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Frank Oscar Larson took some real nice photos of New York City back in the fifties. […]
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Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
Number two hundred and forty-four in a series… […]
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Busy, Busy, Busy!
Years ago, a very funny character actor named Billy DeWolfe used to go on with Johnny Carson and when Johnny asked him how he was, he'd exclaim, "Busy, busy, busy!" in a very funny way. To this day, I hear his reading of those three words in my head all the time. Anyway, I'm sorry […]
Dick Beals, R.I.P.
The legendary Dick Beals — a star of radio, cartoons and more commercials than just about anyone — has died in a Southern California nursing home at the age of 85. Dick stood 4'7" due to a glandular problem which also gave him his youthful voice. He was playing ten-year-old boys well into his seventies […]
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Rick Newman is writing a series of articles about why the two main guys running for President this year are campaigning on false premises. Here's his piece about how America's economic problems are not exactly the fault of the kind of businessman that Mitt Romney is or was, as the Obama folks are claiming. Here's […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
Number two hundred and forty-three in a series… […]
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Go See It!
12 Celebrities And Their Stunt Doubles Because People Seem To Enjoy This Sort Of Thing. […]
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Bruce Bartlett explains why Mitt Romney is sounding more and more like he wants America to think of him as the fiscal heir to Bill Clinton. […]
"Forever" Doesn't Mean Forever
I took this in a mall food court the other day. It was in front of a Wetzel's Pretzels… […]
My Tweets from Yesterday
The key on my keyboard for the third letter of the alphabet is busted. Going to be hard to finish this s*ript without that letter. 21:52:17 I gave up. I got a spare keyboard out of the closet. I was unable to write that sentence ten minutes ago. 22:33:09 […]
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Michael Kinsley visits China. […]
Today's Video Link
Here's a video of Imogene Lynn, a popular big band singer back in the days of big bands and big band singers. She's here with Ray McKinley and his Orchestra but she sang with a lot of them, most notable Artie Shaw and his band. At some point in her career Ms. Lynn stopped singing […]
Blogkeeping Note
Two readers of this site have reported a glitch where they read the posts on the first page and then when they get to the bottom and click "Older Posts," it takes them back a week. This is not a problem I can fix, especially since it doesn't happen on any of my three computers […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
Number two hundred and forty-two in a series… […]
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Hamburger Heavens
So just when my pal Ken Levine and I are making lunch plans, he starts blogging about his favorite hamburgers…and two of his favorites (Five Guys and Cassell's) turn out to be two of my favorites. Matter of fact, I agree with all his evaluations except… What he says about the Apple Pan in L.A. […]