“In New York we have rats the size of chihuahuas”
More Rescue 911. Old, but still very topical:
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Richard Burton: writer, Welshman
Actor and world celebrity, twice husband of Liz Taylor, Richard Burton was also a prolific diarist. His diaries were published this past fall, and I recently got the book out of the library. It makes for interesting intermittent (or intermittently … Continue reading →
Sisters of the surgeon’s knife: entering the uncanny valley
Last night I came across a TV reality show that held a certain ghastly fascination and sucked me into watching it for a while. I won’t reveal which one it was (too ashamed of myself), but let’s just say it … Continue reading →
“I didn’t like the idea of being a dead hero”
More Rescue 911:
Continue reading →“I missed my mommy…My hands were all wrinkly…they weren’t like my human hands.”
More from one of my favorite old TV shows, “Rescue 911”:
Continue reading →Separated a couple of years after birth
Triplets. Julia Sweeney: Elizabeth McGovern: Kathy Bates:
Continue reading →“What are you going to do? You gonna stand there and watch it go by?”
More from the old Rescue 911, one of my favorite TV shows of all time:
Continue reading →Big Brother CNN
I was at a doctor’s office today and had to sit in the waiting room for a few minutes, listening to the blah-blah-blah noise pollution of CNN. They were crowing about how terrible Romney is and how great Obama’s been … Continue reading →
So, is it really going to be…
…Clint Eastwood tonight? Talk about tough acts to follow! But as Roger Simon says: Has Mitt Romney been upstaged on his big night? Well, sure, but so what? Romney seems almost an afterthought, the guy behind the scenes who helped … Continue reading →
And now for something completely different
In a conversation the other day, I brought up this memorably creepy episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which featured the great Peter Lorre and the great Steve McQueen in a Roald Dahl story. No one there remembered it, although they … Continue reading →
Two, two…two things in one
In another comment thread, I wrote: In order for the Court to have standing to hear the suit””because if it were a tax, it could not be heard until the “tax” kicks in, which I believe wouldn’t be till 2014””the … Continue reading →
Flying the friendly skies
I’ve watched the TLC show “On the Fly” once or twice (only while double-tasking, so please don’t mock me too much). According to TLC, it “gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the modern air travel experience, sharing the large-scale operations … Continue reading →