The Guardian newspaper reported today that in addition to recent revelations about government phone taps, email and internet surveillance to uncover terrorist threats, it is also true that a reclusive billionaire and a lapsed CIA agent are working tirelessly in New York to save the lives of innocent and generally photogenic people who are . . . → Read More: With Person of Interest, J.J. Abrams Predicted the Future
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By the by, former BUFFY co-star (and Tim Duncan’s teammate at Wake Forest, before that!) Marc Blucas’ mondo-gorgeous wife, Ryan Haddon, used to be married to Christian Slater, and I have an issue of the ritzy TOWN AND COUNTRY magazine in which there is a “mansion porn” article spotlighting their (then seemingly) idyllic . . . → Read More: Marc Blucas! Plus: Ryan & Dayle Haddon! By Tom Kipp From: Marc Marshall To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Davie Allan Hi Tom! Did I forward this to you already? My new musical friend at Noblis I told you about, Frank Lawrence, turned me on to Davie Allan recently. Thanks Marc! What a fabulous summary of both . . . → Read More: “Fuzztone Biker Rock” from Davie Allan and Mike Curb, two ol’ pals from Grant High School in Van Nuys, CA! Plus: The Mike Curb Congregation & MGM’s “Golden Archive Series”! By Tom Kipp and Marc Marshall
Tim Finn The old phrase, “… and the plot thickens,” isn’t quite adequate to describe the episode-by-episode tension-building of Jane Campion’s new mystery miniseries, Top Of The Lake. The 7-parter, now airing on the Sundance Channel, follows a police detective (Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss) who returns to her rugged hometown and finds herself leading . . . → Read More: New Zealand Icon Tim Finn Reflects Upon Top Of The Lake, By Steve Stav I’ve recently moved to Everett, WA, but I find myself in Sweden again for a couple of weeks and just in time to be caught up in the voting for Sweden’s Eurovision candidate. A quick Wikipedia search will tell you that Eurovision has gone on since 1958 and launched careers for among others ABBA, . . . → Read More: What Every American Needs to Know About Eurovision, By Linda Newman Andersson http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/17/the-co-author-of-hubris-on-torture-secrets-and-what-we-still-dont-know/ – a documentary special hosted by Rachel Maddow tonight, 9 p.m. ET on MSNBC. The news media are as much to blame as the Bush administration — read the article we published on November 19, 2001 in which Enver Masud wrote: In an October 1999 interview, former United Nations Special Commission chief inspector . . . → Read More: ‘Hubris: The Selling of the Iraq War’ You probably have heard by now that Jim Nabors got married in Seattle! – Jim Demetre Gomer Pyle, Television’s Faux Elvis, On a Date With the Colonel’s Daughter, by Jim Demetre, Celebrity Guest Blogger The soundtrack for the upcoming motion picture, A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III will feature an original score by Liam Hayes, a songwriter who has made music under the name Plush since the early 90’s. The soundtrack is available February 5th for digital download and March 19th on CD and . . . → Read More: Charlie Sheen Sings Brazilian Classic, Águas de Março http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJbi4mK35k I’ve been outta the loop re: many of my favorite magazines for a spell, especially those I normally buy at the newsstand. So I missed several iterations of Greil Marcus’ “Real Life Rock Top Ten” (A MONTHLY COLUMN OF EVERYDAY CULTURE AND FOUND OBJECTS) in THE BELIEVER, which ranks 10 . . . → Read More: “We just had ourselves a little Journey moment…”! By Tom Kipp “Everything I touch gets ruined.” Recently I experienced my 44th straight viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas… yes, I have the DVD, but there’s nothing like recreating the delayed gratification of one’s youth by watching it on broadcast TV. (Sans the Dolly Madison commercials, sadly.) A Charlie Brown Christmas, to me, is like spending . . . → Read More: A Charlie Brown Christmas: It Validates, Soothes, Relieves… By Steve Stav This Yahoo TV article features other recent footage in which Angus T. Jones advises viewers to stop watching “Two and a Half Men,” a show which he describes as “filth.” The ladies, Raj and Wolowizard prove themselves to be fine dancers in this clip. I wanted to see Jim “Sheldon” Parsons dance but he and Johnny “Leonard” Galecki remain in the background. BTW Kunal “Raj” Nayyar has a Portland connection in that he started his acting career at Portland State University: Forty years later, both Kolchak: The Night Stalker and its unforgettable intro have lost little of their “cool factor.” One of the most criminally cut-short series in TV history, the show lives on as a cult favorite… especially during October cable scare-a-thons. There were so many aspects about that show that made a . . . → Read More: Kolchak: The Night Stalker – One of the Most Criminally Cut Short Series in TV History, By Steve Stav That’s the pre-Partridge Family Hal Blaine [playing drums in the above clip]! I have no specific memory of playing Peggy Lipton’s album, which actually came out on Ode in 1968, shortly after MOD SQUAD took the country by storm, so I’ll have to dig it out sometime. . . . → Read More: Peggy Lipton’s 1968 Eponymous Album, By Tom Kipp
Q: Re: the characters on THE MOD SQUAD, were they “Mods” in the scooter-riding, amphetamine-scarfing, madly-dancing, hopeless fashion victim, Pete Townshend-ian sense of the word?
A: Well, virtually no one in The States knew a thing about British Mod until after The Who released QUADROPHENIA (in 1973, coincidentally the same year THE . . . → Read More: THE MOD SQUAD, were they “Mods” in the scooter-riding, amphetamine-scarfing, madly-dancing, hopeless fashion victim, Pete Townshend-ian sense of the word? By Tom Kipp
Gilda Radner as Candy Slice with Paul Schaffer on keys. I remember laughing my head off when this first came out in the late seventies. I was in high school and knew little to nothing about Patti Smith at that time. I don’t think I’ve ever watched any Patti Smith vids from that era . . . → Read More: Gilda Radner as Candy Slice, By Holly Homan |
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