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Thursday, April 18, 2024
Collectible Corner: A wonderful mix of beautiful and generic
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Infinity: The Magazine Beyond Imagination is a slick, entertaining read
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Top Ten #297
Monday, April 8, 2024
Collectible Corner: Welcome (not back) to my collection!
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Top Ten #296: Special "Protect your eyes tomorrow" edition!
1) Total Eclipse of the Heart: I have this video in my head for some reason today.
Remember, people, be smart tomorrow and always. Never, ever look directly at Doc Severinsen's outfit.
2) Joe Flaherty: Special shout to the late Joe Flaherty, our Robert Pine Genius Award winner at the Season 9 Battys. What else can I say except he made us laugh real good.
3) National Beer Day: Speaking of Mr. Pine, you know we suggest you celebrate with a Lowenbrau:
5) Dinah, Won't You Please Come Home: 50 years ago tonight, Dinah Shore starred in this music special from Nashville on NBC, welcoming guests like Glen Campbell, Isaac Hayes, and...Jack Benny? Maybe he played fiddle.
6) Michael Douglas: The star of Streets of San Francisco has been making the media rounds to promote upcoming Apple Plus show Franklin, in which he plays the legendary stateman--Ben, not Franklin Pierce--with a twinkle in his eye.
Come to think of it, has he reached the age when he plays everything with a twinkle in his eye?
7) National No Housework Day: The boys can give Mickey the day off.
8) The National Invitational Tournament: I have always maintained that the winner of the NCAA tourney is just a paper champ unless it accepts the challenge of the NIT winner.
9) Sanford: In a lean month for new shows on streaming, this show stands out as one of the few adds I saw--the 1980 version of the show. Tubi now has, uh, a handful of episodes of each of its two seasons. Well, I said it was a lean month.
10) R.I.P. Barbara Rush, Barbara Baldavin:
(Note: Post was edited to correct an error in the Joe Flaherty item. We featured SCTV in Season 9, not Season 10. We may be able to pick Geniuses, but apparently I am far from one!)
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Are these streaming services really paying attention?
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Top Ten #295: Special Easter Edition!
1) Easter: Enjoy the holiday! If you want to revisit our season 10 opener, The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town again right here.
2) Major League Baseball: CATCH IT!
3) Upstairs, Downstairs: The series finale of the original version aired on PBS 50 years ago tonight.
4) Shirley Jones and Richard Chamberlain: Happy 90th to each!
5) Wrestlemania: The first of the annual events happened on this date in 1985 and culminated a week of promotion all over the place, including NBC.
6) The Black Gold Awards: 40 years ago tonight, this syndicated awards show aired in many markets. It was hosted by Lou Rawls and honored excellence in R&B music. Michael Jackson won pretty much every award--but not all:
7) National Prom Day: Celebrate responsibly! Maybe you'll be lucky enough to enjoy a tune.
8) The Movies: 50 years ago tonight, ABC aired part 1 of a two-part special celebrating the history and legacy of Hollywood films. How much could they talk about when Paternity was still 7 years away?
9) March Madness: 40 years ago today, the Final Four featured Georgetown vs. Kentucky and Houston vs. Virginia. the big men in those games: Patrick Ewing, Sam Bowie, Akeem Olajuwon, and Olden Polynice (Yes, UVA actually got to the Final Four the year after Ralph Sampson left).
10) R.I.P. Louis Gossett: