Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Monday, May 30, 2022
I'll Hold 'Em Here 'Til Hell Freezes Over or You Say Different
Bo Hopkins, RIP. He was 84. The Wild Bunch, Monte Walsh, The Culpepper Cattle Co., The Getaway, American Graffiti, White Lightning, Midnight Express.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Hopkins
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Friday, May 27, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #26: Detective School
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/detective-school.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775208/
1979 ABC. "The Killer-Diller Lingerie Caper." Private detective night school sitcom. "These Greenhorn Private Eyes Turn Crime Into Comedy!" is the tagline. James Gregory as the inept gumshoe teacher, Lawanda Page, Taylor Negron, Randolph Mantooth, Melinda Naud, Pat Proft, and Douglas Fowley as Robert Redford. Taylor Negron gets an "Introducing" credit. This was on my want list of detective shows and one episode finally showed up on Youtube at the end of 2020. Yet another short-lived show from the 1979 season.
Hamilton Camp plays the haughty French lingerie designer getting ready for a show who is Maggie's (Melinda Naud) boss and hires the detective students to check out his security system. Then Silvio (Taylor Negron) witnesses a murder, but circumstances point to him as the killer, so it is up to the class to clear him. "I'm never going to narrate another fashion show again." Eddie (Randolph Mantooth) is drafted as the new fashion show announcer and Maggie is going to model. Lawanda Page and Robert Redford trade ugly barbs. Silvio is having corned beef on rye for lunch, because in Argentina, where he is from, it is really hard to get good deli.
Detective School is not very good. Very silly. Moderately amusing. Hamilton Camp is always funny. I would watch more if they were available because it is hard to judge a sitcom based on one episode.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Sandwich of the Day: Fried Fish
Freezer fish and Covid vegetable oil I needed to use. Cleaned the old fryer yesterday. Had this fryer since the 90s. Still kicking. Let the fish sit with the purple onion acts as a flavor enhancer. Cold fried fish sandwiches are really good. Luckily I had some batter still made up in the fridge because I haven't fried fish since last year.
Wu's TV Corner #25: Ellery Queen
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/ellery-queen.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0570461/
1976 NBC. "The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario." Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, professional crime writer and amateur detective. David Wayne is his father, the professional cop. Creators were Richard Levinson and William Link. This episode features a TV show being shot about Ellery Queen and has Vincent Price as the director. Plus Noah Beery Jr., Troy Donahue, Susan Damante, Don DeFore, Barbara Rush, Paul Carr, James Sikking, Carole Cook.
It's murder on a TV set. A prop gun has been loaded with real bullets and the temperamental star playing Ellery Queen (Troy Donahue) is dead. The suspects are many, as are the motives. Actor Gilbert Mallory was not well-liked. Plus his wife, Barbara Rush as Claire Mallory, knows about his affair with Pamela Courtney (Susan Damante), and she had access to the prop gun. But who else wanted him dead and was he the real target?
Ellery Queen is an excellent show. Currently this is the only episode on Youtube but I did eventually see all of the one season. John Hillerman is great as the snooty radio host in eight episodes. Good guest stars throughout. David Wayne is the anchor of the series as the inspector father.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Young America hams and breakfast bacon, E.S. Baker, New York
Advertisement showing sailor, standing in front of an American flag, holding map of the United States; harbor and railroad in background.
[between 1850 and 1880(?)]
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Friday, May 20, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #24: Quark
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/quark.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0681198/
1978 NBC. "Vanessa 38-24-36." Richard Benjamin garbage scow in space sitcom. Created by Buck Henry. Tim Thomerson, Richard Kelton, Patricia and Cyb Barnstable, Conrad Janis as Palindrome, and Alan Caillou as The Head. United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser. Episodes of Quark come and go all the time on Youtube. Short run of eight. This was the last show of the season.
Directed by Hy Averback. It's the holiday season. #11. "What should I give Ficus? Give him a plant. Ficus is a plant." The Head is going to use Commander Quark for an experiment. The new commander is a computer. Vanessa is a fancy new infallible computer. Vanessa's perfection will make the rest of the crew obsolete. But it's up to human ingenuity and Commander Quark when real trouble arrives. Quark's space walk turns into a walk with death when his hose is snipped. Robot Andy - "I can think of a few reasons to panic!" Quark has some spare air but will there be enough time? "A man can take so much but when it comes to having his hose snipped, that's where I draw the line."
I really enjoyed Quark the first time I watched it. One of the good early sitcom finds. I've watched it several times since. Good show.
The Rock Garden
My grandmother's rocks. My grandmother was a rock hound. They traveled all over the country in a camper van and she would collect interesting rocks. I filled up the back of my Nissan truck with as many as I could load up about fifteen years ago. Rescue operation went underway last few days at the little house in the swamp. The rocks were in two flower beds. Some buried pretty deep. Some big ones too. A couple of real big ones. Saved as many as I could. Two small truckloads.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #23: Once a Hero
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/once-hero.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1089400/
1987 ABC. "Triangle." Very short-lived superhero and hard-boiled private detective show. Robert Forster as Gumshoe, Jeff Lester as Captain Justice, Caitlin Clarke, Miles O'Shea, Josh Blake, Diane Kay. IMDb summary:
The creator of comic superhero Captain Justice, Abner Bevis, is in a rut, repeating old storylines. The comic's owners want to kill the strip off due to falling sales, and children are losing interest in it. This transfers itself to the world of the comic strip, Pleasantville, where Justice realises his adventures are repeats, and the characters of the world are starting to fade. So Justice crosses into the real world. He finds he has lost his superpowers, but the comic's Gumshoe has followed him and is looking out for him. His antics create renewed interest in the strip. Bevis is inspired to make Justice more contemporary, and the owners agree not to cancel it.
Typical Friday night. "A little TV, late night snack." I remember I liked this show. Forster is giving him the business about watching old movies on a Friday night. He says my show is about to start. Captain Justice knows no fear. Certainly not women. He's been watching Oprah. Lobster Man, on the other hand, is all hands. Handsy on the first date. With Rachel (Diane Kay), Captain Justice's girlfriend. She says she thinks of Lobster Man as a friend and that's all. "It's him, isn't it?!"
No wonder I liked this show the first time I came across it on Youtube. This is a good show. Robert Forster is great as Gumshoe. Rachel has gotten herself into some trouble and it is up to Captain Justice to come to her rescue. In typical superhero, damsel in distress fashion, including all the cliches. When Abner meets her he sees she is the spitting image of an old flame. The scene at the end when Robert Forster asks Captain Justice what he is watching on TV, and he says it is the colorized version of The Maltese Falcon. The wince shot on Forster's face at that moment is great. This is the only episode available on Youtube and it has been up for a long time. Same one I watched years ago. A shame more episodes haven't shown up. Only three aired originally. They made a total of seven. A lost gem.
One Lousy Foot and They Call You a Cannibal
The Big Bus
— billyglenn (@billyglenn2000) May 17, 2022
I had no idea there was a foot in it.https://t.co/ooENGBOymm#Bus #TheBigBus #Movies #CultFilms #Cannibals pic.twitter.com/ARuv6TwfW9
Funny line but when you hear Bologna actually do the line in The Big Bus it's the funniest thing ever. He sells the foot to perfection. Many callbacks to the foot. Just Joseph Bologna's performance in this makes it funny but that's not the only funny thing. Stuart Margolin is very funny in The Big Bus. I love this movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bus
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/apr/25/my-guilty-pleasure-the-big-bus-film-comedy
https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s553bus.html
https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=629
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Sandwich of the Day: Hamburger Poboy with Chicken Fried Steak and Mashed Potatoes on the Side
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And a salad. And fries. And toasted bread. The Goodwood Grill. Monday lunch special is chicken fried steak, white gravy, mashed potatoes, bread, salad. $10.99. Large hamburger poboy is $9.99.
Monday, May 16, 2022
Anoatok
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Nero Wolfe Paperbacks
Nero Wolfe Paperbackshttps://t.co/gl9i1KLPxT#NeroWolfe #VintagePaperbacks #paperbacks #CrimeFiction pic.twitter.com/qfMziDXGov
— billyglenn (@billyglenn2000) May 14, 2022
Beer Can Collection
Beer Can Collection#Beer #BeerCans #vintage pic.twitter.com/4N80z571Pt
— billyglenn (@billyglenn2000) May 16, 2022
High Life
Miller High Life
— billyglenn (@billyglenn2000) May 16, 2022
Vintage cans.#Beer #HighLife #BeerCans #Vintage #photography pic.twitter.com/rXCcRMwHMN
Fishing - Surf fishing, Long Beach, N.J.
Man holding rod with fish on line.
c1910.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2005681001/
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/gone-fishing.html
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Friday, May 13, 2022
Cast a Deadly Spell
spaced99 turned me on to this earlier today on the news of Fred Ward's passing. I am big on private detectives. HBO movie from 1991 that is acclaimed. With Clancy Brown, Julianne Moore, David Warner, Charles Hallahan, Raymond O'Connor. H.P. Lovecraft private detective at that. Directed by Martin Campbell. Found on Youtube.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_a_Deadly_Spell
Fred Ward, RIP
Goddammit. Remo is dead. Long live Remo Williams. Fred Ward died on May 8th at 79. He will be missed.
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/13/1098760992/actor-fred-ward-dies
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/05/remo-williams-adventure-begins.html
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2022/02/miami-blues-1990.html
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/vinegar-pie-by-charles-willeford.html
Vinegar pie recipe from Miami Blues.
Big Fish
This redfish got me in a local fishing magazine. Red drum. Caught on a gold spoon in the marsh and you can see the bait hanging below its mouth. Very unusual to see a redfish that large in the marsh. They get bigger than that in coastal waters. Bull reds they call them and you catch them with crabs. Marsh redfish are fine sport with light tackle or fly rods. And the smaller fish are good eating. I also found that piece of driftwood in the swamp.
Wu's TV Corner #22: Working Stiffs
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/working-stiffs.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093343/
1979 CBS. "My Boys Are Having a Baby." Michael Keaton and Jim Belushi janitor sitcom. Paul Reubens plays a character called Heimlich. Allan Arbus, Val Bisoglio, Lorna Patterson. Greg Antonacci, who we saw in Makin' It last week, directed two episodes. Penny Marshall directed the pilot. Only four episodes aired but it got some play later when Keaton and Belushi became names. Yet another 1979 season show that has showed up on Youtube and there are more coming.
Nikki (Lorna Patterson) is pregnant and her no good husband Ralph (Thomas Callaway) leaves her rather than deal with a new child. Mike (Michael Keaton) escorts him down the stairs, head first, and Ernie (Jim Belushi) heroically steps in to be a surrogate father. But the baby is coming now, right in the middle of a John Payne film festival, and the mother is sprawled out on a Star Trek pinball machine. "Dr. Spock," Ernie says. "Mr. Spock," says the mother. The boys have to deliver the baby because help is not on the way. "Is it a boy or a girl?" asks the mother. "We're not to that part yet!" says Ernie as the baby is on the way. Uh, oh. It's twins.
There are a few episodes of Working Stiffs on Youtube, including one that was unaired. Decent enough show. Fun for the young cast. Paul Reubens is probably the funniest thing. Already skilled at playing eccentric characters.
Natchez, Miss.
Photograph shows soft drink ads around store or cafe window. Diamond-shaped sign: Orange-Crush; above it: Relax and enjoy Royal Crown Cola.
Wu's TV Corner #21: The Last Resort
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-last-resort.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1445434/
1980 CBS. "The Price of Love." Catskills resort hotel kitchen sitcom. Created by Gary David Goldberg. Larry Breeding, Walter Olkewicz, Stephanie Faracy, John Fujioka, Zane Lasky, Ray Underwood, Robert Costanzo. An MTM Enterprises (Mary Tyler Moore/Grant Tinker) production that lasted one season. This is another one of those 1979 season shows that show up a lot on Youtube, probably because of an early model VCR that hit the market that year.
A mortician convention is in town. One of them is hitting on pastry chef Gail (Stephanie Faracy) and won't take no for an answer. Michael (Larry Breeding) falls hard for a hard working girl but soon finds out she is a working girl. She's a hooker! as Norm Macdonald as Kojak would say. Everyone on the staff offers him advice. The always funny Robert Costanzo plays the maitre d' Murray and he had something similar happen to a friend of his (actually him.) The hooker even goes to cynical Zach (Walter Olkewicz) for advice herself but that doesn't work out so well either.
There are a couple of episodes on Youtube at the moment and I watched a few of them a couple of years ago. A solid B grade sitcom.
Interior is Taking Shape
Went downstairs to get something before writing some TV reviews and four hours later this is what it looked like.
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-outdoor-kitchen-is-back.html
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Scene on 42nd St. and 7th Ave.
