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Monday, September 29, 2003
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# | | Saturday, September 27, 2003
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9:30 AM
And this page from Commercial Closet has a QuickTime film of the Fred-in-drag commercial as well as analysis of the ad in context of society's homophobia. Yeah, I rolled my eyes too. # | |
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9:28 AM
I falsely remember him saying that line in a silly, high-pitched voice but appear to be mistaken. I may be mixing it up with my memory of that commerical with the Time-to-Make-the-Donuts-Guy in a dress tricking the grocery store clerk into confessing that grocery store donuts have neither the variety nor the freshness of Dunkin Donuts. And here's the Good Burger fan site. # | |
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# | | Friday, September 26, 2003
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5:39 PM
I was disappointed to find out from a friend that a screening of the movie was not filled with people holding puppets. # | |
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# | | Wednesday, September 24, 2003
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8:53 PM
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8:42 PM
One thing that makes Anything Else a great bargain is that you get not one, not two, but three Woody Allens in this movie. You have Woody, of course. You get Jason Biggs as the Woody-esque protagonist. And Danny Devito as Biggs's ineffectual manager does a Broadway Danny Rose impression. # | |
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8:01 PM
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8:00 PM
Wells recalled that while on vacation in Hawaii last spring, he watched the show's two-episode finale (the kidnapping of President Bartlet's daughter). In what he described as a "self-pitying moment," Wells wondered to his wife, 'Well, how am I supposed to get out of that?'" # | | Tuesday, September 23, 2003
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# | | Monday, September 22, 2003
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2:41 PM
Katz also points out something I noticed when I read the question: What's missing is a category for those who know the evidence doesn't exist but aren't willing to dismiss the possibility entirely. And speaking of poorly worded questions, the fourth question of the poll asking if Hussein "had already developed weapons of mass destruction" doesn't indicate if it means ever or recently. If it meant ever, one wonders if the 19% not likely (either "very" or "at all") think Hussein gassed the Kurds in 1988 with his mind. # | |
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2:32 PM
# | | Wednesday, September 17, 2003
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12:57 PM
They also book Joe Piscopo. My friend who pointed the Legends link to me thought it was a Joe Piscopo imitator which, of course, brings up the question "Is Joe Piscopo really that much more expensive to than a Joe Piscopo imitator?" UPDATE: Further examintaion of the site reveals the Richard De La Font Agency claims to book David Letterman. My suspicion is that they just list anyone who is or was ever a comedian. # | |
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# | | Monday, September 15, 2003
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10:46 AM
Blanche Morton is mad at Harry and is standing in her kitchen holding an iron skillet to hit Harry over the head. She calls him into the kitchen. George off-stage calls out hold it. Blanche freezes in place and George walks on-screen and explains that Fred Clark has left the show to go to NY and from now on Harry Morton will be played by Larry Keating who he brings on and introduces in front of the frozen in place Blanche. He asks Larry if he has ever met his TV wife and calls Bea into the foreground to meet Larry Keating. They exchange pleasantries. Then George says it is time to go on with the scene. He and Keating walk off and the scene resumes and the new Harry Morton walks in and gets hit with the skillet.That's what happens when you basing a story off a vague memory of reading it in book. I did some heavy web searching and found two or three sources who claimed both actors in the transition episode. Ah well. I may drop by the Museurm of Television and Radio and see if they have the episode. # | | Saturday, September 13, 2003
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# | | Friday, September 12, 2003
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11:08 PM
George Burns interrupts a scene with Clark. He introduces Keating to the audience and explains that he will now be playing the role of Harry Morton. Clark and Keating shake hands; Clark leaves and Keating continues with the scene. UPDATE: Mark comments that actors dying are a different problem from actors leaving. Which I knew, I just wanted an excuse to tell that story. Mark also notes that killing off characters is a legitimate creative decision on M*A*S*H*. I agree but it's also a good negotiating tool. Jamie Farr (TV's Klinger) has said that at contract time producers claimed to have scripts at the ready to kill off his character. UPDATE 2: Story is corrected here. # | |
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11:35 AM
# | | Thursday, September 11, 2003
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10:01 PM
Much has been made of the sympathy that the French expressed for the United States immediately after the September 11 attacks, as embodied by the famous editorial of Le Monde's publisher Jean-Marie Colombani, "Nous Sommes Tous Américains" ("We are all Americans"). And much has been made of the speed with which the United States presumably squandered that sympathy in the months that followed. But even Colombani's column, written on so searing a day, was not the unalloyed message of sympathy suggested by the title. Even on that very day, Colombani wrote of the United States reaping the whirlwind of its "cynicism"; he recycled the hackneyed charge that Osama bin Laden had been created and nurtured by U.S. intelligence agencies.In other words "Nous Sommes Tous Américains mais..." # | |
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9:46 AM
At Mr. Zelmanowitz’s funeral, the story was told that, a few days before the attack, he attended a Sabbath lesson. The rabbi talked about sacrificing oneself for the love of God. Mr. Zelmanowitz asked the rabbi how a simple man, like him, could show his love of God. Apparently, he was not satisfied with the answer, for he asked the same question a few more times. He remained dissatisfied with the answers he received. As the person telling this story commented: "A few days later, he got the reply." # | | Wednesday, September 10, 2003
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# | | Friday, September 05, 2003
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1:17 PM
If your son is murdered and I claim that it never happened, I am denying the existence of a crime. But if your son is murdered and I compare that tragedy to losing your car keys, that is a form of denial, too. And this is precisely what the "Bush equals Hitler" crowd is doing.Read, as they say, the whole thing. # | |
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11:42 AM
# | | Thursday, September 04, 2003
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2:05 PM
It recounts -- in a light, breezy manner -- how the Soviet leader had flown all the way to America to meet with President Eisenhower. But -- in reality -- Nikita had come to the U.S. just because he wanted to go to Disneyland.The full article (which also details what happened in real-life) is here. The link came from another article on the same site detailing Bob Hope's dealings with Walt, including Hope's spurious claim that he incited the Disneyland tantrum by telling Mrs. Kruschev "You should really try to go to Disneyland. It's wonderful." # | |
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