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A Los Angeles native, Matthew Beard was the highest paid Rascal and with good reason. There wasn't anything forced or false about his performances, he was adorably enthusiastic. The camera loved him, so did film audiences and his peers. Stan Laurel, one of the child actor's comedy influences, gave Stymie the bowler hat he wore in the series out of admiration for his work. So... Whatever Happened to Stymie?
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Worst.
Commercial. Ever.
I'm
not even going to set this one up except to say - can you imagine
a worse TV ad? At least now we know where George Lucas got the idea
for Jabba the Hut. From the summer of '75 -
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Classic
Commercials for Women
From
the very beginning of the ad age, women became a key strategic focal
point for advertisers. The polyester decade in particular played host
to some of the most memorable and wildly successful ad campaigns of
all time. All too often, early TV advertisements aimed at "the
weaker sex" were condescending and simplistic. The women's movement
in the sixties was one factor leading advertisers to rethink the methods
they were using to reach an increasingly important market segment.
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Lucy
Battles With Her Co-Stars
Most
everyone loved Lucy but there were times when things got pretty heated
on the set, especially when Tallulah Bankhead, Richard Burton and
Joan Crawford appeared with the queen of comedy. After one taping,
Crawford was quoted as saying, "My God, they tell me I'm a
bitch - Lucy can outbitch me any day of the week!"
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Lucy: Reconsidered
An
episode-by-episode review of all 180 plots of the classic series (a
content analysis as the highfalutin' academics might call it), in
the end presents a very different image of this beloved series and
a surprising reassessment of a central character we all thought we
knew so well.
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Della
Reese' Tough TV Career
When
ABC decided to continue with 8 Simple Rules after star John
Ritter's sudden death a decade ago they did so knowing it was a risky
strategy. But there was one star, Della Reese, who had been through
that very situation - twice!
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For The Love of (Bazooka) Joe!
I always loved the Bazooka Joe characters. I was a little horrified some years ago--was it in the 1990s?--when I unwrapped a piece and the cartoons had CHANGED. Gone were the familiar designs, replaced by some odd nouveau version of the Gang. Why, I thought, if Bazooka had finally gone to the fun extent of creating some new adventures, had they not hired an artist who could draw in the classic style?
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What
We Watched - 40 Years Ago
The
1973-74 season had the worst new show success ratio of any season
in television history. The three networks had only one series each
that was renewed that year (Kojak, Police Story, Six Million Dollar
Man). A glance back to a tumultuous year in television history
- the 1974-75 season.
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David
Bowie on TV
Bowie
made several but not many appearances on American TV during the 1970s,
mostly on talk and variety shows. Here are a few examples.
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Wonder Woman's Long Strange Journey to Television
It
wasn't until The Six Million Dollar Man debuted five years later
on ABC that super-persons were again accepted on television. With
that in mind,
Warner Bros. decided again to mount a Wonder Woman project in 1974.
Stanley Ralph Ross was again brought on board to pitch a completely different
approach than the 1967 pilot; his idea was to stay true to the original
character concept by placing the comic book character back into the World War II era.
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1980's
TV Wrestling - Greats and Near Greats!NOW WITH ADDED RARE VIDEO!
John Hitchcock's look back at the heart of Mid-Atlantic Wrestling - with grapplers known and unknown. Wahoo McDaniel! Ric Flair! Dusty Rhodes! Jim Cornette! Magnum TA! Buddy "Killer" Austin! Johnny Weaver! Johnny Valentine! Harley Race! Dick Murdock! Jimmy Garvin! Nikita Koloff! Have you ever heard of these guys?!?
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1980's
PUNK ROCK
In the early-eighties, young people in Los Angeles were flocking to
makeshift clubs in droves to see new, up and coming bands. Live new
music, not DJs, was what they craved. These writings provide a sketchy
look at the underground club scene in Los Angeles during the time
that groups like X, Missing Persons, The Go-Go's, The Minutemen and
Wall of Voodoo entered the public consciousness.
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