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Saturday, May 29, 2004

Posted by Daniel Frank at 9:18 AM

The Action channel (part of the Starz superduper package) is broadcasting Green Hornet reruns and no one had the decency to tell me?

In other news, Turner Classic Movies is running Man of a Thousand Faces on Wednesday. This is of interest here since it features Robert Evan's motion picture debut as mogul Irving Thalberg.

Man of a thousand faces? Ha! More like 763 faces. But we can fake those missing 237 faces. After all, they don't call me the boy genius of Hollywood because of my good looks. Sometimes if life hands you lemons, you've got to throw those lemons back at life and say "Screw you and your crummy lemons."

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:07 AM

Salon reported that Michael Moore interviewed Nicholas Berg for his new movie Farenheit 911. The loud noise you may be hearing is my snort of derisive laughter at Salon's claim that "word of the footage reached Salon through a source unaffiliated with Moore, or his film". Suuuuure.

Conveniently, the footage is not in the final cut and Moore's statement says that he's privately dealing the family. My uneducated guess is the interview didn't happen. It's not like there isn't precedent for Michael Moore making up interviews.

UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg reached the same conclusion. Also Berg's sister is suspicious

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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:13 PM

Defamer has a couple of reviews of the Andy Kaufman back-from-the-dead show Sunday. Arguably topping the milk and cookie of the Carnegie Hall show, the show was continued at the Bunny Ranch brothel and all who showed there got a free round with a prostitute (and I don't mean a round of wrestling) (well, in a way, I guess I do). Defamner also has pictures from the Ranch

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Monday, May 17, 2004

Posted by Daniel Frank at 4:06 PM

I don't normally go to Star Trek conventions (yeah, sure-ed. Shut up!) but I'm strongly tempted to go to this one which supposedly will be James (TV's Scotty) Doohan's last convention appearance. (If you never go to Star Trek conventions, how come you were on the Star Trek web site?-ed. Yeah, well, at least I'm not a bad ripoff of Mickey Kaus shtick.)

UPDATE: The official press release from the convention organizers.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 12:19 PM

Andy Kaufman is back and has the Blog to prove it.

UPDATE: Although you'd think he'd be willing to pay a lousy twelve bucks to drop his banner ad.

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Saturday, May 15, 2004

Posted by Daniel Frank at 2:24 PM

Now that Blogger provides comments, I'm going to go ahead and turn them on as an experiment. Keep it clean.

UPDATE: I find that Blogger requires you to either be a member of blogger or sign your comment as "anonymous". To hell with that. I'll look into various Comment services and find something better maybe.

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Saturday, May 08, 2004

Posted by Daniel Frank at 4:40 PM

When I was purchasing Volume 2 of the Abbott & Costello boxed set, I noticed that Universal had also put the classic Road movies in a Franchise Collection.

In more important Universal DVD news, according to Entertainment Weekly's review of the Marx Brothers DVD set, the Paramount Marx Brothers movies (owned by Universal) are coming to DVD later this year.

Maybe hopes that the complete Laurel and Hardy set, currently only available in Britain, might come to America or that some sort of Laurel & Hardy release might come to America isn't a pipe dream.

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Friday, May 07, 2004

Posted by Daniel Frank at 10:14 AM

Supposedly, Andy Kaufman spoke of faking his death and returning twenty years later. Kaufman died on May 16, 1984 so that anniversary is coming up in less than two weeks. The House of Blues is holding a special show on that day. This LA Weekly article is about that show and Andy and also points out that Zmuda's book said Andy spoke of returning ten years later.

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Saturday, May 01, 2004

Posted by Daniel Frank at 3:33 AM

The voice cast of the Simpsons have renewed their contract. Our long national nightmare is over.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 1:53 AM

Said LA Weekly article includes this link to video footage of Bush wiping his glasses with Letterman's producer's sweater. Said site states that this footage is proof of Bush's arrogance.

I pointed out to the friend who sent me this link that if the election is going to be decided by "most arrogant loses", then Senator John Kerry is in trouble what with the dozens of stories of his pulling "Do you know who I am?" status to cut in line (including one from Dave Barry).

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 1:47 AM

The person who wrote the LA Weekly article complaining of the alleged rightward drift of Leno (which I discussed here) has a new article complimenting Letterman for doing wacky Bush footage. The article includes this slam against Leno

Both Leno and Letterman wished Clinton could have a third term, and while Jay is still flogging really old blow-job humor...

That quote would be more relevant if the article hadn't been released the week Letterman had been dipping deep into the Clinton well, including a top-ten list. Timing is thus the secret not just of comedy but of articles about comedy.

The article also mentions parenthetically that until May of 2001, the guy in charge of Leno's monologues worked for an ultraliberal Congressman. This raise the question of how come there weren't newspaper articles then expressing outrage that Leno was breaking tha political trust of the Tonight Show.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 1:20 AM

Speaking of Nightline, here the executive producer of Nightline says "Sweeps? What are these "sweeps" of which you speak of?"

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 1:10 AM

A reader noted to me via email that it's been fifteen days since my last update. If that weren't enough to get me off my ass and updating, I thought I heard Ted Koppel read my blog's name in tonight's Nightline.

I was unable to post since I've been waiting in line for the release of the Marx Brothers DVD set. Finally the store manager told me to go home and that there'd be plenty of copies whenever I came to the store. "That's what you said about the Abbott & Costello DVD's," I pointed out. "And I was right, " he replied. "You win this round," I said.

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