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Posted Jul 1st 2009 4:21PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality-Free
The celebrity death march continues.
Karl Malden has died at the age of 97. He was probably best known for his role as Lt. Mike Stone on the ABC series
The Streets of San Francisco. Actually, he was probably equally well-known for his American Express "Don't Leave Home Without It" commercials that ran in the 70s and 80s.
He played the lead role in the short-lived NBC series
Skag in 1980, but most of his roles were in movies, including
Patton,
On The Waterfront,
A Streetcar Named Desire, Kiss of Death,
How The West Was Won,
Birdman of Alcatraz,
Murderer's Row, and
Meteor. One of my favorite Malden roles was in the 50s movie
Fear Strikes Out, where he played the pushy father of Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall. His last role was a first season episode of
The West Wing.
Continue reading Karl Malden dead at 97
Posted Jul 30th 2008 11:04AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming, Reality-Free
There was a time I was completely obsessed with
The Streets of San Francisco. I never really watched it when it was on ABC in prime time, except for an episode here and there, but I used to watch it every day in the afternoon after school when a local station aired repeats. It was one of the highlights of the day for a while. It's one of those solid 70s shows with a good cast and some interesting guest stars (Arnold Schwarzenegger as a weight lifter who kills people when they make fun of his size!).
CBS is going to remake the show, and I can only imagine it's going to be
CSI: San Francisco. The beauty of these old shows was the cast, so I don't know what you get by just taking the title and putting new actors in there. Hopefully they'll keep the old theme song, and resist the urge to add rap lyrics to it.
Continue reading CBS to remake Streets of San Francisco (oh please don't ruin it)
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