burt reynolds-related stories
Posted Aug 5th 2009 8:57PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Reality-Free
First there was the news that
The Big Valley is going big screen. Now it's
Gunsmoke getting the silver screen adaptation. Are westerns coming back and nobody told me?
Gunsmoke, the long running CBS western, the series that made a star of James Arness and was a fixture on the Tiffany network from 1955-1975, will be turned into a motion picture.
CBS Films has turned to the writer of
National Treasure: Book of Secrets to craft a new incarnation of the exploits of Marshal Matt Dillon in the western town of Dodge City. The Marshal, as fans of the show or those who've seen the drama on TVLand, was ably assisted by Miss Kitty -- owner of the Long Branch Saloon -- and Doc Adams, the Dodge City doctor.
Continue reading Gunsmoke getting the big screen treatment
Posted Jul 21st 2009 7:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities
You probably haven't given a second thought as to who
Top Chef Masters judge Gael Greene has slept with (why would you?), but you're about to find out. Greene describes it all in her 2006 memoir
Insatiable.
She has always seemed like an interesting character to me, one of the judges on that show (or the original) that seems to have an intriguing, wild background. And in the book she describes the various famous men she has slept with, and that list includes Elvis (Presley, not Costello), Burt (Reynolds, not Ward), and Clint (Eastwood, not Black).
Here's an excerpt from Greene's book.
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Posted Jun 9th 2009 3:03PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Reality-Free
Last month's triumphant return of the
"Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketch to Saturday Night Live was a hilarious bit of celebrity snark genius. It is without a doubt the only sketch in the show's history that just gets better and better every time a new one is rolled out for the public to digest and enjoy.
The most recent incarnation of the sketch was no exception. In fact, it built on the solid foundation that lay before it by casting Tom Hanks as a clueless himself and bringing back Norm MacDonald as Burt Reynolds. MacDonald's appearance was funny not just because he does a scary good Reynolds, but I also like to think that every time he returns to the show, Don Ohlmeyer cries a little inside.
As much as there was to laugh at in the sketch, a tiny but hilarious joke seeped through the cracks and no one seemed to spot it -- until now. I have found the missing joke from last month's J
eopardy! sketch, thanks to my keen eyes, my intrepid nose and my ever-widening butt.
Continue reading The joke that everyone missed from SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy revival
Posted May 5th 2009 1:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality-Free
There was a sitcom on for a short time in the 70s titled
Lotsa Luck. It starred Dom Deluise as a single guy who lived with his overbearing mother. I remember it being the funniest thing in the world, but I was around 8 or 9 years old at the time so if I were to see it today I'm sure I'd realize that I was wrong. But I do know that I went around saying "lotsa luck!" to people for several months after the show premiered.
Deluise died last night in Los Angeles. He was 75.
Continue reading Dom Deluise dead at 75
Posted Aug 4th 2008 3:23PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free
I can't believe it's gone. I've been watching for weeks now and the damn thing has grown on me, not to mention the polyester pants and paisley shirts. Are you lost? I'm talking about
Swingtown. There are but two episodes left of the series and unless there's a dramatic spurt in the ratings, I don't think CBS is going to re-up the show. Add to that the fact that Grant Show has shaved his moustache. That could be a signal that
Swingtown is not coming back.
Grant actually named the Fu-Manchu moustache, Sebastian. "[It'd] gotten out of control. The moment they called wrap on the last episode,
I shaved it off," he told the New York Times. "I feel like myself again. People who didn't know me looked at me like, 'What the hell are you doing?' I was at a restaurant the other day, and a woman asked me if I was a porn star."
Continue reading Grant Show and the porno moustache
Posted Jun 6th 2008 9:03AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars
There's no doubt a run on
Dancing with the Stars is a boost to careers. Just consider Marie Osmond; was anybody knocking on her door for work before she fainted in between the waltzes and sambas? Well, according to
Cybill Shepherd, the producers of Dancing with the Stars want her to take part in the competition. Whether they want her or she's saying they want her to get some press, Cybill goes on to say that she could consider being a contestant on the uber-popular reality show, but only if she can find the time to devote to rehearsing.
Cybill has been busy acting of late.
She's going to appear on PSYCH in July when the show comes back with new episodes, playing Shawn's mother. There's also a feature called
Barry Munday. Seemingly, she could make room in her work schedule for
Dancing, and she claims she's really good at it and has fielded offers from them, "I love ballroom dancing. I've been offered
Dancing with the Stars and I'd love to do it. I'm sure I could do it. It's just a really hard training period and I just haven't had time to devote to that."
Continue reading Cybill Shepherd contemplates Dancing with the Stars
Posted Jun 14th 2007 4:19PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: The Sopranos
OK, if you're not all exhausted by the Sopranos talk and examination of that final scene, let me bring up yet another take on the episode, via a friend of TV critic Roger Catlin at The Hartford Courant.
During the scene in the safehouse in the episode, there an an episode of The Twilight Zone playing on the television. An alert viewer figured out that it was the 1963 episode "The Bard," where a TV writer gets help from the ghost of William Shakespeare, who gets angry at the meddling from advertisers and the network and eventually punches an actor (Burt Reynolds).
Continue reading Did David Chase take his cue from The Twilight Zone?
Posted Dec 3rd 2006 6:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable
Toby Keith, country star and supporter of the rectally-inserted footwear approach to terrorism, recently starred in the movie
Broken Bridges, about a country star who returns home to his high school sweetheart and a sixteen year old daughter he's never met. The movie also stars Willie Nelson, Kelly Preston, Tess Harper and Burt Reynolds. CMT Films produced the movie along with Paramount, so if you missed it in the theaters you can catch it on CMT Friday December 15 at 8 pm before the DVD comes out on January 9. CMT will also be airing several specials centered around Toby Keith, just in case you have a deficiency in your Toby system and need to get re-energized. Remember, the surgeon general recommends four servings of Toby a day. At least that guy at the bus stop claimed he was the surgeon general. I was somewhat suspicious since he was telling this to a half-eaten can of peas with his pants around his ankles. Still, one must respect his elders.
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