Tomorrow night, TCM is showing Life is Beautiful at — on my streaming service — 7 PM. This is the 1997 movie starring and co-written by Robert Begnini, who plays a Jewish-Italian bookshop owner trying to keep his son out of a Nazi concentration camp. It won a surprising number of Academy Awards including one […]
It's Randy Rainbow. Oh yes, it's Randy Rainbow. Definitely Randy Rainbow… […]
A new week…a new Randy Rainbow video…Mark busy on a script. But we'll be starting our annual countdown of great Christmas videos later today. Stay tuned… […]
Here's another one that fits into the "novelty" category. "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" was recorded in 1966 by Jerry Samuels, a man of many occupations including songwriter. At the time, he was working as a recording engineer so he had access to all the studio equipment he needed to make this strange […]
This feels like a good day to try to finish some things. Don't expect a lot of content here today. […]
Just to show you that not everything Dick Van Dyke ever did was wonderful, let's flash back to October of 1958. Thanks to "Orange Apple" for sending me this link but I wish you folks would all sign real names… […]
There used to be this organization called the Friars Club which was basically a social club for comedians. There was a branch in New York and one in Los Angeles and while they put on shows (usually for good causes) in each, their main function was to be a place where members could hang out, […]
I haven't seen the movie Wicked yet. I'm still largely confined to my home and even if they send me a link to watch it online (so I might vote for it to receive some award), this feels like a film that oughta be seen in a big screen with a big audience in a […]
Donald Trump has announced he wants to end Daylight Saving Time. That's not a bad idea. I'll set my clocks back to half-past the Obama administration. […]
In 1976, Dick Van Dyke had a weekly variety show on NBC that not nearly enough people watched. It went on the air on September 20 and the last of its eleven episodes aired on December 30. I wrote about it in this post earlier this year but I'll save you the trouble of clicking […]
Thanks to all the folks who wrote but I've decided to just forget about watching David Letterman on the Samsung TV Plus channel. I am less enthused than I was before I learned that they're running selected excerpts, not whole shows. There are oodles of old Letterman clips on YouTube that I haven't gotten around […]
I do not want to suggest even in the slightest way that it was a good thing that someone — presumably, the guy they've arrested and have a ton of evidence against including some near-confessions — gunned down that health care CEO. Awful, wrong, illegal, prosecute him to the max. But I do think it's […]
Here's a bunch of people at a small dinner gathering to celebrate Rose Marie's ninety-somethingth birthday back in 2013. The lady at the lower left is Arlene Silver, otherwise known as Mrs. Dick Van Dyke. The gent next to her is Mr. Dick Van Dyke. The lady next to him is Rose Marie. The two […]
I had a few "golden oldies" on my 1972 mixtape and a few novelty songs. This entry qualifies in both categories. In 1962, the Los Angeles Dodgers — who had not been in Los Angeles for long — had a rousing, grudge-filled battle for the pennant with the San Francisco Giants. It aroused a lot […]
So not only do I not understand how to watch the new David Letterman channel on Samsung TV, this interview shows that David doesn't understand it either. But it's about other things too and I found a lot of it interesting… […]