I’m disappointed more people didn’t play, but that’s the way it goes. Maybe the news has been so unremittingly bad that frivolity seemed out of step. Here are the answers: 1. J Pierpont Finch: Leading man, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” played first on stage and screen by Robert Morse 2. Roger …
I need to take a break from the malfeasance the Trump Administration is perpetrating daily, so let’s have a quiz! I’m going to name 10 movie or TV characters (all men this time; I’m going to make one of these for women too). You tell me who played the character and in what movie or …
Given the furor and the cancellation of Roseanne Barr’s current TV show as a result of her stupid, intemperate and racist tweet, it’s no surprise that even reruns of her first show (the one that was on from 1988 to 1997) have been canceled. I don’t know whether she has any sense of guilt or …
I don’t watch the show, but there was a big foofaraw this past summer when two of the show’s four main characters, Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park, both quit after a salary dispute. They each wanted to be paid what Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan were paid, and CBS’s final offer to Kim and …
At least, back to The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Season Two, when Mason Williams debuted “Classical Gas” on the show. Here’s Williams explaining how he wrote the song. Here it is as it was recorded for Williams’ album “The Mason Williams Phonograph Record”. Backing him up: Larry Knechtel and Jim Gordon of The Wrecking Crew, …
Odd memory snuck up on me this evening; Mom, Dad and I were in a car driving at night and I was anxious that we get home soon. Why? Because I was afraid I’d miss that night’s episode of Huckleberry Hound. There was snow on the side of the road in this memory, which means …
Nothing against Fallon, but I miss the Johnny Carson version of the Tonight Show. I have a memory of watching it on a portable black-and-white television set while in high school. My mother claims that never happened, but how would she know? She was in bed at the time.
It’s been nearly six years since the finale of that show aired and I’m still annoyed at the way it ended up its six-year run. White lights, church, bah. Somebody put together an excellent video tribute, though.
I have been whining and complaining about CBS and its miserable broadcast of the Boston Pops annual 4th of July show from the Esplanade in Boston for about ten years now. It looks like the Pops and CBS separated after the 2013 Fireworks Spectacular, as unless you lived in Boston the only way to see …
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I now have the entire Archer’s Beach trilogy by Sharon Lee. I also have Andy Weir’s The Martian. Also Keith Laumer’s A Plague of Demons & Other Stories. Weir’s book was self-published in 2011 and purchased by Crown Publishing in 2014. It’s gotten very good reviews. Laumer was an interesting character. An ex-Air Force officer, …