Has anyone been watching Brad Bird on Saturday evenings as the current season’s co-host of “The Essentials” on Turner Classic Movies? It’s been fun to see him enthuse about some of his own favorite movies. Bird and Ben Mankiewicz obviously shot their intros pre-COVID, while the regular nightly and weekend intros are…
They actually did have a sour variety. I despised the original Necco wafers, but I wrote a newspaper column two years ago (I recently left the newspaper business after 34 years) about their troubles, and in the process, I ended up trying the sours and liking them. I wonder if they are coming back as well .... https://w…
There was a syndicated version of “The Untouchables” as a TV series a few years after the movie. Did CBS or Viacom have custody of the “Untouchables” franchise during the recently-ended divorce? Either way, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it get rebooted for CBS All Access at some point, just because it’s a franchise…
The legal discussions about whether this constitutes a whole new movie are sort of funny — because it was Alexander and Ilya Salkind, producers of the Christopher Reeve “Superman” movies, who were responsible in the first place for the legal clause in Hollywood contracts specifying how many movies you’re working on.…
I love Screamin’ Sicilian.
When I was in high school, I loved the book “The Mouse That Roared” by Leonard Wibberley. I did not see the Peter Sellers movie version until many years later. The premise of the book is that the similarly-small but in this case fictional country of Grand Fenwick schemes to declare war on the United States, surrender…
Do I remember correctly that this was part of the reason that Geneviève Bujold quit during or after shooting the pilot of “Star Trek: Voyager”? She had never had a starring role in a network TV show and was unprepared for the schedule.
I know air-popped is better for you, but to me, my Whirley-Pop (I don’t actually have the Whirley-Pop brand, but a Great Northern) stovetop popper produces the best popcorn. And I have the great Kenji Lopez-Alt on my side: https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/11/why-i-love-my-whirly-pop-popcorn-maker.html
Did you read Tom Bergeron’s remembrance?
Is that “SaucySauce” the same thing that Heinz is selling over here as “MayoChup” -- a combination of mayonnaise and ketchup?
Man, I miss grapefruit. I can’t have it because it interacts with a cholesterol-lowering statin drug I take.
Well, they’ve actually rebooted Spenser a few times already -- as movies, rather than a weekly show. There were the Joe Mantegna movies, and then this year Mark Wahlberg did “Spenser: Confidential” for Netflix.
And it’s also amazing that, after achieving their early success as a duo, they were able to transition into solo careers without wrecking their marriage.
What? No “We Will All Go Together When We Go” by Tom Lehrer?
I don’t watch any of his shows regularly, but the one I like — I’ve only seen it a couple of times — is the one where he invites over a bunch of his chef friends, and they’re all working on different dishes and talking smack to one another. He seems a little less like he’s performing in this one, and more like he’s…
Peter Sagal said on “Wait, Wait” a few years ago that they were going to make a joke about Guy Fieri one week, and the more they found out about him, the more they felt like he was, in fact, a really good guy who doesn’t deserve the pounding he’s taken. Yes, his TV persona can be annoying, but apparently the real…
I’m glad to see the two of you cumin to an agreement.
A few months ago, after re-watching an old Alton Brown episode about tuna, I ordered a can of fancy ventresca tuna from the Internet. It was, as Alton had indicated, quite good.
I realize it’s not a big deal to this site’s typical demographic, but one of the most amazing instances of quarantine serendipity has been the TV telecasts of the Grand Ole Opry, and tonight’s episode — with Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood — has been one of the best.