BW Manilowe

Marcia's got a fifth crime novel that's either just out or about to come out. Unfortunately, I've forgotten the name of it. But she's been plugging it on at least some of her recent TV appearances tied to the resurgence of interest in the OJ trial because of the ACSFX dramatization based on it.

Duff is actually a guy, Duff Goldman. He's another Food Network personality. FN's long-running show Ace of Cakes was about his original Baltimore bakery, Charm City Cakes, which is known for baking "all-occasion" type cakes, but they're the kinds of cakes that are modeled on people, places, & things which are meaningful to the customers who order them &/or the intended recipients of the cakes (from the show I remember a Wrigley Field cake, cakes based on Star Wars, Star Trek & various characters & props associated with those franchises, & a cake made to look like a Vera Bradley tote bag belonging to the intended recipient, among others). He also owns a second bakery, in LA, Charm City Cakes West & its companion shop, Duff's Cakemix, which I think is a place where you can have cake-making parties. Here's his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_Goldman

It's a bit belated, but I just looked (while looking for something else). The INSP channel on cable/satellite is currently airing The Waltons weekdays at 3PM, 4PM, & 7PM Eastern/2PM, 3PM & 6PM Central time. So far, it doesn't appear they've scheduled any sort of tribute to Earl Hamner, Jr. And, celebrity death #5 for the day... "Late Blooming" actor Earl Schuman, who played the father of Lloyd Bridges' character in the Seinfeld episode The English Patient (where Seinfeld gets involved with a competitive father, son, & grandson), dies at age 100. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/earl-schuman-dead-seinfeld-actor-879148

And 2 more, perhaps lesser-known, celebrity deaths: Actress Shannon Bolin Kaye, star of Damn Yankees, dead at age 99. http://variety.com/2016/film/people-news/shannon-bolin-kaye-dead-dies-star-of-damn-yankees-1201741242/ And, actress Margaret Blye, star of the original version of The Italian Job, dead of Cancer at age 73. http://variety.com/2016/film/people-news/actress-margaret-blye-dead-dies-1201741095/ That makes *4* notable celebrity deaths just today (or at least just announced today).

Catholic nun Mother Mary Angelica (aka Mother Angelica), Founder of EWTN--the Eternal Word Television Network--dead at 92 from complications of a stroke suffered in 2001. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/us/mother-mary-angelica-who-founded-catholic-tv-network-dies-at-92.html?referer=http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=12&rct=j&q=mother%20angelica&ved=0ahUKEwiKjLrP6-PLAhVMvoMKHeE8D54QqUMIRjAL&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F03%2F29%2Fus%2Fmother-mary-angelica-who-founded-catholic-tv-network-dies-at-92.html&usg=AFQjCNHG-jGrLnI6Wjw56uSbzK4-jSOgYA&sig2=PCPGTncyAq9rAPuaE4h0Ww

Scott is usually gone for 5 of the eps each season, yeah. I'm not sure now if he started getting written out of some eps in S3 (Fall 2012-Spring 2013) or S4 (Fall 2013-Spring 2014). But it was definitely before his daughter, Josie, was born (she was born July 9, 2014, the day after S5 filming started in Hawaii; I remember this very clearly 'cause I was keeping track of the date S5 began filming so I could hopefully watch the cast interviews from the set blessing ceremony online & 'cause I'd read somewhere that the baby was supposedly due on July 5th, which is my birthday so I was also waiting for birth news in case we ended up sharing the same birthday). At least as I remember it. I think that's as far back as the "Where was Scott/Danny this ep?" type questions began appearing. If Scott hasn't been in the full season going as far back as S3 or S4, I'd say the chances of him being in every ep in S7 are probably slim to none unless they found some way/some perk he'd be interested in & doesn't have yet to really make it worth his while to plant his butt in Hawaii more often in S7 than he has since S2. I mean, his 20 month-old daughter lives in LA with her mom/Scott's partner, for 1 thing, & I would hope he's trying to build/maintain those relationships (or at least the 1 with his daughter); his dad--with whom Scott's really close, having been raised by him after his parents split when he was a toddler, & who isn't terribly young anymore--also lives there, for another thing. Keeping in mind his mom also passed from Cancer the same week they were holding the S3 Sunset on the Beach premiere party (Scott was apparently supposed to attend, but had to be back on the Mainland for his mom's funeral), I could see where he'd feel like maybe at least time with his dad was getting more precious. Plus, there's also the fact he made it known in a number of interviews at the beginning of the show that he prefers the hustle & bustle of LA to the more laid-back Hawaiian lifestyle. I don't really have any intel on this subject as far as the pending S7 goes. But, there is this article (more like a general TV Q&A column) by the TV writer from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, from early August last year, where an explanation for why Scott was written out of certain eps in recent seasons & how many eps he was written out of, was finally given--& apparently gotten--straight from Scott's mouth when the writer ran into Scott at some pre-season (pre-H50 S5, so this was going on before then, whether it started in S3 or S4) party for CBS & all the networks CBS owns. The bit with Scott is the first Q&A in the column. I also posted it a page or so upthread, but I reposted it here as I don't know how to link back to a previous post on the forums' mobile version. http://communityvoices.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment-living/tuned-in/item/39426-tv-q-a-hawaii-five-0-pennsylvania-ems-tests-and-weather-on-local-news Basically, it appears that he's allowed to do 5 fewer eps, per season, than Alex, "so I can come home to see my family and stuff." (quote from Scott in the article). This was an agreement apparently reached at some point between/among Scott & all the "suits" connected to the show & CBS who would have to agree to such a thing, whether it's actually been written into his contract or it's merely a "gentleman's agreement" & just a verbal thing with a handshake. Another quote from Scott in the article: "They were cool about it so we just all came to that." So, it appears he has the blessings of the "suits" involved with the show to do this, whether it's actually written into his contract or was done as a verbal agreement & a handshake. As I said before/at the beginning of last season, if this season is another 25 ep season, & Scott's allowed to miss 5 eps per season, he's still in 20 eps, which is 80% of the season. I prefer to focus on that. Yes, I'd like Scott to be in all the eps each season. But if writing him out of 20% of them, or whatever, will keep him on the show, as long as possible, I'll be quite happy to take him in however many eps each season that I can get.

Has anyone besides me seen the March Madness-related commercial Martin Sheen & Bill Pullman have done, as their presidential characters, where they're talking about their tournament brackets & Martin tells Pullman he just finished his bracket for 1988 & he got that all correct & that's really how you should do your tournament brackets (do a bracket for a previous year, where you already know all the winners, instead of the current bracket where you don't already know the results). Pullman responds by saying he'll have to do that next year, & that's where it ends. It's a kinda cute ad, I think.

SOURCE: http://cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/hawaii-five-0/releases/view?id=44801

Theoretically speaking, they could still go past S7. There was no "this is the show's final season" caveat attached to the renewal announcement. If a decision like that has been made before the renewal announcement comes out, it's usually part of the renewal announcement. And they never said that about the show, so that's why I'm saying it could even go past S7. Of course those of us who still love it could end up being "blindsided" by a "The final episodes start Friday night" promo at midseason in S7, just like when fans of The Good Wife learned their show ends in May from a "The Final 9 Episodes" promo during this year's Super Bowl, which aired on CBS. And I agree with you about Catherine. I never had a problem with her (or Michelle Borth, because I either never saw the social media crap she's been accused of, or else I thought she wasn't behaving in the way some accused her of, more like standing up to ardently pro-McDanno bullies; & I like both McDanno & McRollins, by the way), & I thought Catherine & Steve were good together... Until she started lying to him--& to Danny--in the last few eps we've seen her in. So, because of that stuff, as far as I'm concerned she can stay as far away as possible from Honolulu for as long as possible. I liked Lynn/Sarah Carter with Steve this season; I'd like to see where that relationship might go. Of course, as soon as Peter Lenkov Tweeted about S7, Catherine/McRollins fans started replying to him about bringing McRollins back in S7. Sigh... By the way... Ep 7 of S7 will be Ep 150 overall (already!).

RENEWED for Season 7! WOO-HOO! So take that, Cancellation Bear, TV Grim Reaper, & all other TV cancellation predictor sites saying H50 "could go either way" or was "certain to be canceled", or other negative phrases related to its continued existence as a first-run series after this season! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cbs-renews-11-series-no-878349

Apologies because I can't find the post to quote now (probably because I'm posting when I should be sleeping... Just saying), but I think someone pointed out upthread how interesting it was that the episode was named for Pastor Tim, but he was barely in the episode instead of being "front & center" like most other TV series (& movie) characters whose names are in the ep (or movie) title. I just wanted to say I agreed with that observation.

This Sunday is the "Sing Along" rebroadcast (with the song lyrics posted onscreen, & I think Live Tweeted commentary by various cast members) of Grease Live!. I think it's airing from 7-10PM Eastern on Fox.

I doublechecked; his Wikipedia page definitely says March 24, 2016 is his date of death. And I'm pretty sure the obit I linked to mentions or links to a Facebook post made (now) yesterday on his death by 1 of his children.

I think a pre-ep interview I read with Kirsten (I think in TV Guide or on TVLine.com) said she wrote Acts I & IV & Erica Messer wrote Acts II & III.

Responding to the bolded. I think I was still pretty young when he was on Days but, as I remember, yes he did make a suit look good. And I remember he played opposite the late Mary Frann on Days, who eventually went on to play Bob Newhart's character's wife, Joanna Loudon, on his second CBS sitcom Newhart (the show where, in the finale, Bob woke up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette--who was his wife in his first sitcom, where he was a Chicago psychologist & she was a schoolteacher, then a principal or vice-principal--& he was supposed to have dreamed the whole Newhart show's existence). Mary played Peter's Days character's wife; I think her character name was Amanda Peters (at least when she was introduced) & she was an alcoholic or something. She then ended up married to another doctor, Neil Curtis.

To be fair, Peter Brown died on the 23rd, the same day as Ken Howard. I just didn't get it posted here until the 24th. But yeah, death needs to stop taking so many celebs at this point in the year, or at least to stop taking, like, 3 on the same day.

Sorry I beat you. But I added the hamwing to my follows, as a result. So thank you for that. Yeah, there are tons of good TWW follows on Twitter--both in real life actors (among others, I recently found the actresses who played Leo's friend/former Labor Dept. co-worker Angela Blake--whom Leo pulled into the WH staff during some big crisis I've forgotten after not watching in a long time--& who played Kris, a member of the WH Press Corps especially when CJ was Press Secretary) & in people who Tweet as if they're the show's characters.

Back in the 2011-2012 TV season, ABC had a Sunday night drama based on fictional stewardesses (I think based on real life counterparts) working for the former real life airline Pan Am in the early 1960's. And 1 of the main stewardesses was shown to be a courier/an operative transporting various things between the different "interested in spying/national security" type agencies in the US & various foreign (as I remember, mostly Western European) destinations the airline flew, & the stewardess character was assigned to work flights, to. I think they also might've done an ep, before the show suffered an untimely cancellation, where the courier stewardess, with help from other crew she regularly flew with, had to do something involving Cuba. When they described the stewardess/courier plot before the show started, they explained that US airline crew members flying international flights, back in the day (if not also to this day), were oftentimes used as couriers/sort of spies by some intelligence-related agencies because the nature of their work wouldn't make them as suspect as others, as you mentioned.

The Esquire Network (it used to be E!'s sister channel, Style, if you go looking for it on your cable channels) will be airing a 12-hour marathon of hour-long portions of the real OJ trial from 9AM-9PM Eastern on April 3rd. http://deadline.com/2016/03/o-j-simpson-trial-esquire-network-marathon-1201726132/

The Waltons & Falcon Crest creator, Earl Hamner, Jr., age 92, from Cancer. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/earl-hamner-jr-creator-waltons-878287?utm_source=twitter And... Actor Peter Brown, star of Lawman & Days of Our Lives (among other daytime dramas), dead at age 80. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-brown-dead-lawman-star-877587

From Entertainment Weekly: Joshua & Hrishikesh list the 3 episodes each of them is anxious to talk about. http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/24/west-wing-weekly-podcast-joshua-malina-hrishikesh-hirway And Time magazine also talks about The West Wing Weekly: http://time.com/4270221/west-wing-podcast-joshua-malina/

The cast of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton recently redid 1 of their songs as a scene from The West Wing. The link is to an Entertainment Weekly article about it, & there's a YouTube video of the song embedded in the article. http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/23/hamilton-cabinet-battle-white-house-west-wing

A recap of the first Weekly podcast from Entertainment Weekly--where the writer (NOT Josh or Hrishikesh) calls President Bartlet Jeb, as in Bush, instead of the correct Jed. Sigh... You'd think the press would know the correct name by now. Especially since the show's been off 10 freakin' years already. http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/23/west-wing-weekly-podcast-premiere-recap

Apologies for such a late response; I only started reading this thread tonight. According to both their Wikipedia pages, Andrew Robinson from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine *isn't* Edward G. Robinson's son, as you said. Edward G.'s son was also named Edward G. Robinson; Andrew Robinson had a different father. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_G._Robinson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Robinson_(actor) On another note... I'm a fan of Scott Caan, who plays Danny Williams on the current version of Hawaii Five-0 & is the eldest son of the legendary actor James Caan, & the late actress/model/former girlfriend of Elvis Presley, Sheila Ryan (Scott was her & James' only child together, but James has an older daughter & 3 younger sons from marriages before & after the 1 to Scott's mom), & I was sort of surprised to see he hadn't been mentioned here yet. Scott isn't just an actor/screenwriter/director; he's also an accomplished playwright & photographer, & an author since books of some of his photographs & plays have been published. In their case, at least in recent years, the nepotism has been more like the father getting work in the son's projects (James has appeared in some movies Scott has written, directed, or both; he also appeared in an S2 Hawaii Five-0 ep where he played a character who *wasn't* related to Scott's character, despite the fact they bear some physical/facial resemblance to each other & share many of the same mannerisms) than the usual "famous parent gets their child a Hollywood job" thing. And while we're at it the late James MacArthur, the actor who played Danny Williams in the original version of Hawaii Five-O, was also a "second generation" actor, being the (adopted) son of the late legendary actress Helen Hayes & the late playwright Charles MacArthur. I think that's an interesting coincidence: the actor sons of 2 acting legends playing the same role in different versions of the same TV series 42 years apart.

If you're talking, in the bolded, about something like Siri, Cortana, or Alexa, you can also set i(whatever) devices with Siri on them so Siri speaks with a male voice instead of female (but I think only if your device uses iOS 7 or above; my iPhone 4s only has female Siri, since its iOS is below 7, but I might be able to get male Siri on my iPad mini 2 since it runs on an iOS above 7). I know you can set Siri so it speaks in different languages (logical, since you can also set your devices so you can read them in different languages); awhile back, for grins & giggles & because I like the sound of it, I changed Siri on my iPhone 4s so it speaks English with an Australian female accent instead of an American female accent.