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Studs Terkel
I had heard of "Stud's Place" before but had never seen it nor knew they had an episode on the net. For you Stud's fans who may have missed it...and also those who saw it live and want to be reminded of how effing old you are...haha, sorry....
Lots better than cable....the first segment has a little sound trouble but it gets better...
Imagine Stud's Place as Cheers---without alcohol (for most of its run), without a laugh track and without a script (the cast improvised on an outline; there was no written dialogue). The show, during most of its brief life, was set in a joint one step up from a greasy spoon. Studs Terkel was the proprietor. Beverly Younger was the waitress. The remaining characters were clientele.
Given the absence of a written script---which meant that there was no way to predict the order in which actors would speak or where they would move on the set---Stud's Place must have been a challenge to direct. From the point of view of those in the control room, it was more like dealing with a sporting event than a dramatic show.
And the improvisational nature of the show made it, in a way, a dramatic equivalent of jazz (perhaps it was no coincidence that two of the regulars on Stud's Place, Chet Roble and Win Stracke, were accomplished musicians.)
Jazz has often been difficult to sell commercially. Stud's Place was impossible to sell to sponsors, at least while the show was produced in the Merchandise Mart studios.
Stud's Place first aired during November and December of 1949 as a segment of a larger variety show called Saturday Night Square. Its original setting was a tavern. The show returned in April of 1950---free-standing and set in a restaurant---and ran through the following August.
In 1951, Stud's Place returned to the air on ABC (through the Civic Theater facilities of WENR-TV. ABC offered the show on a co-op basis---which meant that, in the absence of a national sponsor, affiliates could sell the commercial spots locally (in Chicago the sponsor was Manor House coffee). Alas, this final incarnation of Stud's Place was short-lived.
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Last Night
Still sunny & breezy.
We currently have a feral cat from down at the shore in a pen on the back porch. She'd torn a pad on her right front paw & since she wasn't using that paw, her claws grew into the pad, too.
One of the local vets volunteered his time & expertise to fix her up, and we're grateful.
Her name is 'Sweetheart,' and if all goes well, she'll be back 'home' by the end of the week.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then jumps on the Jesus bandwagon with the movie 'Jesus'.
NBC begins the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a FRESH 'Law & Order', followed by a
FRESH 'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'America's So-Called Funniest Videos', followed by a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a
FRESH 'Alias', followed by a FRESH 'The Practice'.
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a RERUN 'Charmed', then a FRESH
'High School Reunion'.
Faux has a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a
RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', a 2-hour 'Biography' (Oprah Winfrey), and another 'Biography' (Dr. Phil McGraw).
AMC offers the movie 'Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan', followed by the movie 'D.O.A.', then the movie 'Prizzi's Honor'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 3;
[7pm] 'Faking It' - Emergency Control Operator to Live TV Studio Director;
[8pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 10;
[8:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Justin Lewis: Leominster;
[9pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Claire;
[9:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Kingswinford;
[10pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 3;
[11pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 10;
[11:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Justin Lewis: Leominster;
[12am] 'What Not to Wear' - Claire;
[12:30am] 'Ground Force' - Kingswinford;
[1am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 3;
[1:40am] 'The Telly' - Quarter 1 2004;
[2am] 'Faking It' - Emergency Control Operator to Live TV Studio Director;
[3am] 'What Not to Wear' - Claire;
[3:30am] 'Ground Force' - Kingswinford;
[4am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 3;
[4:40am] 'The Telly' - Quarter 1 2004;
[5am] 'House Doctor' - Episode 10;
[5:30am] 'The Life Laundry' - Justin Lewis: Leominster;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Significant Others', another 'Significant Others', follwoed by 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Naomi Watts), and the movie 'The Doors'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents' (Wanda Sykes), 'Comedy Central Presents' (Nick Swardson), the movie 'Dazed & Confused', 'Chappelle's Show', and another 'Chappelle's Show'.
HBO has a FRESH 'Sopranos'.
History has 'UFOs', 'Nostradamus: 500 Years Later', 'Mail Call', and 'Tactical To Practical'.
IFC -
[2PM] 'Unzipped' (1995);
[3:15PM] 'The Big One' (1997);
[5PM] Short: 'Mocking The Cosmos' (1996);
[5:30PM] 'At The Angelika 82' (2003);
[6PM] 'Johnny Stecchino' (1991);
[7:45PM] 'IFC In Theaters';
[8PM] 'The Anniversary Party' (2001);
[10PM] 'Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas' (1998);
[12AM] 'The Anniversary Party' (2001);
[2AM] 'Intimate Relations' (1996);
[4AM] 'Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas' (1998). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'The Arrival', followed by the movie 'The Second Arrival'.
Sundance -
[2:05PM] 'holiday on the moon' (Short);
[2:30PM] 'The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam' (Documentary);
[4PM] 'Tanner '88: Bagels With Bruce' (Short);
[4:30PM] 'Tanner '88: Child's Play' (Short);
[5PM] 'Tanner '88: The Great Escape' (Short);
[5:30PM] 'Tanner '88: The Girlfriend Factor' (Short);
[6PM] 'Enigma' (Feature);
[8PM] 'Shorts Program 106' (Short);
[9PM] 'Mostly Martha' (Feature);
[11PM] 'The Snapper' (Feature);
[12:35AM] 'Switchblade Sisters' (Feature);
[2:05AM] 'Black Picket Fence' (Documentary);
[3:40AM] 'Ridicule' (Feature);
[5:25AM] 'Mostly Martha' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'Blossoms In The Dust' (1941);
[8am] 'Show Boat' (1951);
[10am] 'You Were Never Lovelier' (1942);
[12pm] 'The Little Foxes' (1941);
[2pm] 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (1936);
[4pm] 'Field of Dreams' (1989);
[6pm] 'On The Waterfront' (1954);
[8pm] 'Comanche Station' (1960);
[9pm] 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' (1976);
[12am] 'Intolerance' (1916) SILENT ;
[3am] 'Tora! Tora! Tora!' (1970);
[5:30am] Festival of Shorts #30 (2000). (ALL TIMES EST)
Mr. McFeely, played by David Newell, left, and Neighbor Aber, played by Chuck Aber, right, reprise their roles from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood onstage in front of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra during The Music of Fred Rogers concert gala at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, Saturday, March, 27, 2004. Newell and Aber were among a group of former cast members and celebrities paying tribute to Fred Rogers music.
Photo by Jason Cohn
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New Animated Series
Siegfried & Roy
Almost six months after a white tiger mauled illusionist Roy Horn of "Siegfried & Roy," forcing the long-running stage show to close, the two say they will soon be back in the entertainment business.
The duo will promote the NBC animated series, "Father of the Pride," about a family of white lions who work as performers in their show, officials said.
"It's the beginning of a new era for Siegfried & Roy," said Bernie Yuman, manager for Horn and Siegfried Fischbacher, whose Las Vegas show made them entertainment icons.
Siegfried & Roy
Bengal Tiger, Ratu kisses her cub in a cage at Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Wednesday, March, 24, 2004. Ratu gave birth to three cubs on Monday, two of the them survived.
Photo by Achmad Ibrahim
Joins Reno Bridge Tourney
Bill Gates
Bill Gates may be the nation's richest man, but he admits no amount of money is likely to make him a professional bridge player. Gates, who joined about 5,000 other card players Saturday at a national bridge championship in Reno, concedes his card-playing skills are no match for those of professionals.
"I wish I had more time for bridge. I'd be better," Gates told reporters at the Contract Bridge League's North American Championship.
Gates and his frequent partner, San Francisco consultant Sharon Osberg, were expected to continue playing into Sunday.
Bill Gates
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Reaches Milestone
'Mousetrap'
Agatha Christie's seemingly immortal play "The Mousetrap" passed yet another milestone, clocking 30 consecutive years in the same London theater.
"It has to be the defining production in British theater history," said Richard Attenborough, who joined some of the other original stars Friday to celebrate the play's three-decade run at the St. Martin's Theatre.
Attenborough opened in the play at the Ambassadors Theatre on Nov. 25, 1952, in a cast that included his wife, Sheila Sim.
On March 25, 1974, the play moved next door to the slightly larger St. Martin's Theatre, where it has run ever since.
'Mousetrap'
A man performs during the inaugural parade of the IX Iberoamerican Theater Festival in Bogotá, March 27, 2004. 45 worldwide theater companies will present their works from March 26 to April 11.
Photo by Eliana Aponte
Cancelled Flight on 'Psychic' Bomb Tip
American Airlines
A self-described psychic's tip that a bomb might be on a plane prompted a search with bomb-sniffing dogs that turned up nothing suspicious, but forced the cancelation of the flight.
American Airlines Flight 1304 at Southwest Florida International Airport was canceled Friday because some crew members had exceeded their work hours by the time the search was finished, officials said.
The purported psychic's call was "unusual," conceded Doug Perkins, local administrator for the federal Transportation Security Administration director.
TSA officials wouldn't say who the call came from or who received it.
American Airlines
Guess we know where Miss Cleo is...
Last month, American Airlines had a pilot that wanted to convert everyone, and this month they're listening to a 'psychic'?
What's next? Rune-casters & tarot-readers on the tarmac?
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
'You're Fired' Banner Draws Ire
The Donald
A giant "You're Fired" sign on the Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan has earned Donald Trump's development firm four summonses from the city.
The firm does not have a permit and was asked on four occasions to remove the 13-foot tall, 25-foot wide banner that promotes the hit reality television show "The Apprentice," the New York Post first reported Friday.
Trump told The Daily News that the Fifth Avenue skyscraper's sign was a tourist attraction and "New York should appreciate it instead of fighting it."
The Donald
Young people dance during the Love Parade in Mexico City, Saturday, March 27, 2004. With tattoos, colored hair, skimpy clothes and pierced everything, techno fans from around the globe gathered today for the Love Parade, renowned as the world's biggest street party.
Photo by Eduardo Verdugo
Bob Dylan Tribute Album
Jamaican Musicians
Jamaican musicians have recorded a tribute album to Bob Dylan with reggae covers of some of the singer's most well-known songs, the album's distributor said Friday.
"Is It Rolling, Bob" includes 16 songs recorded by veteran performers such as Beres Hammond and new-wave roots groups like Sizzla, said Gary Himelfarb, head of Washington D.C.-based RAS Records.
Although the album will not be released in the United States and Europe until June, three songs are playing already in Jamaica: "Subterranean Blues" by Sizzla, "Knocking On Heaven's Door" by Luciano and "Just Like a Woman" by Hammond.
Jamaican Musicians
Devotees offer flowers to Tapawsiary Bapu, 37, an Indian Hindu holy man who has buried himself neck down in the ground for meditation for 10 days at Pathapur, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Ahmadabad, Friday, March 26, 2004. Bapu began his meditation on March 20 and will emerge from the hole on March 29.
Photo by Pankaj Nangia
Gets Behind Water
George Jones
Country icon George Jones is introducing his own brand of bottled drinking water, George Jones' White Lightning Tennessee Spring Water.
The product is named after Jones' 1959 No. 1 hit "White Lightning."
The water is the latest entry in Jones' line of food products, which includes sausages, biscuits and sauces branded with the artist's name. The products are available in more than 5,000 U.S. grocery stores.
George Jones
Theme Parks Boost Admission Prices
Disney
Beginning Sunday, Disneyland and California Adventure will increase the admission price to $49.75 for guests over 10 years old — a jump of $2.75, or nearly 6 percent, Disneyland Resort announced Friday.
In Florida, Walt Disney World also is raising its admission prices $2.75 on Sunday, from $52 to $54.75.
Disneyland last raised prices from $45 to $47 in 2002.
Disney
Disney charges kids 10 & older the adult ticket price. So, if my little family of 3 goes, that's $149.25 (not including parking) just to get in the front gate.
And then there are the $6 beverages...Happiest place on earth, my ass. More like the most over-priced, over-rated, and under-staffed.
Guess Eisner needs another bonus - they've already cut everything to the bone, so the only option is to gouge the visiting hordes, again.
Boo. Hiss.
In Memory
Jan Berry
Jan Berry, a member of the duo Jan & Dean that had the 1960s surf-music hits "Deadman's Curve" and "Little Old Lady from Pasadena," has died. He was 62.
Berry had a seizure and stopped breathing Friday at his home. He was pronounced dead that evening at a hospital, said his wife, Gertie Berry.
He had been in poor health recently from the lingering effects of brain damage from a 1966 car crash.
Jan & Dean had a string of hits and 10 gold records in the 1960s with their tales of Southern California. Among them were 1964's "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena," about a hotrod racing grandma, and "Surf City," with its lines about taking the station wagon to a place where there are "two girls for every boy."
With Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, William Jan Berry co-wrote the lyrics for "Surf City" and "Deadman's Curve," which featured the driving guitar licks and falsetto crooning of the wildly popular surf music.
Berry's hit-making career with high school friend Dean Torrence was cut short in 1966 when Berry's speeding Corvette hit a parked truck and he suffered severe brain damage that left him partially paralyzed and unable to talk.
His recovery was slow, but eventually he was able to resume singing and writing songs.
In addition to his wife, Berry is survived by his parents, William and Clara Berry of Camarillo; three brothers and three sisters.
Jan Berry
A mountain gorilla is seen watching tourists in Rwanda's northern Virunga range of volcanoes in this picture released by the Rwandan Tourism Office March 27, 2004.
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