I never planned to have a "channel," but my worry reached a high point that one of my great loves, film broadcast introductory segments (a love instilled at a very early age through horror hosts), was fading more and more into obscurity. I recorded broadcasts on VHS for over 10 years and lost nearly 1000 tapes to flood damage. Only a fraction of my TV memories have surfaced here, so I decided my personal collection in the digital age couldn't stay personal. I was inspired to think about the film/TV nostalgia of the next twenty years, and this brought me to only two channels, MeTV and Turner Classic Movies. I have been trying to preserve as much filler as I can from these networks (intros, shorts, promos and commercials that often run only once), and I hope that they continue to provide viewers here with the compliment to classic film and television that they provide for me.
Having grown up on Ultraman a couple of years earlier, my friends and I would laugh at this as a cheap, cornball copy of Hiyata and the Science Patrol crew. Dr. Gori and his hand talking histrionics along with the even cheesier "special effects" were high comedy to us and while we watched Ultraman with suspense, we would watch Spectreman with lung clearing laughter as comedy relief.
The host, Osborn, said Benny was going to play in The Sunshine Boys with Walter Matthau. Actually, he was going to share the bill with George Burns. Matthau replaced Benny.
My buddy Janel and I were very far apart from each other when I was recovering from a hysterectomy operation on Labor Day weekend in 2014. I got it in my head that I would see whether or not edible panties are real. I found some on Amazon that were made of the same substance as fruit roll-ups. I shared the link to them with Janel for a laugh. The only work of Gene's of which I was sufficiently aware and sufficiently connected to to control said connection was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, whidh I didn't see or at least didn't attend to until I was in high school, so that was the day Gene died.
I'm no actor, but this was Gene medium, in which he felt most at home, through which he processed his world, and it shaped much of his world and how he saw it. I love him, but it's difficult to have the discipline and focus to interpret what he said was that his knowledge and commitment to legitimate theater. That said, I think he was trying to say that he felt I did my best work as an actor in the context of my world and with the most special people with whom i have shared it.
I met Rory at Forest Lawn Cemetary on the 30th anniversary of Errols death. She was very friendly and gracious. She was carrying her son Sean/Rio in her arms. Happy belated birthday Errol. My favorite actor,and one of my all tine heroes.
My friends and I started a Movie Club where each week we agree to watch a movie we've never seen before. As I was tallying up all the decades I realized between the 1930s and the 2020s the only two decades we haven't picked where the 2000s and the the 1930s. I really like Cary Grant and I've never seen a Howard Hawks picture so this sounds like a great pick!
Just saw this film. Nowhere near as good as THE SAINT STRIKES BACK (1939), my favorite pairing of George Sanders & Wendy Barry, but it has some good moments & is worth seeing once.
