1989.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Friday, April 29, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #14: Shadow Chasers
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/shadow-chasers.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0698877/
1985 ABC. "Parts Unknown." Dennis Dugan paranormal investigation comedy. With partner Trevor Eve and Nina Foch. Guest stars this week are Teresa Ganzel, Avery Schreiber, Robert F. Lyons, Hermione Baddeley, Jeanette O' Connor, Carl Ciarfalio. Show created by Brian Grazer and Kenneth Johnson. Kind of a comedic precursor to The X-Files. This was the lowest rated network show for its one season, going up against The Cosby Show and Magnum, P.I.
The dead are rising from a local cemetery. Zombies? Buried alive? Our intrepid investigators are on the case. Benny (Dennis Dugan), a wisecracking investigative reporter, goes undercover as a dead man. Avery Schreiber is roasting him at his funeral. When Benny's partner Dr. Jonathan MacKensie (Trevor Eve) digs up the coffin, Benny's body has disappeared. He's been zombified. An unethical doctor and workers at a health club are somehow connected.
The Youtube quality for this series is not very good but all the episodes are available. I watched all of them a couple of years ago. It has a small and enthusiastic following. Good show. This is another one that I go back and watch an episode every now and then.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
42nd St. manikins [i.e. mannequins] relax after a hard day's work
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #13: Probe
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/probe.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0679247/
1988 ABC. "Plan 10 from Outer Space." Parker Stevenson tech detective show. With Michael Constantine, May Britt, and Sondra Currie as guest stars. Ashley Crow plays the assistant. The show was created by Isaac Asimov, William Link, and Michael Wagner, and the science fiction writer in this episode, played by Michael Constantine, is a parody based on Asimov. I recognized Sondra Currie from the Magnum, P.I. hurricane episode, "The Big Blow." One of my favorites.
Austin James (Parker Stevenson) is a scientific genius and child prodigy who solves high tech crimes and has poor social skills. Michelle "Mickey" Castle (Ashley Crow) is his put upon assistant who does her best to smooth Austin's rough edges. I always like the female Watson dynamic in detective shows. It usually works well. In this episode famous science fiction writer Truman Smith is being menaced by a killer electrical alien from outer space. He hires Austin to investigate the strange electrical phenomenon. The alien is interested in a manuscript Truman is writing and Austin can't figure out why.
The quality on Youtube is not great but all seven of the episodes are available. I watched all of them a couple of years ago and I still go back and watch an episode again every now and then. Good show. I liked it a lot.
Citrus Hill
1987 orange juice. (Flubbed the title on this one. Lesson here is don't trust labeling on Youtube, which says "Citrus Gold." There is another Citrus Hill orange juice post coming in June and I may or may not replace it.)
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Movie theater. Southside, Chicago, Illinois
Monday, April 25, 2022
Brenda Vaccaro Part 1 (and 2) on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast
https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/
https://soundcloud.com/gilbertgottfried/brenda-vaccaro-part-1
In this first part of a 2-part episode, Emmy-winning and Tony nominated actress Brenda Vaccaro regales Gilbert and Frank with stories from her seven decades in show business and discusses (among other things) avoiding nude scenes, the drug culture of 60s-70s Hollywood, the physical demands of acting in a disaster movie and her memories (both good and bad) of filming the Oscar-winning classic "Midnight Cowboy." Also, Uncle MIltie hogs the spotlight, Michael Douglas drives a hard bargain, Aunt Bee meets Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino takes Brenda on a "magic carpet ride." PLUS: Remembering Ben Gazzara and Harry Guardino! Loving Robert Mitchum! The REAL Ratso Rizzo! Anthony Newley directs! And Gilbert wows Brenda with his John McGiver impression!
https://soundcloud.com/gilbertgottfried/brenda-vaccaro-part-2
In this conclusion of a far-ranging 2-part episode, Oscar-nominated actress Brenda Vaccaro joins Gilbert and Frank to talk about the fun of filming comedies, the diva antics of Lauren Bacall (and Faye Dunaway), making a pilot for Lucille Ball, the comedic genius of Peter Cook, the generosity of Quentin Tarantino and sharing the stage and screen with Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Al Lewis, Vincent Price and Frank Sinatra (among others). Also, Andrea Martin spoofs a Playtex ad, Ron Leibman plays the "bongos," Warren Beatty spots the "funny" in Jack Warden and Brenda tries to wrap her mind around the Cesar Romero rumor. PLUS: "Cactus Flower"! Shooting "Supergirl"! Remembering Laura Nyro! In search of George Hamilton! The talents of Frank Welker! And Brenda weighs in on the dramatic chops of Gilbert Gottfried!
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/11/dear-detective.html
Sunday, April 24, 2022
"Thanks for Stopping Inn"
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Friday, April 22, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #12: Johnny Bago
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/johnny-bago.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0616697/
1993 CBS. "Big Top Bago." Short summer series from Robert Zemeckis and Frank Marshall. Starring Peter Dobson as Johnny Bago. Guest stars: Stuart Margolin, Phil Fondacaro, Larry Hankin. Johnny witnessed a mob slaying and is on the run from the mob, and his ex-wfe, in Dub Taylor's Winnebago. Every week Johnny would have another adventure on the road and in various RV parks. Timothy Stack appears in about half of them in different small funny roles and Anna Berger plays Johnny's mom. This comes and goes on Youtube but all eight episodes are up now. I watched them all a couple of years ago on a different channel.
In this episode Johnny meets up with a travelling circus. Stuart Margolin is the ringmaster and big boss. Larry Hankin is the lion tamer. Johnny has to work odd jobs around the circus in order to make some money to get back on the road again. The boss's chimp has it in for him from the start. The boss's scam is that he tries to get everyone in debt to the circus so that they can never leave. Johnny's presence inspires dissent in the ranks, even from the loyal chimp, who is paid in bananas. "They're ripping you off, man! This is monkey pay!"
Johnny Bago is a fun series. Very funny. Dobson is great. Quirky short summer series are always among my favorites.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
A Cream Soda With Gilbert: The Golden Horn Salutes Gilbert Gottfried and the Amazing Colossal Podcast
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/cream-soda.html
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/coney-island.html
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/sandwich-of-day-pastrami.html
There is a hole in the schedule with Gilbert's passing. Gilbert was Monday. Not only did I start my week every week with Gilbert and Frank on the Amazing Colossal Podcast, but The Golden Horn started the week every week with Gilbert and Frank.
Most of the time I had no idea who the guest was going to be, but very often while putting a blog post together I would find some connection between the guest and The Golden Horn. Some guests like Barry Sonnenfeld had many, many connections. I didn't realize I was such a big Barry Sonnenfeld fan. Some guests during the podcast the conversation would reveal connections, and I would also often post stuff like old embarrassing commercials they mentioned down in the comments like with Nancy Allen.
Occasionally in the past I would have a personal connection to a celebrity death. Richard Farnsworth, dying from cancer, walked out to his barn and shot himself. That one affected me deeply. That walk. Phil Hartman. More recently Ron Leibman because Ron Leibman was Stan Murch and I am such a big Dortmunder and Donald Westlake fan.
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/beer-and-salt.html
I am devastated by Gilbert's death. Devastated. Not a manly tear or two, as Cliff Clavin would say. Outright blubbering. Before the podcast I knew Gilbert mainly from USA's Up All Night because I have been a bad movie fan from a very early age. Still the most impressive thing for me on Frank's resume was his early stint writing for Commander USA's Groovie Movies. Not only did I watch Commander USA when it aired, I still watch full episodes occasionally on Youtube or Internet Archive.
There is some kind of connection that happens, a one way connection, when you listen to a podcast every week for years and years. Somewhere between 50 and 100 episodes in one day you say, "I should bake these guys a cake." Maybe a nice collage. Collage of Gilbert done lovingly with colored seashells. Orange wedge tucked in there somewhere. At some point the fans want to give something back because of this one way connection. Weird Al gets a lot of that kind of stuff from fans. Fan art. And he felt bad because people would obviously spend a lot of time making these things but what do you do with it? So Al would take a picture of all the art and then toss it.
I would send in things that I would come across in my research. An old funny promo I had seen with the guest that week, or something of interest I had come across that probably even Frank with his voluminous research would not have found. One week Jeff Altman was on talking about Pink Lady and Jeff, the infamous TV bomb, and that same day, while Googling something unrelated about Bob Newhart, I found a Pink Lady and Jeff spoof on Saturday Night Live when Newhart was hosting called Pink Lady and Carl. With Harry Shearer as Carl Sagan and Gilda and Laraine Newman as Pink Lady. Within a minute of finding the Pink Lady parody the first thing that went through my mind was, "Better send this in to Frank." Frank will want to see this without delay. And they ended up using Pink Lady and Carl in the podcast twitter feed. My proudest moment.
Watching all of these old TV shows and commercials on Youtube has many times randomly led me to Gilbert. I would see him while looking for candy bars (Baby Ruth.) I would see him while looking for cereal. I found a Frosted Cheerios commercial with Florence Henderson and the three people with her were Gilbert Gottfried, Chris Elliott, and Larry "Bud" Melman. My question then was what kind of breakfast cereal casting session ends with the decision being Gilbert Gottfried, Chris Elliott, and Larry "Bud" Melman? In what universe does that make sense? And selling breakfast cereal too, I just don't understand how that happens. It was a good commercial, and well-produced. They had the camera in the cereal box, looking up, and then Gilbert would be yelling down at the box, "You're so crunchy!"
I was watching an NBC sitcom from the 90s that had Drew Carey in it in an early supporting role, called The Good Life, and the recording had all of the original commercials. In one commercial break there was an NBC Must See Thursday promo that started out with, "First on Frasier..." and then, "Then on Wings," and they have a picture of Crystal Bernard, "Helen spends the night with..." cut to picture of Gilbert, "Gilbert Gottfried?" in incredulous tone. Not the first time I had seen Gilbert's face used as a punchline. His wonderful performance on Wings as Lewis Blanchard, along with William Hickey, who was also great as his Uncle Carlton, had the strangest character arc. Both Gilbert and William Hickey came back several times, together and separately, and every time they came back the entire cast hated them twice as much. Being insulted to his face actually made Gilbert more cheerful. He enjoyed it. In Gilbert's final appearance on the very bizarre Christmas episode in season seven, the episode starts out like this: door to tarmac opens and Gilbert walks into the airport. Antonio (Tony Shalhoub) is sitting at the lunch counter, he looks over and sees Gilbert walk in the door and he says, "I'm gonna be sick."
That's an entrance.
My fondest wish was that one day I might get to watch an episode of the Amazing Colossal Podcast being recorded live in studio. And then afterwards I could take Gilbert and Frank out for a cream soda. Maybe a nice sandwich. A Reuben. Pastrami on rye. For me that would be the perfect day. At least I will always have all of those memories of all of those Mondays that I never wanted to end.
Thank you, Gilbert.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #11: City of Angels
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/05/city-of-angels.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0542114/
1976 NBC. "The House on Orange Grove Avenue." Wayne Rogers period hard-boiled L.A. private detective show. Guest starring Severn Darden, Billy Green Bush, Ted Gehring, Jerry Hardin, Susan Howard, Susan Sullivan, Lara Parker. From Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins. With Clifton James recurring as the crooked LAPD cop. Some people consider this one of the finest of all detective shows, while others feel that Wayne Rogers was miscast as a hard-boiled gumshoe. All thirteen episodes showed up on Youtube in 2020. The first three-part episode, The November Plan, in particular is acclaimed.
Jake Axminster is hired to investigate an old murder in an orange grove in order to clear the names of two rich women who were accused of the crime. Stirring up the old murder stirs up old feelings and Jake is attacked a couple of times by people wanting to know who he was working for and why. Jake's normal rate is $25 a day plus expenses but when he see how rich his clients are he tries to bump that up to $35 and gets shot down.
City of Angels is a very solid detective show. I watched almost all of them when they became available. The first six are better than the last six as the star and producers became disenchanted with the series as they went along.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Red Beans with Easter Ham Bone
Big ham bone. I had two pounds of dried red kidney beans in the pantry and two big onions so this is a double batch. Lots of chopped onion. More pics as I go along. I am pre-boiling the beans now before starting the real cooking. The water turns black so this step is to remove impurities and it makes for a smoother finished dish.
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/red-beans.html
Monday, April 18, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #10: Bakersfield P.D.
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/bakersfield-pd.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0518171/
1993 Fox. "The Impostor." Underrated quirky cop comedy. Ron Eldard, Giancarlo Esposito, Chris Mulkey, Tony Plana, Brian Doyle-Murray, Jack Hallett. Guest stars are Laura Innes, David Wiley, Allan Wasserman. This was another one of those early lucky random sitcom finds. There are several episodes on Youtube. I always respond well to the quirky shows that nobody watched.
A con man has hit Bakersfield and he's a one man con man crime wave. Or is it con people? Laura Innes is the police sketch artist who only sketches celebrities to be true to her art. Also Glen Campbell is in town and this is the week everyone is evaluated by the police psychologist. "Not since my son took his first step have I seen someone so brave. So manly." Now we can heal. After a lineup the perp is narrowed to somewhere between Cruise and young Sinatra.
Bakersfield P.D. is hilarious. A real find. Lots of old 70s cop show references. Unfortunately only six of the seventeen episodes made are available.
Wu's TV Corner #9: The Marshall Chronicles
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-marshall-chronicles.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0642472/
1990 ABC. "Night of the Chopped Liver." Underrated New York high school nebbish sitcom. This third episode written by Ken Levine and David Isaacs. Directed by James Burrows. Show created by Richard Rosenstock. All of the short run of six episodes has become available on Youtube in the last year (one episode never aired.) Before that there was just one online. Enticing because the show was little seen but had cult appeal. Joshua Beckett, Gabriel Bologna, Bradley Gregg, Jennifer Salt, Meredith Scott Lynn. Grant Heslov is in this episode and both Ken Levine and David Issacs appear as Phil and Steve, guests at the wedding.
Marshall gets asked to go to a wedding and does all he can to get out of going because he wants to go to a Knicks game. He does not succeed. He does end up at the wedding, which is quite the affair. The introduction of Phil and Steve is awkwardly endearing. Grant Heslov is the groom, Mitchell, who hilariously looks just like Marshall. Marshall, Mitchell, Mitchell, Marshall. Very funny. Alan Blumenfeld as the wedding band leader is also funny because he keeps updating the Knicks score and Marshall is taping the game.
The Marshall Chronicles was one of the early favorite sitcom finds on Youtube that I made while doing the original TV research. This time good news as all but one episode is available. Good show. It deserves to be seen more.
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Cliffhanger (1993)
Directed by Renny Harlin. Sylvester Stallone. Playing now on Tubi. Janine Turner, John Lithgow, Bruce McGill, Michael Rooker, Max Perlich, Leon, Paul Winfield. Pretty solid snow thriller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffhanger_(film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cliffhanger-1993
Wu's TV Corner #8: Buddy Faro
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/buddy-faro.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0533174/
1998 CBS. "Pilot." Dennis Farina private detective show written and created by Mark Frost from Twin Peaks. Frank Whaley, Allison Smith, Charlie Robinson. Mark Frost also worked on Hill Street Blues and this episode was directed by Charles Haid. I really enjoyed the pilot the first time I watched it on Youtube but it can only be found now in parts that is kind of a pain to deal with. Other full episodes come and go on Youtube. I've watched two before and there is a fairly recent upload available now of the eighth and last ep.
Buddy Faro is a famous private detective, the master of missing persons, who had gone missing in 1978. He stood to collect a substantial inheritance in the millions so he was tracked down by storefront P.I. Frank Whaley, who was hired by Allison Smith. Various other unsavory types want to find Buddy Faro, including a murderous Charlie Robinson as Buddy's old partner El Jefe. Henry Silva plays the head bad guy.
The Buddy Faro pilot is very fun and very stylish. Good show. Another one where I wish the whole short run was available.
Wu's TV Corner #7: Bob
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/09/bob.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0784208/
1992 CBS. "Drawing a Blank." Bob Newhart comic book sitcom. With Carlene Watkins, Cynthia Stevenson, and featuring Lisa Kudrow in a few episodes in season one, but not in this particular ep. The series was retooled for season two with a new cast. Both seasons are on Youtube at the moment. This is the second episode of season one. In that first season CBS had put together a block of sitcoms to air on Friday nights to compete with ABC's TGIF, but it was a ratings failure and all the other shows were cancelled. I watched this occasionally when it aired and have a couple of episodes taped on VHS.
Bob had created a comic book hero called Mad-Dog in the 50s that was a victim of the crackdown on comic book violence and his creation has been revived in the corporate comic world of the 90s. Carlene Watkins plays his wife and Cynthia Stevenson is their grown daughter. The comic book office is staffed by the usual collection of misfits. In this episode Bob and his writing partner are suffering from a bad case of block. They bicker and take apart the air conditioner rather than work. Like a lot of creative types they just wing it in the end.
This episode of Bob was a little clunky but still had some funny moments. I watched one or two other eps. on Youtube a couple of years ago and enjoyed them but I don't think I watched any from the revamped second season. Most of the viewer reaction I read online was negative but I liked it enough to bookmark the Youtube channel all the episodes are on to put on my watch list. That Youtube channel has some other good stuff like Fish, with Abe Vigoda, Dr. Katz, and some other old sitcoms.
Friday, April 15, 2022
Thursday, April 14, 2022
[Mannequin]
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #6: A Man Called Sloane
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-man-called-sloane.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0640782/
1979 NBC. "Samurai." A Quinn Martin Production. Super spy Robert Conrad. I watched this as a kid. I liked Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Torque because he has a metal hand with all kinds of gadgets like drills, saws, etc. This episode has some martial arts action and Torque has some pretty good moves for a big guy. Guest stars include Mako, Richard Narita (Willie Wang in Murder by Death), and the great John Lone, from Iceman and Year of the Dragon, in an early appearance doing the Lion Dance. A highlight. Bald character actor Earl Boen also appears with a rug. He was the doctor in Terminator. Mako beats the crap out of him and throws him through a wall. Nancy Conrad, daughter of the star, plays Carrie.
Thomas Sloane works for a secret government agency headed by Dan O'Herlihy. They have a big computer named Effie (Michele Carey) that talks and answers questions. In this episode a foreign leader visiting the country who had been receiving threats has his daughter kidnapped by ninjas. Mako is the boss and he also has a grudge against T.R. Sloane and wants to kill him himself in a fight to the death. Torque has a funny bit where he confronts some henchmen by showing off some of his hand gadgets and then takes them out with the flea fogger gas cloud.
A Man Called Sloane is a very silly show, with lots of Robert Conrad macho action, and outrageous plots, but I can see why I watched it as a ten year old. I still love this type of stuff. This is why I am the perfect audience for these old TV shows on Youtube. I always get a kick of them.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Curtis Armstrong with Gilbert Gottfried
Madrid, 1985. We were constantly being mistaken for one another so we developed an idea for a sitcom, starring us, called Thicker Than Water. We would play twin brothers: my character was a surgeon, his an NBC page. Nobody bit but it still makes me laugh. 💔💔💔 pic.twitter.com/VTOKzY8TWb
— Curtis Armstrong (@curtisisbooger) April 12, 2022
This was on Bad Medicine. A movie I like with a good cast. Alan Arkin, Steve Guttenberg, Julie Hagerty, Taylor Negron, Julie Kavner, Robert Romanus, Bill Macy.
Hey, This is a Some Nice Bridge, Huh?
Chico Marx and the bridge - Gilbert Gottfried. My favorite Gilbert bit. Humphrey Bogart at the post office was, "Stamps!"
https://observationdeck2.blogspot.com/search/label/Bridges
Header is 1904 the Brooklyn Bridge. From the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-2d3b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Gilbert Gottfried, RIP
Gilbert Gottfried has died. He was 67. So goddamn sad, his kids are still very young. Love you, Gilbert.
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/gilbert-gottfried-dead-dies-comedian-aladdin-1235231387/
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Brewery. Kegs of beer
Hooked It
Shit.
https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard?tournamentId=401353232
The Masters Sunday golf is on CBS. I had to tweak my antenna a little bit. Pimento cheese sandwiches. Golf is nice in HD when the signal is good. I will recommend both Peter Riegert and Tim Matheson on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal podcast. By coincidence I listened to Tim Matheson again last week and Peter Riegert a few days ago.
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Return of the Horror Host Collection
https://observationdeck2.blogspot.com/search/label/Horror%20Hosts
I started running horror hosts again twice a week on Observation Deck. Tuesdays and Saturday. First series had 105 entries with the weekend monster matinees. These are mostly older shows that don't have video but do have fun print ads. The TVM tag at The Golden Horn is the non-genre matinee shows and lots of late night stuff. By the end of the summer Observation Deck will have a whole lot of horror hosts.
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/search/label/TVM
Encino Man (1992)
Directed by Les Mayfield. Caveman comedy. Sean Astin, Pauly Shore, Brendan Fraser. Found on Tubi. Robin Tunney, Michael DeLuise, Rick Ducommun, Richard Masur, Mariette Hartley. It made $40 million. That's a lot of Icees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encino_Man
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/brendan-fraser-facts
[Portrait of Teddy Kaye, Vivien Garry, and Arv(in) Charles Garrison, New York, N.Y.]
The Legend of Su Tissue
I have Something Wild by Jonathan Demme playing on Tubi and in the class reunion scene there she was. I said, holy shit, it's Su Tissue. I am the biggest Suburban Lawns fan and love her. She basically disappeared from public life after this acting gig. Amazing talent. Sue McClane. Demme had worked with the band before on a music video that was on SNL.
https://theoutline.com/post/7399/searching-for-su-tissue-suburban-lawns
https://www.mtv.com/news/3007394/jonathan-demme-suburban-lawns-something-wild/
https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/something-wild-the-sounds-of-jonathan-demme/
F/X (1986)
Directed by Robert Mandel. Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy. Action and intrigue in the special effects industry. Next up from Tubi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F/X
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fx-1986
Friday, April 8, 2022
Terminal Velocity (1994)
Directed by Deran Sarafian. Charlie Sheen. Next on Tubi. I watched this and the other skydiving movie (Drop Zone) on the same night on Kinja.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Velocity_(film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/terminal-velocity-1994
Oreos - Unlock the Magic
Various Oreo ads. I need to make a Cookies tag. Header is new 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreo
https://www.mashed.com/68865/untold-truth-oreo-cookies/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67027/15-cream-filled-facts-about-oreos
TBS Dinner & a Movie
This TBS show came up on Backtalk and I said I had done a Dinner & a Movie post on Kinja and might have it in the Kinja archive. I did find it in the Kinja archive but it was botched saving and so is mostly useless. Recreated version here. I can get the links off the old post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_and_a_Movie
https://www.avclub.com/tbs-dinner-and-a-movie-sure-did-have-a-way-with-food-b-1798286523
Out of Sight (1998)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh. George Clooney. Coming up next on Tubi. Elmore Leonard book. Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina, Albert Brooks, Steve Zahn. Haven't seen this in a while but it's a good one. I have the book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Sight
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/out-of-sight-1998
St. Louis Cardinals, 1911
My sports fandom has not yet recovered from Covid. Baseball season has started. I used to listen to all the Cardinals night games on the radio and read. Now I watch stupid crap on Youtube and read Wikipedia. Listening to baseball on the radio will be very useful for me trying to reread Noble House again at 1200 pages. It's a fun book if you get into it and read it for a while every night. Cardinals won their first game against the Pirates. Play again tomorrow and Sunday day games.
Noble House - James Clavell
If you could see how short I am, and how high the shelf was where I found these books, you would wonder how I got them down without killing myself. Not only did I have to use the step stool, but I had to go over a chair and around the TV in the back bedroom to get to this shelf. It was like a rock climbing problem. This book is the origin of the Four Finger Wu screen name. I was rereading this book when I signed up for Kinja and I have not read it since. Almost ten years. Good book. 1200 pages. Takes place over a week. You really need to read Tai-Pan first to get the whole history of the Struan family, and there is also a payoff from King Rat. Great book, King Rat. Four Finger Wu is head of the smuggling clan. Very ruthless, very rich. He lost his thumb in a fight with river pirates while smuggling. It was hacked off. Noble House the book made into Noble House the 1988 NBC miniseries with Pierce Brosnan. I've never been able to find it but I am a fan of the Shogun miniseries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_House_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_House_(miniseries)
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/03/books/lots-of-plot-in-hong-kong.html
- Four Finger Wu: Wu Sang Fang is the head of the Seaborne Wu, a large smuggling fleet. He is also a descendant of Wu Fang Choi, a Chinese pirate in Tai-Pan whom Jin Qua gave one of the half coins to, which he later redeemed to Dirk Struan. He boasts his fleet will smuggle anything, anywhere. This includes gold and narcotic smuggling. He has Old Friend status with Struan's, indicating that the two families have had a long working relationship and have built up a great deal of trust. Ian Dunross, the current tai-pan of Struan's, continues to cultivate this relationship, though he encourages Wu to avoid narcotics trafficking as being too dangerous.
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Directed by Michael Lehman. Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello. Notorious flop (it made $97 million so not a box office flop. Critical flop.) Found on Tubi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Hawk
https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/michael-lehmann/
https://www.avclub.com/my-year-of-flops-case-file-67-hudson-hawk-1798212560
https://www.avclub.com/hudson-hawk-1798208373
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