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Here's something to distract you - 7 Outrageous Commercial Fails!
I been reading about these people posting cutesy cat and drugged up kids videos on You Tube and making a fortune and it makes me sick. Sick with jealousy! So here you go, I'm posting a cat video. A new all-time low.
This rescue kitty was 7 weeks old and discovered up in a tree so my friend Misty called the fire department and they actually came out. Well, they brought the ladder but they told Misty she had to climb it herself. Not sure if that's an insurance thing or the fact that Misty is very attractive and they just wanted to watch her climb the ladder.
Anyway, she took him to the vet and the brought him to my place and basically told me I had to take him. I'm glad she did because he's becoming a very good cat but boy was he wild, still is somewhat. Here the rescue kitty tries to navigate this standing lamp I have and chase his tail at the same time. Awwwwwwwww!
Cher's making news with her bold comments about Chaz, Sonny, and Sarah Palin in a new Vanity Fair interview - Cher always was outspoken after breaking with Sonny but she doesn't do that many interviews. Doesn't have to!
Apparently Gary Morton, Lucille Ball's second husband, remarried and has passed away. His widow is putting up his stuff for auction, including items accumulated during Morton's long marriage to Lucy. Ms. Ball's kids are not amused, they want some of the items back, mostly just letters and awards their mother won. They're ready to sue to stop the auction. It's messy.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 1:49pm
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THIS AND THAT
Oh by gosh by golly, over at dtvusaforum.com I have a rundown of the pre-1965 Christmas specials currently available on DVD. From A Visit From Santa to Amos 'n' Andy to Andy Williams - you might be surprised at how few of the classic variety specials we enjoyed as kids are existent. I mentioned earlier the new, first ever collection of Bing Crosby holiday specials that arrives on DVD on Monday, that's one I'd like to see.
There's a new episode up of the cool web series The Hive.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 1:00pm
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GOOD, BAD & THE UGLY
Someone's posted two-part Batman episodes as original broadcast from 1966, sans commercials. This one is with guest villain The Riddler (Frank Gorshin's third turn on Batman). The first two episodes are on You Tube asa well. Still no word on when the Batman TV series might be on DVD.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 10:05am
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DARIN BROOKS
The other day I talked with Darin Brooks who stars as Alex Moran on Blue Mountain State. If you haven't seen the Spike TV show it's a vulgar, sexy, college football comedy with more drunken depravity than you'll find anywhere on television. It's also pretty funny. Darin was also seen on Days of our Lives for four years as teen heartthrob Max Brady. I'll have the entire interview in my new regular column for dtvusaforum.com this week but I thought you Soap fans might want to hear a bit where we talked about Days of our Lives.
And here's that Emmy win Darin talked about, it's pretty funny too.
Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 11:38am
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DOING IT AGAIN?
Dallas may be returning with new episodes on TNT. The producers are trying to get Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy to reprise their roles and Keifer Sutherland may also be a regular as JR's son John Ross. Dallas is one of my guilty pleasures so I think that could be good news. The remake will focus on JR's son and Bobby and Pam's adopted son, Christopher - who, if I'm not mistaken, turned out to be JR's kid by some affair. Or something like that.
By the way, you can see what the Dallas stars look like today here. God, Victoria Principal's face is a mess and Priscilla Presley's mug is a horror show! What happened to growing old gracefully?
Speaking of unnecessary remakes, a new version of The Munsters is underway. But why? The original was / is perfect! Why not come up with a new concept, like a family of zombies - it's not that hard.
'Glee' co-creator Ryan Murphy may remake 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'. Makes sense, but again, why?
The 'Beverly Hills 90210' cast is reuniting in a TV western for the Hallmark channel.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 7:30am
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MY NAME JOSE JIMENEZ
Bill Dana's Jose Jiminez character was popular on TV in the 1960s, he even turned up in the late-1980s on The Smothers Brothers Show on CBS. Here's a Jose Jimenez cartoon from 1966 to enjoy this Saturday morning. Not terribly funny but the theatrical cartoons of the 1960s, Paramount or Warners, were generally dreary affairs. I remember being disappointed if one came on before the movies as a kid - the just couldn't compare with the Looney Tunes cartoon reruns on Saturday morning TV.
It wasn't just that the animation was threadbare - it was - but they weren't at all funny. Just noisy.
Did you know Bill Dana wrote that great episode of All in the Family when Sammy Davis, Jr. paid a visit?
Saturday, October 2, 2010 - 9:20am
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BOYS WILL BE BOYS
I spent many an hour on Sundays growing up watching the old Dead End Kids / East Side Kids / Bowery Boys movies on TV. Here's a sampling of Bowery Boys moments, these were silly little films but the cast was so darn good I couldn't get enough.
The history of the films is convoluted, with studio firings, cast changes, and the quality of the films varied wildly in quality. Apparently there was an attempt to launch a new Leo Gorcey / Hunts Hall movie in the 1960s thanks to the popularity of those TV reruns but it never got off the ground.
Despite making 41 (or more depending how you count them) film comedies over a twenty one year span, the boys, together and separate, had a checkered Hollywood career. Hall and Dell performed a nightclub act together but faded from the spotlight; the last film they did together was The Sphinx in 1970.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 11:05am
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