I recall reading that during auditions (not necessarily screen tests) that Harrison Ford was talked into reading opposite some of the actors, even though — at the time — Lucas was determined not to re-use any of the cast from “American Graffiti” and had told Ford this. Ford wasn’t happy about the situation, and…

I sometimes make Chex Mix in the slow cooker (and my oven is on the fritz right now). I think I’ll probably look up the slow cooker directions for regular Chex Mix and do it that way.

I like small grocery trips every day or two, and I don’t have to worry about bringing young children to the store, so I’m not usually the prime candidate for curbside grocery pickup. But I ended up getting on the Walmart Grocery website just to see if they had some of the ingredients for this, and ended up ordering all…

Not exactly the same thing, but worth mentioning -- both “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman” started on ABC, but the latter was cancelled and picked up by NBC -- which made Richard Anderson the first person to play the same character (boss Oscar Goldman) simultaneously on two different networks.

I remember there was a huge uproar in advance — by people who had never seen the project — because someone, I think maybe the executive producer, made an offhand comment in an interview about not being a person of faith. There were all sorts of calls for boycotts and things like that. Of course, once the thing…

Sounds like your colleagues at The Onion need to do a "Local man confused by local restaurants" story....

I watched this the night it was telecast, and I re-watch it every now and then. Just incredible. I love how they obviously weren’t prepared for the ovation to go on quite as long as it did.

My grandmother also called it “sweet” milk, and when I was a child (in the 70s - I’m aged and decrepit) I was visiting her during the summer and she sent me up the street to buy a carton. I had never heard the term before, and when I couldn’t find anything labeled as “sweet” milk I got something else. I can’t remember…

One of my favorite episodes of the original TZ

If you’re ever in East Tennessee or western North Carolina, and see a chain called Mast General Store (usually in charming or touristy downtown areas of mountain-adjacent towns) they have a staggeringly-huge assortment of candy.

I had never even heard of the Regal Crown Sour Cherry, but they sound delicious (I actually eat Luden’s cherry as candy, since in that flavor, pectin’s the only active ingredient). My birthday was Wednesday, and I had some Amazon credit, so I ordered some online.

I love nutritional yeast on popcorn. A few years ago, some friends of mine had a health food store, and even though I’m not really a health-food eater, that was one thing I came away with that stuck. I’m never sure where to look for it in the supermarket. Our local Kroger used to have it in a sort of organic/healthy…

I always think of George Murphy as the terminally-dull host of “M-G-M Parade,” a sort of half-hour informercial (although it had commercial breaks, and a sponsor!) for M-G-M that aired back in the 50s and which I found out about because TCM sometimes runs it as filler. It would feature clips from past M-G-M movies…

Love this.

Yep. It cost $3.95. https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/hardees-offers-six-dollar-burger

I recall the Six Dollar Burger differently, at least here in Tennessee. I do not recall it *costing* six dollars at Hardee’s; I thought the name was, at the time, meant to imply that it was equal in quality to the burgers you would get at a full-service restaurant for six dollars.

Demos’, a family-owned restaurant with 3 or 4 locations in Middle Tennessee, does something I’ve not seen at any other restaurant. They have a little carafe of simple syrup on each table. You can sweeten your own tea to taste, but without the drawbacks of sugar packets (the granulated sugar, of course, doesn’t want to…