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Here's a list of 11Ill-Conceived TV Spinoffs That Almost Happened. Believe it or not, I was offered but turned down a non-speaking on-camera role in one of these. […]
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Turkey Trot
Longtime readers of this blog have seen me rave about the Jennie-O Turkey Pot Roast. This is something the Jennie-O company makes in two forms. One is an offering to retailers. Your local market can get these in, heat them up and then sell them in the same display case as the hot rotisserie chickens. […]
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Bruce Bartlett amplifies on why he's been calling for a rewrite of U.S. tax codes to make them fairer. That oughta be done. The problem is that every time we change the tax codes, someone — usually very rich people — have the clout to have the new codes say that their kind of income […]
My Tweets for 2012-02-21
I like Twitter. I'm thinking of insisting my friends limit everything they say to me to 140 characters. # In Michigan, Romney and Santorum are battling to see which of them will be the guy Republicans dislike less than the other one. # […]
Today's Video Link
It's been a while since I featured anything here with the great Daws Butler. He's the voice of Yogi Bear while Don Messick speaks for Mr. Ranger, Sir in this Kellogg's commercial. I would wager serious money that Yogi's mispronunciation of "crispier" as "cripsier" was a Daws adjustment to the copy. He was always finding […]
A Three Hour Tour, A Three Hour Tour…
I had a 180-minute lunch today with one of my favorite bloggers…and I hear he also sometimes writes and/or directs TV and also sportscasts baseball games. His name is Ken Levine and if you're not checking out his weblog every day, you're missing out on some of the cleverest writing on the web. The funny […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
Number one hundred and fifty-six in a series… […]
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Briefly Noted…
There's a battle going on for the control of Archie Comics. This article explains it all and even quotes me. […]
Old L.A. Restaurants: Porterhouse Bistro
The building on Wilshire that once housed Andre's of Beverly Hills got a new tenant ten or twelve years ago — a great place to eat steak called the Porterhouse Bistro. They had other tempting things on their menu besides Porterhouse Bistro and I suppose they were quite good but somehow, I never got around […]
Hollywood Labor News
As explained here, members of SAG (Screen Actors Guild) and AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) are now voting on a proposed merger of the two unions. There does not seem to be any particular opposition to the idea of merging. There is, however, a battle over the terms of this merger. The […]
Today's Video Link
Hugh Downs and Joe Garagiola host a promotional film to preview the Fall 1969 season on NBC. There were a couple of shows there I wouldn't mind seeing again…like My World and Welcome To It and Bracken's World… […]
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Kelefa Sanneh offers a generally sympathetic look at Ron Paul. I find Dr. Paul like most politicians: He pleases me, then he disappoints me. What's different about Paul is that most of them do that over months and he does it with alternating sentences. I wish interviewers would ask him harder questions and didn't just […]
me on the radio
Hey, it's Sunday — time for Week Three of my marathon appearance on Radio Rashy, the weekly podcast hosted by Paul Dini, Misty Lee and a sock monkey named Rashy. It's another hour of me telling silly anecdotes. In this installment, you get to hear about how Stan Freberg records changed my life. You get […]
The Return of Truthiness
Stephen Colbert's supposed to resume his show tomorrow and the story is that they shut down this week because his mother was ill. One interesting (to me) thing about the entertainment industry is that enterprises so often hinge on one person. I'm sure there must be other fields where this is the case to some […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
Number one hundred and fifty-five in a series… […]
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