And speaking of television, and the good old days when Hollywood was patriotic and made great movies, I happened to catch the 1970 classic Kelly's Heroes yesterday. Aside from the fact that the movie features Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Caroll O'Connor, Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod, Jeff Morris and Don Rickles all in the same movie, it's got lots of machine guns and tanks--tanks...
There are comedians that I think are not funny. Yet because of certain roles or events, they are forever deemed funny. For example I don't think Eddie Murphy is funny. I think he's a good actor, and I've enjoyed his movies, but I don't find him really funny. His stand up special was pretty funny about 20 years ago, but what have you done for me lately? I do not think Robin Williams is funny. I did...
Known as “the Queen of Mean,” Lisa Lampanelli only called me an idiot once during a recent email interview. Who are her comedy role models? “My idols are obviously Don Rickles and Howard Stern,” she explains “But the person who has inspired me most is Kathie Lee Gifford. She...
Comedienne Kathy Griffin has moved from the infamous “D-List” of celebrity culture to at least the “B-List” over the last few years, due in no small part to the rabid devotion of her beloved “gays”. The winner of two Emmy Awards for her Bravo reality series Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List , she has been omnipresent recently with a new concert special ( Kathy...
Don Rickles doesn't care where you sit — he just wants you to show up for his show at Snoqualmie Casino, which celebrates its first anniversary Nov. 5.
The Weekly Standard via Paste : If you needed more evidence, the release this month of Bob Dylan’s Christmas album, Christmas in the Heart, should close the case. Dylan fans are like Baby Huey dolls, those inflatable figures with the big red nose and the rounded bottom, weighted so that when you punch them—punch hard, punch with all your might—they bounce right back, grinning the...
Back in '92, I was listening to the debut album from House of Pain. Snicker if you will, but I dug that album, and I still spin it now and then. One of the songs I enjoyed was "Put on Your Shit Kickers" and it included this folksy verse that stuck in my head. Here's that part of "Put on Your Shit Kickers". Every time I go to town People start kickin' my dog around It makes no difference...
(S03E05) - "Once upon a time's gotta count for something." - Zloz to Hank Ah, the old friend from back home trick. It's been done so many times before in television. Remember when Rob's old Army buddy came to town in that one episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show or that one time when Don Rickles met up with his old pal Maxwell Smart on Get Smart ? Those were some good times. Imagine those episodes...
Aliens: The Ride - Richard Band and James Horner... Halloween... Halloween 2009, Part THIRTEEN!!!!!!! @ MY(P)WHAE retrospace presents Disco Phantasm and Spreading the Love for the Paul Lynde Halloween Special (Part One) (Part Two) Paul Lynde Halloween Special OST @ Dartman's World of Wonder Classic Television Showbiz The Paul Lynde Halloween Special with guests Betty White, Florence Henderson, Billy...
Elaine Raines writes on her blog, Tales from the Morgue, that comedian Gary Shandling was once a stamp collector. According to Elaine, "But, just as some kids were collecting baseball cards, Shandling was collecting the routines of his favorite comedians, including George Carlin, Don Rickles, Joey Bishop and Shecky Green." Elaine says while Shandling was growing up in Arizona he was also...
The other night, David Letterman had Don Rickles on as a guest. It was an odd appearance, especially when the topic was Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra. In one segment, Rickles talked about how Frank was his hero...someone he very much...
Last week, Michael Riedel warned us of the ear-damaging potential of Bye Bye Birdie 's singing cast. It's a shame that poor Ben Brantley didn't listen. In the Times ' hilarious review this morning, Brantley mocks the poor harmonizing ability of Bill Irwin, and notes that the vocal work of stars John Stamos and Gina Gershon tends "to slide distractingly off key ... enough to make you want to hit...
Filed under: Video , Celebrities , Reality-Free There are very few recurring television moments that instantly grab my undivided attention: seeing an undead Billy Mays still pitching Oxy-Clean, Twilight Zone episodes that pwn Nazis, late night Skinemax. Now you can add Don Rickles to that list. He's become a staple of late night during the early Tonight Show because he's engaging, colorful and damn...
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