I'm not sure if the Comedy Store story involving Leno is all that accurate, especially after reading William Knodelseder's
"I'm Dying Up Here." which chronicled the rise of the 70's L.A. comedy scene. A lot of professional comedians, including Tom Dressen, George Miller, Elaine Boozler saw the owner of the store,…

A situation like the one you described came up during the time Johnny Carson was forced to sit out his ABC contract before he could take the Tonight Show gig. As when Craig Kilbourne left, NBC had various guest hosts sit in until Carson was free. One of them was Merv Griffin, and he did so well that a lot of people…

I'm still waiting on that drama with John Scurti where he plays a gourmet chef who solves mysteries. Columbo with a whisk,, as it were. Produce that, Leary!

Yep, that was Deputy Hale. His brother was one of the "landed gentry" of Charming that conspired with SAMCRO to keep any other kind of business out of town that they couldn't control. There had to be some sort of resentment among average residents of Charming, as taxation of the local businesses by SAMCRO was…

I always wondered why SOA never had a character that was around Jax's age, or either a bit younger or older as a former resident of Charming who left due to SAMCROs rule of the town, and the lack of opportunity come back as a law enforcement officer who was competent, and lived to stick it to the club and Unser,…

The account that mentioned O'Hara's freaking out was in Dennis Perrin's bio of O'Donoghue, "Mr. Mike", which mentioned his Mary Gross/"Old shoes" remark. Perrin also said that the only cast member O'Donoghue respected was Eddie Murphy, as he was the only one who wasn't scared of him.

I stand corrected, as I read this story about O'Donoghue & Pardo on Mark Evanier's blog. As much as a fan of Mr. Mike as I am, he was a lousy choice to produce SNL. Head Writer/Co-Producer perhaps, but I couldn't see him holding the talent's hands. Especially after his first day on the job, when he ripped into the…

Fun fact. The year Michael O'Donoghue produced SNL (Actually, the few months that he produced SNL) one of his ideas was to fire Don Pardo on the air. For real. Long story short, NBC refused to let him fire Pardo, either on or off the air. When the next season rolled around, O'Donoghue was gone and Don was still…

I remember a story that Brian Setzer told in which he and Joe Strummer and their families would vacation together in the Southwest, and they would rent huge Cadillacs and check out all the touristy trap places and smoke big cigars. Setzer's words, not mine.

Merrill Markoe said it best, in one of her articles for Rolling Stone, about the upcoming television season, "Misfits Of Science is proof positive that NBC will keep remaking Manimal until they get it right."

At one point, Costello had Richard Thompson waiting in the bullpen, to do some guitar work on GCW, but wound up not using him. He should have.

I'm a Berea alumni. Long story short, Berea,Kentucky is the Austin, Texas of Kentucky.

Sometimes, "flower cars" were also used as "first call" vehicles, to transport the person from where they died, to the funeral home. I'm pretty sure that station wagon conversions and van/mini-van conversions are used for this in most places now.

Just did a quick and dirty check. Both EC and Jane's Addiction were to tape on the same day, But Jane's bailed, claiming ignorance about their being scheduled to perform, after a lot of phone tag was played. They were going to cancel the Costello taping as well, as two shows were usually taped on the same day to…

The Elvis Costello one was interesting, mainly for what was cut. EC wasn't in a good mood to begin with, as they were also taping the Jane's Addiction Unplugged on the same day, and the MTV suits were swooning over them, and giving short shrift to Costello and his band. So, he snarked out loud about MTV's accepting…

I have noticed those cuts on Goodfellas on IFC. On AMC, Two scenes are cut of out of Pulp Fiction, One, where Travolta shoots up Heroin, and the scene where Vincent accidentally blows off Marvin's head. It cuts away from the scene immediately, and jump cuts to Tarantino's character's house. I'm not sure if they cut…

I saw a Maybach limousine as I was driving though Berkeley Springs,WV in around 2001. It had New Jersey tags, and the driver was probably taking the short cut from I-70 to Winchester,VA via US 522.

I saw a 1961 Cadillac 75 Series Limousine turn up on Pawn Stars. It was in similar shape to the one in this article, and while Rick and the guy who checks the cars for the show loved it, it was going to cost between 40-50K to give it a total restoration, so it wound up unpurchased.

Obviously, Harry is still pissed that John Larroquette won all the Emmys for "Night Court."

I read a great comment the other day about Norm getting the Late Late Show. It went something like, "Norm would show up and do the best 4 shows ever seen on late night TV, then get bored and just stop coming to work."