DAMN FINE COFFEE! IN A CAN!

Sep. 4th, 2013 11:26 am
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Remember when Special Agent Dale Cooper sold out and did coffee commercials in Japan?

Let me refresh yr memory.









It’s a four-part mystery explained and wrapped up in two minutes – half of which is spent extolling the virtues of Georgia Coffee.

Now THAT’S storytelling.

And anyway, it makes about as much sense as Twin Peaks ever did.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I was a huge fan of Twin Peaks when it aired. But it did kind of lose the plot a third of the way through Season 2. And the less said about Fire Walk With Me the better.

Still, I regard Agent Cooper as one of the greatest TV characters ever created.

FUN FACT: Georgia Coffee wasn’t happy with the results of this campaign. Consequently, plans for a second series of commercials were scrapped.

It’s true,

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SATURDAY MORNING NOSTALGIA BLUES

Jul. 11th, 2013 12:25 pm
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Recently spotted on the Facebooks:



It’s a fair question – at least if yr from the generation that actually grew up with Saturday morning cartoons and get nostalgic about it. That’s okay – I do it too.

The thing is, as always, it’s too easy to compare yr experience to the kids today and feel that something important has been lost. Just because it’s something important to you doesn’t mean it’s important to the next generation whose experience is completely different from yrs.

It pays to remember the context of Saturday Morning Cartoons, which is this:

There were only three TV networks at the time, and Saturday morning was the logical place to put new cartoon programming. A kid in the 70s had two main options for watching cartoons: (1) Saturday morning, or (2) whatever the indie UHF stations were showing after school, which in the 70s was mainly older syndicated Japanese shows like Battle Of The Planets, Speed Racer, Bullwinkle and all the Warner Bros toons that didn’t make the cut for the Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner show on CBS. Otherwise, you were more likely to be watching reruns of Gilligan’s Island, Addams Family, The Munsters, and so on.

Saturday morning was when all the best and NEW cartoons were on. Sure, by the 80s you had new shows like GI Joe and Transformers and He-Man and Thundercats in the afternoons. But Saturday morning was like a ritual. We couldn’t wait for the new season to start so we could see what new cartoons would come our way. And it was a shared experience mainly because it was the only experience to be had – the only difference was which shows you watched (or which network you liked more).

What kids have today that we didn’t have is cartoons 24/7 or on-demand (provided they have cable and/or a broadband connection), and a more diverse range of toons to choose from (many of which are arguably better than a lot of the stuff they used to show in the 70s and 80s). You can get Blu-Ray box sets of full collections of various cartoon series and watch them whenever you want, or you can watch them on VOD if yr family can afford that service package. And thanks to social media, you can share yr love of them with other kids not only in yr school but anywhere in the world.

And let’s admit – if anyone from the Saturday Morning generation had been told this was the future, we would have drooled at the very thought.

So if the question is “Are the kids today missing something?” I’d say:

No. Ask them to trade the current situation for one morning a week of pre-programmed toons, and they’d tell you to go jump in the lake.

I’m paraphrasing, but you see what I’m saying.

PRODUCTION NOTE: And by the way, it's HANNA, not Hanna.

Overture, curtain, lights,

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dEFROG ON 45 #60: WATCH THE TV SHOW, BUY THE THEME SONG (SEASON 2)

May. 16th, 2013 11:14 am
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Previously on "dEFROG On 45":

… Back in the 70s, if there was enough demand (and if the licensing could be sorted out), quite a few TV theme songs were released on 45, and even made the charts.

As you might guess, I had a few of them myself.

I also have this on 45.



You may know it as the theme to Sanford & Son.

I figured I’d post this one separately because, unlike the others, I didn't buy a copy of it until long after the show stopped running. In fact, I never saw a copy of it for sale during its run. I found my copy in a used vinyl store in the early 90s.

Nights in El Segundo,

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dEFROG ON 45 #57-59: WATCH THE TV SHOW, BUY THE THEME SONG

May. 15th, 2013 09:44 am
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I don’t watch a lot of TV nowadays. 

But I’ve noticed that most TV shows today don’t seem to have good theme songs anymore.

It’s a matter of taste, to be sure. But it seems as though most TV theme songs today either utilize existing songs (see: the CSI franchise), or have no theme song to speak of (see: Supernatural, Lost) or it does have a theme song, but it’s at best unmemorable and at worst sucks (see: Gossip Girl, Two And A Half Men).

Compare that to the heyday of TV theme songs that were iconic in their own right: Hawaii Five-O, The Munsters, Good Times, Mission: Impossible, Batman, and just about anything by Mike Post.

Opinions vary. But for me, the sign of a great TV theme song is that it makes you want to go out and buy a copy so you don’t have to wait once a week to hear it. And back in the 70s, if there was enough demand (and if the licensing could be sorted out), quite a few TV theme songs were released on 45, and even made the charts.

As you might guess, I had a few of them myself.

Like these.





But of all the ones I bought copies of, this one was the best.
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Interestingly, of all the TV shows they represented, none has really stood the test of time. To be sure, I liked them all at the time. But I was anywhere between 5th and 9th grade when they aired, so it’s not like my taste in TV shows back then should be taken too seriously.

Don’t touch that dial,

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IT'S DANCING WEDNESDAY

Feb. 13th, 2013 11:27 pm
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Just like it says.

Every Wednesday from now on. 

[Via Too Much Soul]

Dance it out,

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I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NIGHT: SUICIDE IS PAINLESS

May. 13th, 2012 10:07 am
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I am watching an alternative version of MASH in which Col Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) stays for the entire 11 seasons, then – in the final episode – he commits suicide by hanging himself. He has assistance from Hawkeye Pierce, who holds the stepladder for him, so presumably there’s a rationale for this, but I forget what it was.

At the end of the finale, the camera shows a 5-ton truck full of body bags of KIAs pulling into an air field. The bodies are to be loaded onto a cargo plane to be shipped to the US. As soldiers gather around the truck to unload it, in the distance a fighter jet appears and fires a missile at the truck.

“INCOMING!” someone shouts.

The missile streaks towards the truck and the camera – the picture cuts to black a millisecond before impact, but we hear the impact and explosion. The sound fades to silence, cue “Suicide Is Painless” and end credits.

And then I woke up.

War is hell,

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CELEBRITY DEATH TRIP ROUNDUP: HELM, FRID, CLARK AND TEX

Apr. 23rd, 2012 07:19 pm
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There’s been a number of famous-person deaths in the last week, but I’m hard pressed to say much about them.

Levon Helm: Sorry, but I’ve never been much of a fan of The Band. Talented guy and all, but musically The Band never meant much to me.

Charles “Tex” Colson: There’s a post in that, but it would violate my Three-Week rule of speaking ill of the recently deceased. Suffice to say that all he ever proved to me about being born again is that it doesn’t necessarily make you a nicer person.

Jonathan Frid: You’d think I’d have more to say, but honestly, I never saw Dark Shadows. It went off the air when I was six, and I was aware of it by reputation later on but never saw any episodes. Yes I know they’re on DVD. The thing is, to be honest, a soap opera full of ghosts, vampires and the supernatural is still a soap opera, which is a format that’s never really interested me.

Dick Clark: Well, like a lot of Americans my age, I grew up seeing Clark on American Bandstand and the New Year’s Eve show. But I can’t say I’m particularly sentimental about either. Granted I’m not that sentimental about NYE anyway. But honestly, it was only after I stopped watching AB that I learned about Clark’s role as tastemaker. Even in terms of Top 40 music, I got more of my leads from Casey Kasem than Clark.

Still, personal connection or not, I do give Clark credit not only for trying to turn America on to the latest musical sensation, but also for at least trying to explore new music that wasn’t obviously geared for chart success, like Captain Beefheart, Public Image Ltd and X.

Also, credit to Clark for taking a stand for the youth side of the generation gap in the 60s, responding to the novelty record “An Open Letter To My Teenage Son” (a spoken-word patriotism-fest in which Victor Lundberg says that it’s far more important to love America and free enterprise than yr teenage offspring who criticize it, especially during wartime) with his own novelty record saying its unfair to blame the kids for being upset with the f***ed up world their parents built for them.

Not in so many words, obviously. But the spirit was there.



Would Ryan Seacrest do that? I wouldn’t bet on it.

Tell it to the kids,

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MIKE WALLACE IS NO LONGER HERE

Apr. 10th, 2012 08:50 pm
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As you may have heard, Mike Wallace is gone.

And if you’ve heard that, you’ve probably also seen various wrap-ups on his career with 60 Minutes, where he built up his rep as one of the toughest broadcast television journalists in US history. And deservedly so.

You probably have to be a certain age to appreciate the magnitude of Wallace’s accomplishments. I grew up watching 60 Minutes almost every Sunday evening, which meant I grew up with the idea that broadcast journalism could be more than just headlines and highlights – that it was possible to get to the meat of stories and grill people in power for answers, even if only for an hour a week. And the biggest joke running at the time was that if Mike Wallace showed up at yr office, you were in very big trouble.

Which is why it seems painfully obvious to me to even ask this, but who can you really say about that today? How many investigative TV broadcast journalists can go into an interview, ask the really tough questions and call bullshit when interviewees try to weasel or lie their way out of a question?

I’m having trouble thinking of one (though of course I don’t watch much TV news anymore, so it’s not like I’m up to speed). I’m not saying there are no good TV broadcast journalists out there. But is there anyone who’s so good at grilling people on camera that their name inspires fear and yet commands enough respect that you refuse an interview with them at yr peril?

“Sir, Geraldo Rivera is here.”

“Well, give Geraldo Rivera some Chapstick so he can kiss my ass. And he can quote me on that.”

See?

One aspect of Wallace’s legacy I have mixed feelings about is the ambush interview, which today tends to be associated with Fox News producers or characters like Jason Mattera and James O’Keefe, none of whom are very good at it.

Wallace was very good at it, but then he also understood the function of an ambush interview in a news story: yes, it’s arguably more good television than good journalism, but it also serves a purpose as a safeguard against accusations of being one-sided (“See, we even went to his office to get a comment and he refused/ran/slammed the door in our face/pulled a gun”, etc), and on occasion it catches them off-guard enough to say something they’d never say if they were prepared. Also, as far as I know, Wallace – unlike most modern-day ambushers – generally had the sense to use it as a last resort after his targets repeatedly refused to schedule interviews or return calls.

Anyway, Wallace gets nothing but respect from me.

Meanwhile, I will say that in reading the obits that I’ve learned three (3) interesting facts about him:

1. He’s the guy who first introduced America The Beatles, but no one remembers that because he did the story on November 22, 1963, two hours before Lee Harvey Oswald made history.

2. He suffered from depression and once tried to commit suicide.

3. Chris Wallace is his son.

No, really. I had no idea. I mean, be fair – I admit I don’t watch much of Chris Wallace, but I never saw anything that would suggest a family connection.

Tough but fair,

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THE DAVY JONES/BLUE OYSTER CULT CONNECTION

Mar. 3rd, 2012 09:29 pm
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You all know by now about Davy Jones.

And I don’t know about you, but I’ve been a Monkees fan almost my entire life. I watched them on TV as a kid (albeit in syndication and a few years after the band split up) and had no idea they weren’t a “real” band, at least not at first. Looking at music videos like this one (featuring Davy on lead vocals), it’s hard to imagine how I missed that.



But hey, I was in elementary school.

Anyway, if you ever wanted to know how I ended up with a love of 60s pop rock and goofy-ass nonsense humor, The Monkees were an important ingredient. And for people who say they were fake, I say: maybe at first. But you’ll notice I’m posting this, while I have yet to post anything about Whitney Houston.

As for the Blue Oyster Cult connection …

No, it’s not the cowbell.

It’s just that, when I was a kid, I had a copy of BOC’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”, and it occurred to me that the singer (Donald “Buck Dharma” Roesler) sounded like Davy Jones. For years after that I’d listen to the song and imagining Davy Jones singing it.

Here. Listen for yrself.



Admittedly, the resemblance is more obvious if (1) you’ve never heard “Don’t Fear The Reaper” before and (2) yr ten years old.

Still, I stand by my statement.

FULL DISCLOSURE: Technically, Davy Jones wasn’t my favorite Monkee. That would be Mike Nesmith. But, you know, Davy was the British one, which was also cool.

Too busy singing to put anybody down,

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YOUTUBE SURVIVOR SERIES #122: THE ONLY AVENGERS TRAILER YOU NEED

Feb. 6th, 2012 08:23 pm
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As it were.



Not to be confused with the Hollywood version.

Or that other thing.

Mrs Peel, we’re needed,

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DON CORNELIUS: AN APPRECIATION

Feb. 2nd, 2012 09:49 am
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Odds are by now you’ve heard about Don Cornelius committing suicide.

Obviously I can’t condone how he went out, but at age 75, given his health, maybe he had his reasons.

Anyway, as I may have mentioned elsewhere, I grew up watching Soul Train, and I have Cornelius to thank as much as anyone for diversifying my musical interests at an impressionable age.

It says a lot, I suppose, that it wasn’t until later that I learned just how groundbreaking Soul Train was in terms of putting more African-American pop culture on TV and (to hear Cornelius tell it) in TV ads. Even as a kid in the mid-70s South, I had no idea that was a big deal at the time. I thought that was just the way things were.

So, right on, Don.

Anyway, let there be little doubt that Don Cornelius was easily one of the coolest people on TV when I was growing up. And to prove it, here he is dancing in the Soul Train line with Mary Wilson of the Supremes.



Peace love and soul,

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MTV + LFL = WTFMTV?

Nov. 11th, 2011 09:48 am
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Y’ever want to meet a woman dressed in nothing but lingerie, a football helmet and shoulderpads, take her to the nearest football field and tackle her?

MTV would like to make that dream come true. Legally!



I’ve written before about the Lingerie Football League, and how I like (or at least respect) it more than “proper” American football, if only because they have the underdog quality of having a hard time just finding a place to play. Plus, you know, it’s chicks in lingerie for its own sake.

But I have to say, as promos go, this is a bit oddball. Dinner with the team of yr choice? I can see that. Locker-room interviews? Sure. Autographed panties? Epic win.

But tackling a player?

I mean, sure, we’re talking about consensual tackling here. And we’re also talking about tackling someone who gets tackled professionally. Also, note that what’s actually being offered here is a chance to tackle an LBL player – meaning, I doubt she’s just going to stand there like a hot tackling dummy and let the winner build up a running start. She’ll probably be a moving target, and she’ll be in physically good shape.

I would also hope that, in the interest of fairness, the contestant has to strip down to his underpants.

Still, you have to admit we’ve reached an interesting milestone in modern society when you can win a trip to a major gambling den just to have a shot at tackling a lingerie model courtesy of a major cable TV channel run by one of the biggest media corporations in the world.

I’ll also admit that it threw me off at first that MTV is backing this. I’d expect something like this from ESPN or The Playboy Channel, or even Fox News. But MTV?

Then I remembered that MTV stopped showing music videos around the end of the 90s. So considering their current programming, the Lingerie Bowl fits right in.

Hit me with yr best shot,

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SPACE HIPPIES AND PSYCHO COPS

Oct. 9th, 2011 10:03 am
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Charles Napier played both.





WARNING: The second one is NSFW and pretty disturbing. It’s also a master class in film editing.

I’m posting this because Charles Napier is gone, if you didn’t know.

A lot of people remember Napier from The Blues Brothers and Rambo: First Blood Part 2,  but he had over 200 film/TV credits to his name.

One thing I’ve always respected about him is that he got his start working with Russ Meyer. He’s also – as far as I know – the only actor Meyer ever worked with regularly to move on to a reasonably successful acting career (albeit as a supporting character, but hey, work is work).

Not bad for a kid from small-town Kentucky.

Crack my knuckles and jump for joy,

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VIKINGS: LOVELY BLOKES, LIKED SAILING, POSSIBLY GAY

Sep. 21st, 2011 11:53 am
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Re: the previous post on DADT, where I included the Village People’s “In The Navy” …

It’s interesting that that song came out when “Ask And Tell” was official US military policy – especially considering that, according to legend, the US Navy actually contacted the Village People’s manager, Henri Belolo, to use the song as a recruiting ad.

The music video was shot at the San Diego Naval base on the USS Reasoner, and the Navy footed the bill. It was only later when protesters complained about tax money paying for gay music videos that the Navy pulled the campaign.

Which suggests either they had no idea the Village People were supposed to be gay, or didn’t care.

Probably the former – I suspect the Village People were as successful as they were in part because most people weren’t that familiar with the Greenwich Village gay scene, let alone the idea that the YMCA might a place to meet guys.

Indeed, “In The Navy” was seen as so patriotic (and therefore harmless) that it allowed the Muppet Show to get away with using the song for a bit with happy Vikings.



I’d never accuse the Muppet Show of being intentionally political (although some people can see political bias in everything), but I’d like to think Jim Henson and the Muppet Show producers knew just how subversive they were being when they thought up a way to work a Village People song into an all-ages show.

Put yr mind at ease,

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YOUTUBE SURVIVOR SERIES #115: THE WHITE HOUSE, NOT THE PLAYHOUSE

Aug. 25th, 2011 09:57 am
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Would you like to see Grace Jones dancing with Pee Wee Herman?

Of course you would.



I love the great unanswered question in this entire bit: who mailed Grace Jones to the White House?

Special delivery,

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YOUTUBE SURVIVOR SERIES #114: THE PUFFY/PINK LADY CONNECTION

Jul. 22nd, 2011 10:08 am
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Like a lot of Americans my age, my first introduction to Japanese pop culture occurred in the 70s via cartoons like Speed Racer, Astro Boy and Battle of the Planets, and of course the Godzilla movies.

And – also like a lot of Americans my age – my first introduction to Japanese pop music occurred in the 70s via Pink Lady.



And – also like a lot of Americans at the time, regardless of age – I didn’t quite understand just why they were on television in America, but figured there must be a good reason for it, because it’s not like they put just anyone on TV.

Ha ha.

Anyway, I kind of liked them, if only for the novelty value. In retrospect, they were sort of the 70s Vegas version of Puffy.



It’s interesting that Puffy had far better luck breaking America. But then Puffy appeal to a much hipper demographic than Pink Lady ever did (disco may have been popular, but it was never cool – not after Saturday Night Fever, anyway), and things like SXSW, college radio and Cartoon Network didn’t exist in the 70s. Also, it arguably helps that Japanese pop culture in general has a much broader audience these days.

Anyway, I have a soft spot for Pink Lady – it can’t be easy to try and win over American music audiences, only to end up in one of the worst shows ever aired on TV.

Think pink,

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FOX NEWS WILL NEVER DIE. SORRY.

Jul. 15th, 2011 09:20 pm
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It was always arguably a matter of time before the FBI jumped into the News Of The World phone-hacking scandal.

That time is now.

And fair enough. If NoW reporters were hacking the voicemails of 9/11 victims in the states – and considering that News Corp’s official HQ is located in the US – then there’s arguably grounds for a case. Eliot Spitzer claims that there’s definitely a case that News Corp violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

In which case, he argues, News Corp should have its broadcast licenses revoked by the FCC.

Spitzer is not the first person to suggest this, nor will he be the last, because there is a fairly large group of people who are taking this to mean that Fox News could (or should) get kicked off the air, and oh my what they wouldn’t give to see that, especially over illegal shenanigans committed by the parent company.

Fat chance.

For a start, as far as I know, News Corp doesn’t need an FCC license to run Fox News. You need an FCC license to operate an over-the-air TV station. You don’t need one to operate a cable TV channel. You are of course subject to certain FCC regulations. But there is no license to pull.

Which is probably just as well, because if News Corp did need an FCC license for Fox News, it would also need one for, say, the Fox Movie Channel, Fox Sports, Fox College Sports, the National Geographic Channel, etc. And if Fox News went off the air, so would all the others.

Now, News Corp does own 27 television stations that are licensed by the FCC. But even if the FCC were to take away News Corp’s licenses, the stations wouldn't be shut down. Their licenses would likely be sold to someone else – probably one of the other Huge Evil Corporate Media Conglomerates that own all the other TV stations (who, incidentally, would also likely buy up Fox News if for some reason News Corp had to give that up as well).

So honestly, all this talk of pulling News Corp’s broadcasting rights in the states sounds like uninformed wishful thinking on the part of people who hate Fox News, regard Rupert Murdoch as the inspiration for a James Bond archvillain (it was actually Robert Maxwell, but whatever), and are salivating at the very idea of Murdoch and Fox News finally getting what they deserve.

And hey, I get that.

The thing is, the fact that News Corp has no Fox News license to lose probably won’t stop politicians and political pundits from saying they should lose it anyway, or at least use the NoW investigation as an excuse to remind everyone that New Corp owns Fox News and that if/when a US investigation results in criminal charges against News Corp employees, the company should lose its broadcasting privileges, to include Fox News.

And I do have a problem with that, for a few reasons:

1. As I said, Fox News has no license to lose, so arguing they should lose something they don’t have just makes you look silly.

2. As I mentioned regarding a completely different legal case, I have trouble with the lynch mob of public opinion where people – or Big Corporate Media Empires – are guilty until proven innocent.

3. Strategically, it’s a bad idea for Democratic/left-wing politicians/pundits to use this as an excuse to hint that Fox News ought to be taken off the air. The conservative contingent already has a grandiose martyr complex over how liberals want to silence their viewpoint. (These are the people who claim that criticizing anything they say is the same as trying to take away their free-speech rights.) Feed that habit and they’ll never, ever shut up about how the Evil Liberal Obama Socialist Army conspired to take Fox News away from them.

4. At this point, at least, I think it’s wrong to mistake Fox News’ partisan batshit tendencies, ambush interviews and partisan political sponsorships for the shenanigans of the NoW case. Even John Oliver of The Daily Show makes a great case that when it comes to diabolical media corruption, NoW reporters make Fox News look like PBS in comparison.



Which is no excuse for Fox’s MO. But there’s a big difference between unethical practices and actual criminal behavior.

License to ill,

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IF YOU CAN’T BE CLEVER, BE ICONIC

Jul. 15th, 2011 10:45 am
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Sherwood Schwartz is dead, as you’ve no doubt heard.

And I feel compelled to say something if only because it’s amazing that a guy who created just two TV successful shows – only one of which I liked, which is also the one that's been routinely derided as one of the stupidest shows ever aired in prime time – should get so much posthumous respect.

Which just goes to show – it’s about quality, not quantity. And this case, quality is highly subjective. But there’s no doubt that Gilligan’s Island is one of the most iconic TV shows ever made – and, arguably, not nearly as “dumb” as critics like to pretend it was. Can the same be said of Friends?

No.

Well, maybe. But did Friends have its own Saturday morning cartoon spinoffs? Or a TV movie with the Harlem Globetrotters where they play basketball against robots controlled by Martin Landau and Barbara Bain from Space:1999?



No. You can get away with stuff like that when yr iconic.

I’m biased, of course. Gilligan’s Island makes my list of the most influential TV shows of my misspent youth, from the old-school slapstick humor to Gilligan himself, the well-meaning dumb-ass who constantly screws up but somehow gets by. I identified with that all too well.

So cheers to Sherwood for that.

Shipwreck television,

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AMERICA: A PLACE FOR AMERICANS

Jul. 5th, 2011 10:11 am
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“That great lumbering beast that journeys tirelessly, stops only to eat a clubhouse sandwich, picks its teeth with a matchbook cover and falls asleep with the TV on. Again.”



Happy birthday, you big lumbering beast, you.

That’s America to me,

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GOODBYE, SARAH JANE

Apr. 28th, 2011 09:56 am
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I’ve been caught up in deadlines and internartional travel, so I’m behind on current events bloggery.

So even though it’s old news to most of you, I should probably say something about Elisabeth Sladen passing away.

Actually, I can’t really add to what’s already been said by most of you in yr own blogs. Except that Sladen, as Sarah Jane Smith, was my high school crush.

Well, one of many, yes. But Sladen was different somehow. She was British, for one. And she looked great in a ski cap. And she hung around with Doctor Who, which like most people my age, I discovered during the Tom Baker years and instantly fell in love with the whole concept.

She was also feisty and independent, yes, although that didn’t make as much an impression on me – Nashville didn't get Doctor Who on TV til the early 80s, and by that time, even at the tender age of 16, I thought all women acted like that. 

Anyway, I always loved Sarah Jane as a character – so much so that I wrote bad poetry about her, and even once stole her look and name wholesale to create a superhero character for Villains and Vigilantes.

If that’s not true love, what is? I ask you.

So credit to Sladen for creating such a believable, vivid character. She may never have escaped it career-wise, but the tributes that have been pouring in speak volumes.

I’m yr fanboy,

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