Sunday, November 16, 2003

Hawaii Five-O Question

A friend has a question and it's beyond my expertise to answer. We're trying to identify an episode of Hawaii Five-O and all he remembers about it is that it involves a serial killer murdering women all over The Island. There's no explanation as to how he gains entrance to their homes and no seeming connection between his victims until McGarrett (or someone) figures out that all but one had their cars washed at a certain car wash. The killer worked there, picked his targets and secretly duplicated their house keys while their autos (with the keys in them) were going through the car wash.

The reason my friend needs to know about this episode is boring and would be of no interest to anyone. But he needs to, and we're hoping someone reading this is enough of a Five-O buff to tell us which one it was.

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This is a Test...

I'm experimenting with font sizes to see what will be most readable on this weblog. If you can read this page okay, do nothing. If you find this difficult to read, please drop me a note and tell me what's wrong with it. Thanks.

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Say the Secret Word...

We call your attention to a new 3-DVD set of episodes of You Bet Your Life starring Groucho Marx that is now available. If you need a reminder of how funny this show was, go to this page of the website for the company bringing them out and click on the video preview links at the bottom of the page. They have a few choice moments from one show, plus the original opening which you may not have ever seen. Most of you who remember the show at all probably remember the opening put on them when a block of episodes were placed into syndication. The 18 programs on this set are not from that block. They're episodes that haven't been available since their original airings, and they've been mastered from quality prints and augmented with loads of special features, including racy outtakes. Sounds like a must-have for us Marx mavens. I'll give you a full report once I get my copy but if you don't want to wait for that, here's a link to order yours today. And tell 'em Groucho sent you.

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Recommended Reading

Frank Rich offers an interesting view on the controversial Reagans mini-series, especially as compared to the upcoming HBO mini-series based on Tony Kushner's Angels in America. [New York Times registration required.]

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