*yes, I read the movie novelization.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Gary Graham
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Andre Braugher
Friday, December 8, 2023
Monk - Mr. Monk's Last Case
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Norman Lear
The man essentially created 70% of the TV I watched in my childhood. More impressively, he was acknowledged enough for it at the time that even as a child, I knew his name and his influence.
RIP
Thursday, November 23, 2023
60 Years of Who
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Matthew Perry
Friday, October 27, 2023
Richard Moll
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Suzanne Somers
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
David McCallum
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Inga Swenson
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Bob Barker
Friday, June 30, 2023
Lunch at Egg & Flour
Monday, June 26, 2023
John Drilling
For 30 years Drilling was a staple on the Milwaukee airwaves, anchoring the noon news for WITI from 1975 until his retirement in 1998. A man with the reputation of a no-nonsense, just the facts reporter, he did this city proud.
RIP sir.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Jerry Springer
Monday, April 24, 2023
Len Goodman
Dancing with the Stars regular Len Goodman, the British ballroom dancer turned reality show judge, has died of bone cancer at 78.
RIP.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Elizabeth Hubbard
Elizabeth Hubbard, the Emmy winning actress who played the capable, scheming Lucinda Walsh on As the World Turns, has died at age 89. I remember her performance well, as it was my Mom's favorite soap opera.
RIP
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
40 years ago tonight, along with with 106 million of my fellow Americans, I watched the final episode of M*A*S*H.
I remember the plot to this day, but what's alway stuck with me is a negative memory- the amount of commercials that interrupted the broadcast seemed endless (and no wonder; CBS sold 30 second ad slots for MORE than they cost during the Super Bowl that year.)
Like anyone else worth their salt, I wept at the end of an era. And when the waterworks, wouldn't stop, I was allowed to stay up to watch the nightly 10:30 syndicated reruns. It was an old episode from the Trapper John days, and the contrast between the slapstick humor of those wonderful, early days, and the heavy dramedy of the finale - man, it was night and day.
RIP M*A*S*H: you were, and are, one of the greatest shows in history.
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Richard Belzer
Saturday, February 18, 2023
American Idol
Idol: I think the male 12 was ok, but the choice of the female dozen was nuts. They cut Shelby Dressel and kept the mediocre blonde, which was bad enough, but then they axed Angela Martin. WTH? I had her pegged as a favorite to win. I can only assume her odd & continual personal troubles (Dad killed 1st yr, 6 days in jail yr 2, now her Mom's missing) knocked her out of the running. My early fave to win: Casey James.