A B-movie queen I won’t be seeing at Chiller Theater conventions any time soon

I’m a B-movie fan, especially of the old sci fi genre, and well, sadly I just read about Yvette Vickers (81), of Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman fame (I recently saw this again; I don’t think she was the fifty foot woman herself–she was the other woman, the party girl floozy,  in the movie, the one that got the fifty foot woman so jealously vengeful), being found mummified in her home the other day.  Evidently she had been dead for a year before being found. RIP

Check this article on some other B actresses who are no longer with us. “…The larger-than-life star of this cult Russ Meyer [Faster Pussycat--Kill Kill] movie passed away from heart failure earlier this year at 72. She had a tough childhood in Chicago, where she was raped aged just nine by five men. In 1973 Tura [Satana] was shot by a drug-crazed ex but survived. In 1981 she was hit by an unlicensed driver, at 60mph in a 25mph zone. She was in hospital for two years…” .

Hey, early Keith was pretty cool

Pat introduces Keith in 1989 on the Pat Sajack show. Now there’s a feud. Pat S says he first  (as in before anyone else) introduced Keith O to a national audience back when Keith had a cool mustache and darker hair, and before he “morphed into the bitter-sounding, hate-mongering name-caller” (here). Keith says Pat baby is full of you know what: Yeah, Keith O hates Pat S now (here). I know this much. Keith O will never be on Wheel of Fortune.

Psycho chicks

Psycho chicks go wild  (notice the lack of conscience and common decency)

Please do not marry one of these types of women.

New multicultural trend: slapping the chicken

“Citizens’ arrest”

Gomer takes on a dreaded Homeland Security officer–and wins!

More: The rigors of Homeland Security training.

Baseball crooner

I’ve read ol’ crooner Bing of yesteryear may have been a cold sonuvabitch and rotten to his wife and kids and had really dark moods but, hell, the guy loved baseball –the world’s only legitimate sport  – so in my book that makes him better than any soccer-loving crooner: “How a near pristine black-and-white reel of the entire television broadcast of the deciding game of the 1960 World Series — long believed to be lost forever — came to rest in the dry and cool wine cellar of Bing Crosby’s home near San Francisco is not a mystery to those who knew him…” Here (NY Times)

Related: The Times has a pretty good baseball blog, called Bats. To wit: “At one of the seats in the first row of the press box at Camden Yards in Baltimore, a printout of a bull’s-eye is taped on the tabletop. This, in hindsight, should have been a warning [to his laptop, i.e.]. Here.

Dance fever

With legs like that this girl should run for political office (hopefully she’s less rigidly conservative than her mom).

Gotta respect the most interesting man in the world

Yes, it’s time to pay hamage to the funniest and most interesting commercial in the world.

As cool and collected as President Obama, but far more worthy of our admiration. “He once went four days straight staring at himself in his own staring contest–he wins every time.”

Original commercial

Another commercial

Hey why not, another one

Yes, these are addictive, my friend

Oh hell one more

Here’s some prime info on this commercial.

Funny stuff (and true)

Religious Kool-aiders strike again…

Instilling  fear and trembling in the hearts of the mighty American cartoon world.

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Related: Live Feed asks, Is “Muhammad” now considered a dirty word?–”…Last night, “South Park” continued the controversial Muhammad storyline, but with a key difference: every instance of the words “Prophet Muhammad” was bleeped out, making the episode practically incomprehensible, especially to anybody who missed the previous week…”

(Also see Jon Stewart on freedom of speech as it relates to this South Park episode as it origianally aired without the censorship.)

Tehran’s  police chief  warns, “Women with suntans are violating Islamic law and will be arrested.” Read here.

War without water is hell

We learn that what becomes more dangerous than anything at this point is the lack of water. Nobody has water in their canteens, damnit. They get so desperate that one Marine lifts the pancho covering the body of a dead Marine and goes for his canteen. It’s empty. In a bit of a lull, you hear a Marine yell, “I found a water hole!” It was a water hole all right, but they soon find that the Japanese had poisoned the water. “We need water!” they cry. Read more here about Tom Hank’s “Pacific.”

And the survey says…

“…Of the 1,178 women surveyed on the website Good Surgeon Guide, 78 per cent named Cheryl their inspiration and nearly a third said it was due to her ‘natural beauty’. What about her hair extensions, new teeth and fake tan? Surely, we should be saluting a Nobel Prize winner, a great novelist or a courageous human rights activist? Instead, true female achievement is being ignored in favour of a pretty little sexpot who made her name on a reality TV show…” Here.

Still on target

A Brit video from ’07, and of course still on target

Hahahaha

Hahahahaha… Cara: “It’s your choice, Margrave. An eternity of Right and Good….or an eternity of me.”  Of course, in the cascading levels of morality she could be Right and Good.

Back to the future…

Remember reading about the 1960′s Milgram experiment? It’s baaaaaaack…but now it’s a game show.

“With a glamorous hostess, a roaring crowd and an enthusiastic group of contestants, it has all the trappings of a traditional television quiz show. But fake game show Zone Xtreme – which airs in France today – has a very sinister twist. Instead of taking part in innocent contests, participants are ordered to deliver near fatal electric shocks to their rivals. Astonishingly, 81 per cent of people who took part were persuaded to dole out increasing shocks to ‘victims’, despite their howls of pain…” Here.

A view to a kill

From across the water: “…Never mind that the 10pm slot is widely known within the broadcast industry as a “deathscape”, a terrain so inhospitable, so utterly unfavourable to all forms of ratings life that only the most cockroach-like of formats, the procedural crime drama (Law & Order, CSI: Miami, etc.), can hope to survive it. Nevertheless, Leno was moved, and O’Brien, a pale, freckled 46-year-old — whose quiff is brushed up at such an angle that it looks like a kind of advancing ginger tsunami — got the job that had reportedly been promised to him in 2004. It must have taken all of, oh, a couple of weeks before Zucker realised that he had made a mistake of truly collossal proportions. O’Brien wasn’t just crushed. He was turned to vapour. And then, to the horror of both O’Brien and NBC, the David Letterman scandal broke…” More.

A Dawkins/McEwan interview

This is an uncut version of a Brit Chan. 4 interview with McEwan by Richard Dawkins.

I first came across Ian McEwan about ten years ago when I read his novel The Cement Garden.

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Dawkins Youtube channel.

Dawkins main site.

Dawkins Amazon page

Ian McEwan webpage

McEwan’s Amazon page

Pseudo science heats up

I’ve never been a steadfast fan of Glenn Beck. Too dramatic for me usually. But when Glenn Beck is good he’s well, good. There’s a lot of stuff he discusses that you won’t see on any other news show. You won’t see it on the suspendered cadaver-looking Larry King Almost Live. Not even Bill O’Reilly dares go where Beck goes. Take, for instance,  the Great Man-Made Global Warming Scam now coming to light:

“Kissing camels” and other bizarre notions

This has to be one of the most bizarre creepy anti-semitic videos I’ve ever seen. It calls into question the speaker’s sanity; I mean, come on, is he narrating from a rubber room somewhere in the desert?

On that kissing camel part– I think there was some tongue involved. Yes, by god, there was definitely some tongue.

Hispanic version of Scare Tactics?

Now is it just me or is this Hispanic TV episode’s “practical joke” downright cruel? I think what they put this girl through is way over the top. She is not what we’d call a happy camper.

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I have to admit though, the Japanese aren’t too far behind in being over the top:

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Then of course there is cable’s “Scare Tactics”

Funny Big-C vids

Key line in the above video: “Harry Potter should be put to death”(now that sounds harsh)

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Fair and balanced: Carroty expert, actor and Christian suicide-bomber Chuck Norris responds.

Letterman and the city

….on that Letterman extortion plot, where a CBS producer demanded 2 mil to hold back on a tell-all about The Unfunny One having sex with staffers. I think they got that wrong. Look at ol’ Davey Crockett; doesn’t it seem more plausible that those female staffer’s are the ones who would demand that 2 mill for having sex with him (and that’s 2 mil each by the way)? Yeah, that’s definitly more plausible. Oh, and finally Letterman makes me laugh, just imagining him engaged in “sex” with “The Staff” (I just hope he didn’t beg too much).

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Related: Holy sexcapades, Batman. First Letterman now–Screech!

I never knew Tim Geithner was this funny

Obama’s inept Treasury Secretary finally gets grilled by some no thrills LA cops.

“Slow Moscow”

Slow Moscow Moscow slowed down (24 fps maybe?) for better consumption of the details (btw, for the geographically challenged Moscow is in Russia; in fact, it’s the capital, just as Washington DC is the capital of what big banana republic?) Anyway, anyway….so relaxing……life slowed down…….so relaxing………..very nice…

Hey, let’s not leave my hometown of  NYC out of the loop. Anyway, anyway, nice and slow, so relaxing, very nice…

Nordic ice opera

I’m descended from that nordic country (Sweden) so it is with great pride I post this Swedish ice opera homage to American TV: Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, old people too, even the handicapped, we present the greatest show on earth–Perry Mason on Ice (and please hold your applause till the end, thank you):

(Click screen for original poster)

Former VP Cheney as one of the Jonas brothers…

In other words, is TV host Chris Wallace nothing more than a teenage girl–professionally speaking that is?

To wit,

WALLACE: Well, we want to thank you for talking with us and including in your private life putting up with an interview from the likes of me.

CHENEY: It’s all right. I enjoy your show, Chris.

WALLACE: Thank you very much, and all the best sir.

Here.

The laugh track

Forget the boring useless history of the Roman Empire or the history of Greece…here’s something much more interesting–the history of TV’s laugh track.