From standardnews.com
Shocking Facts About ‘Gunsmoke’ That You Probably Don’t Know
Feb. 2, 2017 • Connor Shore

9. From Madame to Miss

Miss Kitty Russell was a professional Madame on the Gunsmoke radio show. However, her job was almost never mentioned on television. Network executives and producers understood that television had to be very family ( Read more... )

from Philadelphia Magazine

[I haven't been sure whether Dr. Phil is a genuine and worthwhile life coach, or whether some of his advice is well-intended but dubious or worthless (the way most alternative medicine is unproven or disproven, and homeopathy is totally erroneous), or whether he's a total (and knowing) phony, or something in between. There ( Read more... )

I've just been watching an old episode of M*A*S*H. It's labeled "opening scene pilot" in the article I got to it from, below, but the article says its title is "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet". I knew it was - well, they're all old by now, but Alan Alda as Hawkeye was a helluva lot younger than I remember him from first-run and reruns, as were the ( Read more... )

From SNL Transcripts Tonight- For Die Hard Saturday Night Live Fans

Happy Fun Ball

Kid 1…..Jan Hooks

Kid 2…..Dana Carvey

Kid 3…..Mike Myers

[ open on three kids playing with their Happy Fun Ball ]

Kid 1: It’s happy!

Kid 2: It’s fun!

All Three Kids: It’s Happy Fun Ball!

Announcer: Yes, it’s Happy Fun Ball! The toy sensation that’s sweeping the nation! ( Read more... )

"this strange white ape"

Jane Goodall, as she imagines the chimpanzees' view of her
-- from the movie "Jane"

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Now, after years, Frodo is deposed by ruthless chimpanzee politics.

(Approximate: I couldn't get it all down in time before losing them in the following speech.)
From a program on the NatGeo channel. Frodo was one of four brothers to whom the researchers gave names beginning with F: another was Freud.

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The Hollywood Reporter

M*A*S*H' Finale, 35 Years Later: Untold Stories of One of TV's Most Important ShowsMarc Freeman · Feb 22, 2018

Thirty-five years after ending its 11-season run, the cast and creators behind the CBS military comedy look back on one of the most beloved shows in TV history.

Feb. 28, 1983, represents a watershed moment in the ( Read more... )

I sat down to supper in front of the TV and watched the women's half-pipe snowboarding. Frigging wow!

I promised myself I'd turn off the TV when the event ended. Well, I stayed to watch Chloe Kim's last and celebratory run. The women's half-pipe is best-of-three, and she had the highest score at the end of the second round, 93.75, evidently out of ( Read more... )

Whether or not you ever saw the Carol Burnett show, whatever you think of Star Trek (TOS or any subsequent or alternate), you've got to see this. (YouTube 7:04)

( Star Trek Parody-Carol Burnett Show )

From Metro. 'American Gods' in the age of Trump
Neil Gaiman discusses immigrants, road trips and the importance of empathy.
April 21, 2017
Neil Gaiman hopes that “American Gods” will make your world "weirder." A TV adaptation of his critically acclaimed book of the same title, it brings viewers face-to-face with gods of the past and gods of the ( Read more... )