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Let's look at some celebrities and how they handle adversity. Like for instance, sweet, gentle humanitarian Richard Simmons speaks from the heart and spreads the love on the set of some TV show.
While we're on the subject of Richard Simmons here's an appearance he did on The Late Show with David Letterman. There's no profanity in this clip but I have no doubt the curse words flew backstage after what happened during Richard's product demonstration.
My all time favorite has Casey Kasem losing it in the studio while recording his American Top 40. "Somebody use his f*cking brain!"
This has to be one of my all-time favorite bloopers, from a Concentration type show in England called Catchphrases.
Friday, September 17, 2010 - 11:40am
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The Patty Duke Show: Season Three
One of the shows I remember only dimly growing up was The Patty Duke Show. I loved the concept no matter how far fetched it was - that two teen cousins raised half a world away from each other could be identical twins with wildly different characteristics.
Reruns in the 1980s on Nick at Nite made the program hot all over again with a new generation of kids and now the DVD releases come to capitalize on that Baby Boomer / Gen X crossover (we have so much in common as far as TV shows go - we all grew up on the Beaver, the Bradys, and Donna Reed).
It's clear the producers wanted to tweak the format for this third and last season to make the show more rock & roll oriented, with a hip, swinging version of the uber-famous theme song. So naturally they start the season with that old chestnut of a storyline where a huge star, for whatever random reason, ends up staying at a fan's house. In this case it's Frankie Avalon at Patty's front door and everyone goes ga ga over the pop star who's just so darned nice and down to earth.
As opposed to dizzy Patty - she has a major hangup about guys, she practically goes catatonic when she meets a cute fellow while cousin Cathy seems intent on going around town with a stick up her ass. You got the feeling that by the third year the writers were tired of the identical cousins hook of the show and had no idea what to do with Cathy anymore.
This is a classic 1960's family sitcom, enjoyable especially if you fondly remember the show from your youth. Wholesome entertainment, like Ozzie & Harriet, not hilariously funny but it was what it was. Also included is the dreadful TV movie reunion of 1999 which is notable only because the entire cast returns for an utterly pointless script that casts Patty back to high school as a drama teacher.
Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 9:00am
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WATCHING TELEVISION IN THE PAST
In this You Tube video a fellow has restored a 1957 television set, the first with a "practical" remote control, using technology that was still the standard in the 1980s. This video lets you watch a bit from The Honeymooners on that gorgeous 1957 set. Wish I had one, I wonder how many of these 1950's TV sets are still in use?
Speaking of Gleason, here's "The Great One" in an interview for 60 Minutes in 1984.
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 11:11am
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