I loved “Ellery Queen,” especially that moment you mentioned, right before the last commercial break, when he would look right at the audience and ask us if we’d figured out whodunnit.
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He was a great Bob Cratchit in the George C. Scott version of “A Christmas Carol.”
I do! Thanks!
I love “The Man Who Came To Dinner,” and as a community theatre ham it’s a dream of mine to play Sheridan Whiteside some day. The movie version is the best, but I also recommend the video of the Broadway revival with Nathan Lane and Jean Smart.
It really is wonderful.
Now I just want Peacock (or somebody) to pick up that murder mystery parody that Paula Pell did for Quibi, so that I can see it.
In the interview, there was some mention made of “following the election results.” I was actually in Africa — Sierra Leone — for the 2016 election. I was staying in what I assume were rougher conditions than Jay Pharaoh had in Mauritius, and didn’t have a TV. But what I remember is it all happened while I was asleep.…
If I recall correctly, it has no meaning whatsoever.
As others have said, I would have taken it as an obvious joke, like me saying I’m going to go to my fine French grocery store, Kro-ZHAY.
Before I left my newspaper job in March, I did a phone interview with Victoria Jackson to promote an appearance she was going to make in my rural Tennessee county (she lives in the Nashville area now). I pretty much avoided politics, and I had a fine time talking to her — she was quite complimentary of the resulting…
I was actually hoping it would be a Simon & Garfunkel origin story.
I was trying not to be the “cool story, bro” guy, but you gave me an opening: I live in Bedford County, Tennessee, and we have a fun and eclectic little town called Bell Buckle that, every summer (except this past summer, for obvious reasons) hosts the annual RC Cola & Moon Pie Festival, a surprisingly large event…
A giant tree that was once home to a teeny tiny owl, two morning show hosts, and the Radio City Rockettes
“It’s so bad and not even the slightest bit peach flavored, but I loved it.”
I think that retro packaging is fairly recent development; I had not seen it until today.
Nehi still exists, as various fruit-flavored sodas produced by RC Cola bottlers (I’m assuming that it’s mainly here in the South). The parent company changed its name from Nehi Corporation to Royal Crown Corporation at some point. But Nehi still exists, and you can find it on Amazon. They make a peach flavor that is…