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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 Sep 25th 2007 2:28PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: The Simpsons, Animation
Apparently, someone had some free time on his or her hands and used it to post various stills from The Simpsons episodes which mimic various famous movie or television scenes. Considering that the show has been around for almost 20 years, it's certainly had time to get such pastiche correct.
These stills seem to originate from earlier episodes, back when the naysayers would say the show was good. I admit I don't recognize every Simpsons episode in the list (or for that matter every movie still in the list), but it's easy to tell that the writers and animators were trying to reference the original movie or show for satire's sake.
Continue reading A Simpsons satirical history
Posted Dec 23rd 2006 5:37PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 8, FOX has a new Cops, followed by a repeat episode and a new America's Most Wanted. - NBC has a new, two hour Dateline at 8.
- TLC has two new episodes of Little People, Big World at 8.
- ABC Family has Eloise at Christmastime at 8.
- AMC has Patton at 8.
- Diamonds Are Forever airs on Spike at 8.
- Hallmark is showing Christmas movies all night.
- At 9, Food Network has Al Roker's Christmas in New York.
- Also at 9: Showtime has Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead 2.
- At 10, TLC has a new Trading Spaces.
- At 10:30, TBS has National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, followed by The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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