TMZ (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Filed under: TV , Beauty , 'Memba Them?! In the '60s and '70s, Lyle Waggoner became famous for his work on "The Carol Burnett Show" and later as Steve Trevor on the "Wonder Woman" TV series. Guess what he looks like now!... Permalink
Sundries (Free subscription) | 01/04/2009
I remembered a skit from a " Best of Carol Burnett " show -- Tim Conway's own inimitable take on the Paul Henreid cigarette gesture I mentioned in a post below. Minute 5:00 to 5:15. I had to watch about four of these eight minute clips to find it, and in doing so, I remembered just how much Carol and her Friends were outstandingly funny. The comic timing, Tim cutting up Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner...
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Idol Chatter (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
December 23 was the imaginary holiday, Festivus, created on that infamous "Seinfield" episode where Frank Costanza invents the annual ceremony of telling your loved ones how they have disappointed you in the previous months. Alan Sepinwall over at the Star-Ledger...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/28/2008
A Woman of Character" For me, Saturday nights growing up were always capped with the wonderful "Carol Burnett Show. " PBS' "American Masters"...
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 12/28/2008
If this is truly 1957 as stated (and I have no reason to doubt it), then this is two years before Burnett got her first major break in the Broadway musical Once Upon a Mattress, although she had done some television work beforehand. This is ten years before her immortal self-titled show would hit [...]
Jankenpon (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
In 2008, we lost many well-known individuals, including the following: January 15 - Brad Renfro, actor (Mark Shay in “The Client”) age 25 January 17 - Bobby Fischer, world class chess champion, age 64 January 18 - Lois Nettleton, actor (Evelyn in “Crossing Jordan”) age 80 January 19 - Suzanne Pleshette, actress (”Bob Newhart Show” and “Rome Adventure”), age [...]
Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
Laughter and reflection with carol burnett friday,.january.9. [2009] Saturday, January 10 [2009] Doors/Bar @.7 pm | Show @.8 pm The Paramount Theatre Purchase Tickets Online or call (866) 4GET-TIX
Media Assassin (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
I may like nothing less than any film or video where Black people teach white people how to dance, or to otherwise be cool. That said, I can kind of bear the otherwise talented Vicki Lawrence (Mama’s Family) in this clip from The Carol Burnett Show, above, because there’s just not a lot of high-quality footage [...]
SitcomsOnline.com News Blog (Free subscription) | 12/20/2008
It is Saturday, so that must mean it is time for our weekly Blog DVD Review! Today we take a look at BCI Eclipse's The Best of Password: The CBS Years. Password was of course the classic word playing game show that still lives on today in the form of Million Dollar Password hosted by Regis Philbin. But before Reege hosted, there were many other incarnations! On this set, we see the early years of
Fox News (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008
Sharon Stone, Halle Berry, and more shell out $50K each for inauguration ceremony
The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
Watch out, Broadway! Heidi and Spencer are ready to fug up the theater and your Tonys aren’t safe. According a hot scoop from blabbing insiders at Star Magazine, the attention-whoring couple are plotting a venture to the stage as their next showbiz project. “They know The Hills is winding down. So they’re looking for their next [...]
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
It certainly says something about the power of an icon and the glitter of a golden age in movie-making that “Sunset Boulevard” stands up so amazingly well as a bit of storytelling, in spite of it’s deranged silent-movie star character being parodied mercilessly by everyone from Carol Burnett on down. And curious it appears [...]
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/13/2008
Hugh Jackman isn't the first actor - or the first Australian (Paul Hogan was a co-host in 1987) - to host the Academy Awards. Here's a look at Oscar hosts through the years since the ceremony was first televised in 1953:
WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH? (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
The minds behind “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!” walk a tightrope between fidelity to a beloved text and keeping adults upright in their seats. And they don’t step so much as a toe out of place. The animated feature, out this week on DVD, takes the sturdy Seuss source material and injects it with the modern [...]
