A good thing about the reruns, albeit such “chopped up” entities, is their movement through time.
Today starting at 5 P.M. Eastern Time on MeTV, that will be readily apparent as both the series finale and series premiere of “Adam -12” will be shown in that order.
“Adam-12” starred Martin Milner, (his turn in “Sweet Smell of Success was superb) and Kent McCord. In o the last episode before the two part finale of “12,”, the actress Jo Ann Phlug played police officer “Dana Hall.”
A male Dana Hall, a fine player, picked up a title with a great ’94 Niners team, to date their last such achievement.
“Macbitches,” (at the Chain Theatre, 112 West 36th Street, through September 10th) written by Sophie McIntosh and directed by Ella Jane New, truly dazzles with humor and pathos, opening our awareness about envy/jealousy, and ambition’s exponential presence in fields of entertainment, in this case, college theatre.
The cast is excellent, Caroline Orlando, Laura Clare Bronne, Marie Dinolan, Morgan Lui, and Natasja Naarendorp bringing the myriad, tense, revealing emotions to life.
I was highly entertained and more important, moved into further reality and awareness of these times, the often “not what, but who you know” aspect that haunted and continues to haunt.
“Macbitches” is an eye opening, informative, well performed production.
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Today a quick post revealing a “names coincidence” involving three child actors.
Christopher Olsen played the Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day character’s (Ms. Day sang her great song “Que Serra” twice to and strategically for Olsen’s “Hank” in the film) son in the Alfred Hitchcock directed “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”
Christopher Knight played “Peter Brady” on the famed show, “The Brady Bunch.”
Susan Olsen, Christopher Knight’s blended family’s sister on “The Bunch” is Christopher Olsen’s much younger sister (15 years), played “Cindy Brady.”
You get rewarded for my coincidences indulgence by clicking below to view Doris singing Que Sera Sera in the film “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” Mr. Olsen (“Mrs.” did coffee ads) is pictured.
The WNBA playoffs with a new format open tonight with two games as the defending champion Chicago Sky face the (16-20) New York Liberty (I read “it” wrong and the Liberty snuck in winning their last 3 tilts) followed by the Las Vegas Aces meeting the (15-21) Phoenix Mercury.
Both the Sky and Aces headed their conferences with (26-10) records.
Tomorrow night the (25-11) Connecticut Sun face the (18-18) Dallas Wings while the Seattle Storm get home advantage vs the also (22-14) Washington Mystics.
The higher seeded team in all 4 series gets the first 2, perhaps only 2 at home in the best of 3 first round series, however, somewhat incredibly a decisive game 3, if necessary would be played in the lower seed’s building. Ouch!
This year in which the Butler (Austin) did it, portraying Elvis so well in the movie “Elvis,” today is the exact 45 year anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on Tuesday August 16, 1977.
Mr. Presley aka “The King,” was so great for so long a period of time, another record breaker, basketball’s Wilt Chamberlain, who also died on a Tuesday, commented that those criticizing, largely out of fear, his “outrageous” style in the 1950’s, were standing on line to buy tickets to see Elvis perform in Las Vegas and other places in the 1970’s.
Time marches on inexorably, so many greats gone, today remembering as great a performer as ever was, while wondering where 45 years disappeared.
The “King” may be dead, but oh how long he has and will live.
Click below to view Elvis sing “Jailhouse Rock” from the 1957 movie of the same name.
Elvis Presley. Jailhouse Rock.( From the movie Jailhouse Rock.1957.)
Tonight as is almost always the case the Sunday night game, inaugurated by ESPN in 1990 matches the Yankees and Red Sox.
I choose to recall a Sunday night game when they were so rare and the great hitter Rico Carty.
Rico Carty was one of the greatest hitters I ever saw play.
If there was a hitter’s Hall of Fame, Rico Carty would be a serious candidate.
Once in a July 4th, Sunday night game, in 1976, I believe 14 years before regularly scheduled such games, Carty homered to get the Indians within a run of the Yankees, who held on to win the game and eventually the American League Pennant.
Yankees’ broadcaster praised Carty after the home run. “Oh can he hit!” Mr. Rizzuto remarked.
That was high praise from a baseball great. It also was well deserved as Rico Carty could really hit.
Rico Carty, pictured above.
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It is not the acclaim and prizes, specifically The Pulitzer, that I remember and admire most about writer David McCullough, (hopefully his love of and emphasis on history will inspire more of the same), who died days back, at age 89.
“They,” unfortunately do not make too many, if any David McCullough types these days. He loved history and brought it to life in such books as biographies of the second U.S. President, John Adams and the 33rd, Harry S Truman. (The S did not stand for anything).
Mr. McCullough narrated in the movie about the famed horse, Seabiscuit and as with James Earl Jones and very few others, one can see paying just to hear David McCullough read the phone book. (I believe Jones got involved with similar “placement”).
Let’s face it my love of history mainly concerned sports but at least I had that. These kids today …..
Also and I remember this best, McCullough commented on the constant placing of the word “like” (I am guilty of it also and I do NOT LIKE it) in modern language.
Paraphrasing Mr. McCullough talked of President Kennedy’s famed inaugural speech being “It’s not LIKE what your country can do for you, but LIKE what you can LIKE do for your country.”
Let’s try to upgrade and appreciate those like (I hesitate to use that “L” word) David McCullough!!
The renowned author, David McCullough, pictured above.
“History, really, is an extension of life,” McCullough wrote. “It enlarges and intensifies the experience of being alive, like poetry and art or music.”
Before I saw the radiant, outside beauty of the great performer, Olivia Newton-John, who died far too early at age 73 amidst this “heat of hell summer,” days back, I was aware of and admired her songs a great deal.
Seeing her, (somewhere a small Newsweek photo I cut out remains) evoked, say running back, Marcus Allen “going over the top!”
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and looks are so over valued in this life, yet I note Olivia Newton-John was beautiful.
More important, she was a gifted performer with incredible presence and charm. She did so much good in her life.
3 Letters and confluence in 1981: MTV began, I bought my first VCR and ONJ (Olivia’s and other videos played). I recorded. It is/was both good and bad to do so.
Luckily, we are blessed that recordings preserve the performances of greats such as Olivia Newton-John.
One is shown below. It probably will be taken down. Certainly, it as with life, will come to an end.
Thank you Olivia Newton-John, whom I saw perform brilliantly later in her great career, for all the good that you did while on this planet.
Click below to see Olivia perform “Make A Move On Me.”
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UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman looks to continue his run of dominance in the 170-pound division when he defends his title against Leon Edwards in the main event of UFC 278.
Usman and Edwards both bring lengthy winning streaks to their clash. Usman has won 19 straight bouts, including five successful title defenses since capturing the belt in March 2019. Edwards is on a nine-fight winning streak. His most recent loss came against Usman when the two fought in December 2015.
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All three of the past weekend’s inter-league series matched teams/franchises with multiple World Series clashes.
The Cardinals and Yankees have met in 5 World Series, the former winning in 1926, 1942 and 1964 and the latter triumphing in 1928 and 1943.
Pittsburgh (Pirates) won both W.S. meetings vs Baltimore (Orioles), each a 7 game win, the Roberto Clemente/Steve Blass brilliance led win in ’71 and Willie Stargell’s 2RHR highlighting the ’79 win.
When the Athletics were in Philadelphia and the Giants played in New York, the Athletics won World Series vs the Giants in 1911 and 1913. The Giants led by Christy Mathewson’s incredible 3 of 3 games/shutouts won vs the A’s in 1905.
In the 1989 World Series, marred by an earthquake before game 3, the Athletics won a 3rd straight vs the Giants–the A’s as Oakland and the Giants as San Francisco–sweeping S.F. in 4 straight games.
George “Whitey”Kurowski, pictured above hit a big home run for the Cards in the clinching 5th game win in the ’42 World Series.
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