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On The Lot
Number of Comments » 0I have been watching the new show on Fox - On The Lot. The premise of the show is to find the best new director and give them a movie deal. Each week they give the directors a new assignment. Last week they all had to make a short one minute comedy […]
Anna Nicole Smith
Number of Comments » 0Well it looks like the news on Anna Nicole Smith has finally run its course. I did a search for her name the other day and most of the results were based on her job as spokeswoman for Hoodia (Trimspa). Of course, she does have some “memorable roles” in films I can’t really […]
Memorial Day
Number of Comments » 1Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day (due to the decoration of graves of those who have died in service in the Civil War). It was proclaimed on May 5, 1868 by General John Logan and was first observed on May 30, 1868 when flowers were placed on the graves of Confederate and Union […]
Dave
Number of Comments » 0Now that there are so many people running for President, I think I am going to put out yard markers for Dave. Dave was a 1993 movie starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. Dave was the splitting image of the President and when the President suddenly becomes ill, his Chief of […]
Rear Window
Number of Comments » 0One of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies is Rear Window starring Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. Jimmy Stewart is in a wheelchair and has nothing to do, so he starts watching people through his window blinds. Stewart is a photographer and finds the people from his apartment complex interesting. That is […]
Data - Brent Spiner
Number of Comments » 0My daughter found an old sticker book for the Star Trek: The Next Generations television series, so I started to think - Whatever happened to my favorite character Data?
Lieutenant Commander Data was played by Brent Spiner. Brent was born February 2, 1949 in Houston, Texas. Spiner started acting in High School and later […]
Blackbeard
Number of Comments » 0Blackbeard the Pirate was born as Edward Teach in 1680. He was an English pirate that terrorized the seas from 1716 to about 1718. Not much is known about his early years, but he was a privateer before he became a pirate. As a pirate, on his ship Queen Anne’s Revenge, he […]
Tom Poston
Number of Comments » 1Tom Poston will always be remembered for his comedy, but he actually started out first as a acrobat at age nine and then, after service in World War II, as a dramatic actor in Cyrano de Bergerac. Tom was born October 17, 1921 in Columbus, Ohio. His first appeared in comedy routines on […]
The Odd Couple
Number of Comments » 0Christine at the passionate ailurophile is having a little contest. She wants to buy something for herself, but can’t decide. Here is my post about what she should buy!
You know that I love to find out about things of the past. So I am hoping that Christine will pick The Odd Couple: […]
