Posts Tagged: television
A Childhood World of Dudes in Dresses
The looney tune Right has been waxing nostalgic about the old cartoons that unlike today weren’t hell-bent on indoctrinating our kids on deviant sexual behavior. “When we were young you could watch cartoons without having to worry,” Governor Ron DeSantis
A Childhood World of Dudes in Dresses
The looney tune Right has been waxing nostalgic about the old cartoons that unlike today weren’t hell-bent on indoctrinating our kids on deviant sexual behavior. “When we were young you could watch cartoons without having to worry,” Governor Ron DeSantis
Gee Wally, Was There Really A Cold War?
Mayfield is in mourning. Wally Cleaver, Beaver’s gentle, big brother was reported to have died this past Tuesday. No prank of Eddie Haskell, the fact was Wally remained in hospice close to death. Now with his confirmed passing on July
Gee Wally, Was There Really A Cold War?
Mayfield is in mourning. Wally Cleaver, Beaver’s gentle, big brother was reported to have died this past Tuesday. No prank of Eddie Haskell, the fact was Wally remained in hospice close to death. Now with his confirmed passing on July
The Importance of Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek
Alex Trebek spent 36 years trucking in trivia, but his impact on popular culture and millions of lives is anything but trivial. I have never watched a game show with the regularity I did Jeopardy! For several decades it
The Importance of Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek
Alex Trebek spent 36 years trucking in trivia, but his impact on popular culture and millions of lives is anything but trivial. I have never watched a game show with the regularity I did Jeopardy! For several decades it
Carl Reiner Left Us Laughing
While the world will be a little less funny now, heaven will be a laugh riot now that Sally Rogers can once again exchange snappy barbs with Alan Brady her toupee-wearing boss on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Played brilliantly
Carl Reiner Left Us Laughing
While the world will be a little less funny now, heaven will be a laugh riot now that Sally Rogers can once again exchange snappy barbs with Alan Brady her toupee-wearing boss on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Played brilliantly
Kennedy Assassination – A Weekend of Binge TV
History was compressed into a single weekend that November of 1963. It was the weekend that never seemed to end, that began with a TV bulletin and ended with a burning flame flickering on TV screens across the nation. Like
Kennedy Assassination – A Weekend of Binge TV
History was compressed into a single weekend that November of 1963. It was the weekend that never seemed to end, that began with a TV bulletin and ended with a burning flame flickering on TV screens across the nation. Like
Rhoda Remembered
Where Mary Richards was the girl next door, Rhoda Morgenstern really was the girl down the block. Never before in TV Land had I heard someone TAWK like Rhoda. That voice, those dropped “r’s” so familiar, a constant in my
Rhoda Remembered
Where Mary Richards was the girl next door, Rhoda Morgenstern really was the girl down the block. Never before in TV Land had I heard someone TAWK like Rhoda. That voice, those dropped “r’s” so familiar, a constant in my
Football Fans Fantasy
In a world where you can watch 800 channels of television shows not only on your flat screen TV but on your laptop, iPad, or iPhone, choose between a soccer match in South Africa or football in Florida, it’s hard
Football Fans Fantasy
In a world where you can watch 800 channels of television shows not only on your flat screen TV but on your laptop, iPad, or iPhone, choose between a soccer match in South Africa or football in Florida, it’s hard
Penny Marshall’s Big Legacy
Lets raise a toast of Pepsi and milk to Penny Marshal, a comic genius who was in a league of her own. Like Laverne, she did it her way. With her distinctive nasal New York voice so redolent of the
Penny Marshall’s Big Legacy
Lets raise a toast of Pepsi and milk to Penny Marshal, a comic genius who was in a league of her own. Like Laverne, she did it her way. With her distinctive nasal New York voice so redolent of the
Another September 11… Miss America
September 11th is a date indelible in America’s collective consciousness. But the date shares another less remembered benchmark, one whose impact is still felt today. In 1954, September 11th was the very first live nationally broadcast Miss America Contest. For
Another September 11… Miss America
September 11th is a date indelible in America’s collective consciousness. But the date shares another less remembered benchmark, one whose impact is still felt today. In 1954, September 11th was the very first live nationally broadcast Miss America Contest. For
So Long Sally Rogers, Single Career Girl Pioneer
If 2017 was the year of women in the workplace being heard, it also saw the passing of two of pop culture’s most iconic working women who gave women a voice when few others did. It’s poignant then that the
So Long Sally Rogers, Single Career Girl Pioneer
If 2017 was the year of women in the workplace being heard, it also saw the passing of two of pop culture’s most iconic working women who gave women a voice when few others did. It’s poignant then that the
Envisioning The American Dream 