old Kirk Cameron & 27-year-old Nancy Mueller were married in Nancys hometown of Buffalo, New York in a private ceremony with only immediate family in attendance.
New writers & directors were hired for Season 7 of Growing Pains; soon afterwards, despite being #27 out of 102 prime-time network shows that season, the network pulled the plug on Growing Pains.
In 1993, 18-year-old Candace graduated from Chatsworth High School and soon began dating in real life (per http://www.tv.com/people/dustin-diamond/trivia/) Dustin Screech Diamond before leaving Screech to marry retired pro hockey player Val Bure (born June 13, 1974 in Moscow, Russia) after a year-long courtship on June 22, 1996--a full year after Full House was canceled due to being too pricey to produce.
In 1996, Kirk & Nancy became 1st-time parents to a son they adopted named Jack; they would adopt 3 other children in the next 4 years until Kirk & Nancy discovered they were expecting their 1st biological child, a girl they would eventually name Olivia Rose, born in 2001 (a 2nd biological child, James Thomas, was born on April 13, 2003).
In August 1998, 23-year-old Candace & 24-year-old Val became 1st-time parents when their now teen daughter, Natasha, was born (they also have 2 boys--Lev, born in the year 2000, who, per Candaces 2011 memoir Reshaping It All, was born with a rare medical condition causing him to be totally deaf in his right ear; and Maks, who turned 10 on January 21).
At around the same time, according to her memoir Reshaping It All, Candace began a battle with Bulimia, an eating disorder in which the person eats but digests their food (as in Candaces case) with Laxatives, though sometimes the person with Bulimia throws up the food instead of digesting.
In the year 2000, 30-year-old Kirk Cameron officially retired from acting and began a new career--as an evangelical preacher--which he still does.
In early 2002, months after 9/11, Kirk teamed up with author/minister Ray Comfort to combine their ministries, christening it Living Waters.
In 2009, after nearly 15 years away from series TV, 34-year-old Candace returned to TV via ABC Familys hit series Make It or Break It, scheduled to begin Season 3 in March 2012.
Today, Kirk & Nancy reside with their 6 children in Agoura Hills, California, while Val & Candace reside with their 3 children in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
In early 2010, just after his 40th birthday, Kirk began a 2-year project uncovering American history from a Christian prospective, traveling to such national treasure as Washington, D.C. for the project.
The history of Kirk Cameron, as Ive stated before MANY times (to ridiculation, which as I stated in an earlier post, I am TIRED of), is quite interesting, according to his E! True Hollywood Story episode.
The year is 1968. Richard Milhous Nixon, aged 55, is elected U.S. President; the Vietnam War is in FULL effect; and a 24-year-old middle-school teacher named Rob Cameron met and fell in love with a 17-year-old high-school senior named Barbara Bausmith. Before the year ended, Rob and Barbara discovered they were expecting their first baby, but rather than have the baby born out-of-wedlock, Rob and Barbara married on June 22, 1969.
3 1/2 months later, their 1st baby, Kirk, was born on October 12, 1969.
By 1974, Rob and Barbara were expecting again; this time, a baby girl, Candace, was born on April 6, 1975.
The family of 4 settled in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, where in 1979, at the request of Barbaras friend/Cameron family neighbor Fran Rich (whose 10-year-old boy, Adam, was a regular on TVs Eight is Enough) began taking 9-year-old Kirk and 4-year-old Candace out to auditions; Kirk made his acting debut in a Count Chocula commercial, while Candace made her debut (per her IMDB entry) in a Mutual of Omaha commercial (NEVER broadcast).
By 1982, 12-year-old Kirk & 7-year-old Candace had graduated from commercials to bit parts on network TV, with Kirk appearing on Lou Grant & Candace appearing on St. Elsewhere.
That same year, according to a People Magazine article published in December 1986, Kirk earned irreversible partial facial damage caused by a skiing accident.
In 1983, 13-year-old Kirk earned his 1st regular series role on a short-lived drama called Two Marriages.
In September 1984, just shy of turning 15, Kirk auditioned for the part of the eldest teen son on a sitcom pilot called Growing Pains, which debuted in September 1985.
Though ratings for the show were VERY low at first, by September 1986, after show creator Neal Marlens quit & was replaced by the trio of Dan Guntzelman, Steve Marshall & Mike Sullivan was show-runner, 16-year-old Kirk Cameron became a bona-fide teen heartthrob, earning $10,000 a week, as well as 10,000 fan letters EVERY week from girls his age (per his 2008 memoir Still Growing).
However, according to Still Growing, that wasnt enough to prevent Kirk from going through real-life Growing Pains after he & Candace were informed that their parents were getting divorced after 17 years of marriage.
Simultaneously, per Still Growing, a college-aged gay guy began having the hots for Kirk and Stalking him & his family, even going as far as showing up on the Growing Pains set & having his colleague Jeremy Miller take a picture of him that he would eventually pass off as a network publicity photo.
Eventually, per Still Growing, the gay guy used Kirks likeness to rape a young boy at gunpoint, and once the local police got wind of it and began investigating, Kirk & his mom, Barbara, were informed of the situation, and Alan Thicke eventually hired Gavin de Becker, who, according to Kirk, was expected by Kirk to look like Claw on Inspector Gadget but in actuality was a physically short guy (like Kirk Cameron, who, according to Still Growing, is 5 feet 7 inches) who could pass off as an accountant, but was an expert on Stalking & the type of cases to look for in potential Stalkers.
On a fateful evening, per Still Growing, Kirk agreed to invite the guy to the Growing Pains set, with VERY few people outside his family knowing that the regular Security set guards would be replaced by undercover cops, including one, as Kirk humorously noted, passing himself off as a janitor; the gay guy was arrested on the spot & headed off to jail as an attempted pedophile.
In the Summer of 1987, after Season 2 of Growing Pains wrapped, 17-year-old Kirk Cameron was cast opposite British actor Dudley Moore in Like Father, Like Son, a movie released that October, days before Kirk turned 18, as a huge Box Office success (no doubt due to Kirks teen idoldom).
That same year, 12-year-old Candace made a sitcom pilot called Full House.
During a break from filming Like Father, Like Son, per Still Growing, Kirk was invited by his then-girlfriend, aspiring actress Leanna Creel (born on August 27, 1970), to attend the local Church where her dad served as pastor.
Not long afterwards, by his own admission, Kirk sat in a parked car in Van Nuys, California, and asked himself, pertaining to his parents divorce, If theres a God, I NEED to know, and became a follower of Jesus Christ.
Kirks newfound Christianity didnt sit well with Growing Pains writers, per Still Growing, as Kirk discovered the hard way after trying to compromise a sequence Kirk found offensive about his character dreaming of seeing his mother Naked, and as a result, conflict often ensued from then on.
In 1988, just after his 17-year-old character Mike Seaver graduated from Thomas E. Dewey High School in Long Island, New York, 18-year-old Kirk Cameron graduated in real life from Chatsworth High School in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, ratings for Full House were low at first until the infant Olsen Twins won over critics and viewers alike at the start of Season 2.
In 1989, just shy of turning 20, Kirk met and fell in love with 25-year-old aspiring actress/model Nancy Mueller (born on December 4, 1963), when Nancy was cast as Kate MacDonald, a potential love interest of Mike Seaver.
That role, within 6 months, transferred to real life for Kirk, whose parents reconciled and eventually remarried soon after his Christian conversion.
In April 1991, just after Growing Pains wrapped Season 6 of production, 21-year-old Kirk called the President of the network, stating his employers were Pornographers (sadly, in Steve Marshalls case, correct, as Marshall pled guilty in 2010 to posession of child porn, earning a 7-year prison sentence).
3 1/2 months later, on July 20, 1991, 21-year-old Kirk Cameron & 27-year-old Nancy Mueller were married in Nancys hometown of Buffalo, New York in a private ceremony with only immediate family in attendance.
New writers & directors were hired for Season 7 of Growing Pains; soon afterwards, despite being #27 out of 102 prime-time network shows that season, the network pulled the plug on Growing Pains.
In 1993, 18-year-old Candace graduated from Chatsworth High School and soon began dating in real life (per http://www.tv.com/people/dustin-diamond/trivia/) Dustin Screech Diamond before leaving Screech to marry retired pro hockey player Val Bure (born June 13, 1974 in Moscow, Russia) after a year-long courtship on June 22, 1996--a full year after Full House was canceled due to being too pricey to produce.
In 1996, Kirk & Nancy became 1st-time parents to a son they adopted named Jack; they would adopt 3 other children in the next 4 years until Kirk & Nancy discovered they were expecting their 1st biological child, a girl they would eventually name Olivia Rose, born in 2001 (a 2nd biological child, James Thomas, was born on April 13, 2003).
In August 1998, 23-year-old Candace & 24-year-old Val became 1st-time parents when their now teen daughter, Natasha, was born (they also have 2 boys--Lev, born in the year 2000, who, per Candaces 2011 memoir Reshaping It All, was born with a rare medical condition causing him to be totally deaf in his right ear; and Maks, who turned 10 on January 21).
At around the same time, according to her memoir Reshaping It All, Candace began a battle with Bulimia, an eating disorder in which the person eats but digests their food (as in Candaces case) with Laxatives, though sometimes the person with Bulimia throws up the food instead of digesting.
In the year 2000, 30-year-old Kirk Cameron officially retired from acting and began a new career--as an evangelical preacher--which he still does.
In early 2002, months after 9/11, Kirk teamed up with author/minister Ray Comfort to combine their ministries, christening it Living Waters.
In 2009, after nearly 15 years away from series TV, 34-year-old Candace returned to TV via ABC Familys hit series Make It or Break It, scheduled to begin Season 3 in March 2012.
Today, Kirk & Nancy reside with their 6 children in Agoura Hills, California, while Val & Candace reside with their 3 children in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.