c1901. William Henry Jackson.
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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Saturday, August 27, 2022
Sandwich of the Day: Meatloaf with Comeback Sauce
My mother gave me the Comeback Sauce. Made the meatloaf this morning, first thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comeback_sauce
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Crawfish Pie
Hot out of the oven. Onion, bell pepper, celery, garlic, heavy cream, one egg, bread crumbs, hot sauce, crawfish tails.
https://www.gumbopages.com/food/seafood/craw-pie.html
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2022/03/crawfish-pie.html
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Wu's TV Corner #52: Partners in Crime
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/12/partners-in-crime.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0670091/
1984 NBC. "Murder in the Museum." Lynda Carter and Loni Anderson private detective show. With Walter Olkewicz, Leo Rossi, Eileen Heckart. Two women married to the same man, who is a private investigator, inherit his detective agency when he is killed. Guest stars are Leigh McCloskey, Sandy Kronemeyer, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Carole's (Lynda Carter) friend, a museum curator, is killed, and the person accused of the crime might be innocent. Carole is the socialite and photographer, and Sydney (Loni Anderson) was raised by a con man and also plays upright bass.
When I first started watching old TV shows on Youtube I focused on private detective shows. I have covered just about every 70s and 80s detective show on the blog so I tried to watch as many of those as I could. This one is not very good. The hair is big. And there are multiple episodes available in decent quality. Thirteen were made.
Wu's TV Corner #51: Hawaiian Heat
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/hawaiian-heat.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0598406/
1984 ABC. "Yankees vs. the Cubs." Two Chicago cops move to Hawaii to escape the grind and cold. Robert Ginty and Jeff McCracken. With Mako, Tracy Scoggins, Branscombe Richmond. Now they are working as Hawaii cops and in this episode they get teamed up undercover with two female cops from New York. Brianne Leary and Lorna Patterson. Second City jokes and everything; they're mismatched teams of buddy cops, complete with pranks and yelling.
The four of them are posing undercover as newlyweds and watching another couple at a resort hotel. There is a nice, long exchange about baseball between the Yankee and Cubs fans, hence the title of this episode. Very reminiscent of Carla on Cheers, who was unbeatable at baseball trivia.
I watched several episodes of Hawaiian Heat a couple of years ago. Good show. I read that the source for some of the VHS copies of episodes was actor Robert Ginty himself, who gave them to a fan when he found out he was dying from cancer. I recently saw Ginty playing a medical examiner for several episodes the year before this on Simon & Simon.
Wu's TV Corner #50: Matt Helm
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/matt-helm.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0644127/
1975 ABC. "Double Jeopardy." Spy Matt Helm gets into the private detective game on TV. With Anthony Franciosa, Gene Evans, Laraine Stephens, Jeff Donnell. Guest stars in this ep. are Pippa Scott, Clifford David, Sherry Jackson, Don Gordon, Eddie Barth. Has a pretty sweet 70s intro. Link below.
Helm is checking out the alibi of murder suspect Ed Glenn (Clifford David), who at first looks innocent, but after marrying the victim's sister, he starts to have some questions. Helm's suspicions deepen after someone tries to kill Ed and he finds out he has also lost a bundle to bookie Eddie Barth.
I watched a couple of episodes of Matt Helm last year on Youtube that got deleted. Solid show. The production values and action scenes are all first class but they only made thirteen episodes.
Ice Cream Pie
Can't burn this one. Store brand vanilla bean ice cream. Store brand chocolate sandwich cookies, smashed. Let the ice cream soften and mix in the smashed cookies. Spoon into graham cracker crust and freeze again. Don't press the ice cream in and break the crust like I did. Ice cream should be soft.
Monday, August 22, 2022
The Burnt Orange Heresy - Charles Willeford
Crime fiction. Published in 1971. About the art world. I haven't read this one in a long time.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/charles-willeford/the-burnt-orange-heresy-willeford/
http://brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/668/Burnt%20Orange.htm
The Double McGuffin (1979)
Directed by Joe Camp. Creator of Benji. Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy, Elke Sommer. Found on Youtube. Narration by Orson Welles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_McGuffin
https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=12881
Saturday, August 20, 2022
Sandwich of the Day: Sausage Poboy Cooked with Beer and Onions
Mini-poboys. Little rolls came from Albertsons. Sausage I had in the freezer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_sandwich
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/new-orleans/9-new-orleans-chefs-favorite-po-boys
https://nola.eater.com/maps/essential-new-orleans-po-boys
Sweet Potato Pie
Try, try again. Sweet potato pie. Pretty easy. Will be updated when done. 35 minutes at 425.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato_pie
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Friday, August 19, 2022
Ballantine
Martin Crane drank this on Frasier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Ballantine_and_Sons_Brewing_Company
Street Smart (1987)
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg. Next on Tubi. Never seen it. Christopher Reeve, Morgan Freeman, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers. From Cannon films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Smart_(film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/street-smart-1987
http://www.dvdsavant.com/s1018smart.html
https://www.the-back-row.com/blog/2015/08/27/robins-underrated-gems-street-smart-1987/
High Risk (1981)
Directed by Stewart Raffill. Now on Tubi. James Brolin, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn, Cleavon Little, Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Quinn, Bruce Davison. An exhausting looking movie because they jump from planes, climb walls, ride horses, swim, run, and everything else. International heist film. They're fighting inflation.
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Due South - Vault
Season two, episode two. Aired Dec. 7, 1995. Ray is legally dead so he goes to the bank to get his money and that is when the trouble starts. Bank robbers and Fraser and Ray get trapped in the vault.
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Drop Zone (1994)
Directed by John Badham. Wesley Snipes. Free with Ads on Youtube. I watched this and Terminal Velocity same night on Kinja. Skydiving movies. Gary Busey, Yancy Butler, Michael Jeter, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Mickey Jones, Grace Zabriskie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_Zone_(film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/drop-zone-1994
http://hiitsburl.blogspot.com/2013/12/burl-reviews-drop-zone-1994.html
Wu's TV Corner #49: Legmen
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/12/legmen.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0630519/
1984 NBC. "The Return of Apple Dan Bonny." By my good luck this random episode pick has Bernie Kopell as con artist Apple Dan Bonny. Bruce Greenwood and John Terlesky are young legmen working for bail bondsman Don Calfa, who plays Oscar. Guest stars are Logan Clarke, Bruce M. Fischer, and Alexa Hamilton, but the IMDb cast list is incomplete. Creators were Richard Chapman, Bill Dial, and Andrew Mirisch.
The guys are tasked to carry a briefcase full of money, but are given the ole switcheroo by Apple Dan. When opened the briefcase contains newspaper. There is a good car chase between the boys in a VW Rabbit and the bad guys in a Dodge Charger. Apple Dan is in a robbing Peter to pay Paul jam with all of his cons, and that gets his daughter in a jam (Alexa Hamilton), who is building what could be a very valuable prototype fuel efficient automobile. Eddie Barth and Hamilton Camp appear in this episode but are not listed.
I only include this one because it is sort of a detective show. The couple of episodes on Youtube are in parts and the quality is unwatchable. Very bad. The show is pretty good. I watched the pilot before. Eight episodes aired and I don't think this show has been seen much since.
Wu's TV Corner #48: Private Eye
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/private-eye.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862295/
1987 NBC. "Nickey the Rose." Michael Woods, Josh Brolin period detective show. Anthony Yerkovich created. Bill Sadler, Lisa Jane Persky. Guest stars: Al Molinaro as Nickey, Susan Blakely, David Kagen, James Lashly, Jonna Lee, Michael Pataki. Ex-cop turned private eye in 50s L.A. Josh Brolin is the rock star wannabe sidekick. Lisa Jane Persky is the secretary and Bill Sadler is the cynical cop.
Jack Cleary is hired by a movie star (Susan Blakely) to follow her gangster boyfriend Nickey. Nickey is about to take over the movie studio unions for the mob, but is attracting unwanted attention with his associations and lifestyle. This is very much like the Lana Turner/Johnny Stompanato case with Jonna Lee as the daughter.
The music and noir photography add a lot to the atmosphere of this series. I had watched the pilot before on Youtube. This is a good show. Thirteen episodes were made. I think they are all online.
Wu's TV Corner #47: Beverly Hills Buntz
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/beverly-hills-buntz.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1534933/
1987 NBC. "Sid and Randy." Hill Street Blues private detective sitcom spinoff with Dennis Franz. David Milch was a writer and creator. Hal Ashby directed one of the pilots. Peter Jurasik as Sid. Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Guy Boyd. Guest stars are Cindy Morgan, Brian George, Ralph Manza, Joseph Chapman, Erica Yohn. Norman Buntz from Hill Street Blues quits the cops and becomes a Beverly Hills private investigator. Sid, a former crook and snitch, is now his partner. The scheduling was unusual. From Wiki:
In a programming experiment, NBC president Brandon Tartikoff announced that this show would be a "designated hitter" and was originally given prize time slots once a month following Cheers and Night Court. The other two "designated hitters" that season were the Bruce Weitz and Nancy Walker sitcom, Mama's Boy, and the second season of the Edward Asner drama The Bronx Zoo.
A political campaign hires the Buntz agency to get dirt on a rival. After staking out a hotel and trying to get pictures, Norman is nearly run down by a different target (Ralph Manza), and Sid loses his pics to the feminine whiles of Cindy Morgan, who had an assignation with the candidate. When Norman finds out, Sid is on the outs.
Not the usual kind of material for a 30 minute show. It's pretty good but it isn't sitcom funny. Would have worked better as an hour-long dramedy. It's hard to judge a 30 minute show based on one episode and there are several more Buntz eps. on Youtube. Nine aired. This was my first time seeing it and I would watch more of them.
Mama's Boy
1987-88 NBC. Bruce Weitz, Nancy Walker, Susan Blakely, Dan Hedaya. 7 episodes. One unaired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%27s_Boy_(TV_series)
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
The Pale Criminal - Philip Kerr
Bernie Gunther. Private detective, ex-cop. Set in Germany during the war years. Second book in the series. I also have the Berlin Noir trade paperback that has the first three Bernie Gunther books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale_Criminal
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/philip-kerr-2/the-pale-criminal/
Monday, August 15, 2022
Roxanne (1987)
Directed by Fred Schepisi. Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Shelley Duvall, Rick Rossovich, Michael J. Pollard, Fred Willard, John Kapelos. Now on Tubi.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/roxanne-1987
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