Watched an Esther Williams (swimming star of the 40s-50s) doc, and found out that Jeff Chandler, an ultra-macho looking & acting actor of the era, was a cross dresser. Sort of the last guy you would suspect.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Except for Esther, who immediately cut off their relationship.
Jimmie Walker on the Letterman/Leno war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcStxzHaliM
Married With Children was originally written to be about a black family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x116L7JvynI&t=231s
I had no idea JW was such a player.
shareMe either. The whole interview is great. His proudest achievement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt83Rs5uOc4
Wow, what a find! I normally eschew Hollywood gossip, but both stories were amazing! Of course it involved Letterman, my paisan'...
The closing line on the first about Dave really rang true, especially if the normally bulletproof Norm MacDonald's touching and heartfelt farewell tears made him just pat Norm on the back. Fascinating that he and Leno were best friends before that evil woman made the Today Show decision, though Jay went along.
And the chef's kiss moment proving Jimmie was indeed a player was the casual use of "macher!"
An out-of-control bad boy from my hometown who hated everyone not Norwegian and even beat up a wounded Ukrainian on crutches in his late teens just for not being Norwegian, is now a doctor. I wonder if he sometimes looks at a scar he created. I knew someone with his name was a doctor in my hometown, but the name is widespread so I just assumed it had to be someone else.
turned out that while he did some prison time in his early 20s he was able to do some medical education there and continued after coming out. He is a private doctor though. I think there is some law preventing people with violent felonies from treating children, so he can not work anywhere or have any patient. But glad he turned it around.
That is interesting. Probably in the US, his felonies would have kept him out of medical school, perhaps even nursing school.
Maybe he's one of those 'prosocial' sociopaths/psychopaths.
Frank's Zappa's wife, Moon & Dweezel's mom, left most of the Zappa estate & management to the other couple of kids.
Here's what she said about her mom :
"It's complicated enough to be grieving the loss of a mean mom," Moon Zappa told the Los Angeles Times in 2016, "and then to find out she was meaner than I could have possibly comprehended ... It's comical, the level of betrayal.
Some fans make a couple movies based on the work of HP Lovecraft and they look pretty cool.
https://www.hplhs.org/mpcoc.php
https://www.hplhs.org/mptwid.php
Love the art deco style, nod to German Expressionism. These were well constructed.
share2:23 mark
I was surprised to hear Ritchie Blackmore say
"One of these days when we're playing on the road, I'm going to attack Ian Gillan in the back alley. He's bigger than me, and he's probably a better fighter, so I'm gonna do it with a few friends of mine — probably Swedish. We'll beat him up. But he won't know it's me."
https://youtu.be/sL9zwX5LzxQ?t=143