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Because they cut their teeth on US R&B singers... and Elvis. They wouldn't have had their careers in part because they were inspired by their music and interpret it in their own way. I find that difficult to believe considering she was popular right up to the day she stopped performing. I would more likely think it could have been tax reasons or because her husband wanted to be there rather than the states. To a degree this was true. In Las Vegas, the Moulin Rouge was the place races could mix but by the time it went out of business in 1955, segregation here stopped (thanks to Frank Sinatra) but all were welcomed since then. Tina at the time she was with Ike and performing at the International Hotel was little more than part of the entourage until she built herself back and came back with a vengeance in 1983. Also, pools were not drained like that. Too much time to empty and too much time to fill.

During one of our interviews, Tina said that the movie was toned down compared to reality! She said her abuse was MUCH worse!! My station did a tribute to Tina last night - in part due to her Vegas connection since she performed here with Ike back in the day. The Fremont Street Experience also had a canopy lit up with tributes to her. Although for some reason, there seemed to be a little too much focus on a local performer who sings some of Tina's songs and who tried to make it a racial issue. Tina was hardly the first black performer in Vegas (as an individual or group) and certainly isn't the last.

Just happened to catch an episode of the vintage sitcom, "Hazel" and boy was this one more than a bit annoying! In, "The Countess" (1964) Hazel finds out she may be the heir to a distant relative's estate which is that of an English countess. She sends $25.00 to a law firm to confirm her claim as being related to the deceased. Her friend and fellow maid "Myrtle" gets Hazel to spill the info and winds up spreading it around town. Naturally, this sets everyone on their ear; George's snobby sister Deidre want to throw a coming out party for the newfound royalty, people start offering freebies of one kind or another to Hazel (free cab rides, etc.) and even Harold, the Baxter's son (and in some ways a grandson to Hazel) gets involved by charging his friends a nickel to see "the countess". All of this wears on Hazel and when the lawyer comes by the house to confirm Hazel is the legit heir, she asks him if they could "call it off". The lawyer says that would be impossible. They ask about the inheritance and say that Hazel's grandparents gave up the rank of title when they left for the US, and the castle and estate were taken for taxes in 1882. What does Hazel get? Half a dozen silver spoons - tarnished ones at that! Hazel is relieved. We don't get to see any fallout from all the fuss made for her through the episode, but it bugged me for the basic reason that I can't stand it when a character in a show (or film) are set up to get a great inheritance or opportunity then it turns into nothing by the end. I would have preferred that the inheritance have been misinterpreted by someone overhearing the conversation (say, status seeker Deidre) and thinking Hazel was royalty and coming into big things, then make the story from there. Although to someone like Hazel IRL, a set of silver spoons probably would be a big deal.

1) Depends on who's living there. 2) People can be poor but still have morals. Lots of people have lived in crime ridden areas but chosen not to indulge in criminal activity. Not quite. Remember what Willie Sutton said about why he robbed banks: "Because that's where the money is."

Yes. Canadians and Aussies do it too.

I caught the first 4 episodes on AS last night and I can't help but have questions - ones I hope Gendy will eventually answer: 1) How are the new vessels for the souls chosen? Watching the past incarnations, they all seemed to be warriors of one kind or another. None of the current vessels fit into that mold. 2) How does the soul occupation work? Is the original soul destroyed or moved or pushed into a proverbial corner when the Unicorn blasts them? Once the evil entity is defeated, what happens to the people who were used for the warrior's souls? Do they live out their natural lives? Do they die immediately after while time passes until the next call? Do the souls of Melinda Edred and Sed leave the bodies and leave the occupants free to pick up their lives? 3) How did Copernicus end up in a London cemetery when last we saw him he was in the American western frontier and how did the fox's robots know to look for him there? 4) The previous incarnation looked like it took place in the Old West - say between the 1840s and 1880s (since this is 1890 London now, and Emma was not even 20, we could go with 1869-70). Something had to go on between the 20+ years since that battle to lead to these events. 5) What about those two people who claimed they were meant to be the vessels for Seng and Melinda (even claiming to have trained for it) and one of them claiming to have been a descendant of the female knight in an earlier battle. Were they really who they said they were? After all, how did they know of the past incarnations/battles happening and the preparation to be next to receive the souls? That's not something generally known. Could someone have made a mistake?

Loved your story!! I keep hoping Bitcheroo will get caught and get tossed out with the trash, but I'm not lucky enough for that. When she does go, believe me, those of us who are in the know about her treachery will have one helluva celebratory! I had an interesting week myself. Our long time senior weatherman "T" was moved from his 10pm weather reports and was christened (according to the News Director's email) "Captain T - who will master drone duties from now on." T bought a drone a couple years back and it's been very useful to the station (many viewers think the video we get from it is a helicopter!) getting us great aerial shots of various landmarks, etc. . However, I have a hunch this is the beginning of the end for him because there is already other weather people with us who are younger and work cheaper than he does. I wouldn't be surprised if a dump wasn't in the works. His own wife (they met when he was doing weather and she was a morning anchor) was dumped for a younger version several years back (I was told that she took it pretty rough - crying her eyes out!) only for THAT woman to get dumped for a DUI she got a few months later (morals clause). She bounced back though and works for the Chamber of Commerce. We also lost our morning weather girl, C. She was a nice person and worked for us for almost 10 years. She wanted to spend more normal hours by getting a job more in synch with that of her husband and 6 year old daughter. Can't blame her for that. SHe'll be the new PR flack for a local hospital. Meanwhile, I was kept super busy today! Part of it was due to it being Friday - which is the day our show wants to announce all the acts coming in for the weekend (EDC, Santana, etc.) and that means downloading a lot of video and formatting them for the report. We also have a Pet Files which is the pet project of one of our morning anchors, J. We used to play various viral videos of animals doing silly stuff, but when that became verboten, J gets local viewers to submit video and he thrown in some comedy. Today was a special package he wanted. He found this on the Tennessee Titan's Twitter page so he wanted to emulate it with animals and include when the LV Raiders would be battling other teams next season. I was tasked to get the videos, get a bunch of stills of logos of the other teams (13 weeks worth!) and put them into a cohesive package with royalty free music! That took a while but the end product came out well!

I definitely wasn't expecting Emma's fiancee to turn up! I also had an issue with him being left on a floating board and told by Edred to go home. How the heck was he going to do that considering you left him in the middle of the ocean??

I don't even remember when Kravitz and Bonet married or how long before she got pregnant although I could see it if the character of Denise was not married (yet) and the actress getting pregnant during production. That means they marry the character off or play "hide the belly" until the end of the pregnancy. Much of what I do remember was from ET reports and tabloid coverage at the time. I have no doubt there were backstage shenanigans between the two (perhaps a personality conflict or something similar).

Unfortunately for them they don't seem to know a lot of things. Especially economics! Seriously, did they think that Bruce giving away his money would end crime? I don't know how much money Bruce had in assets (cash or what could be exchanged for cash) in this universe, but assuming there are 8 million people in Gotham how many are poor as defined by the writers? People who make less than 50K annually? People on welfare and other government assistance? Then consider that a one time payment may not last long. There are real life tales of lottery winners and even sports celebs who had millions and lost most of it in less than 5 years. What makes you think the "poor" who get say 250k are going to be able to hold on to that money? IRL, lots of people piss it away on stupid stuff. Not to mention a story I had read about the CA Gold Rush (1849) in which when gold was discovered and a boomtown was filled with "rich people" who had access to gold nuggets and gold dust, were paying inflated prices for ordinary items! Eggs were a dollar each! Imagine the inflation if this plan had come to pass. Criminology/Criminal psychology - How does one come to the conclusion crime is rooted in lack of money? Lots of people who have money do criminal acts for all sorts of reasons. This show would have you believe the entire class of Gotham's poor are all Jean Valjeans who steal because they need a loaf of bread! Bull!! There's not even a mention is Turner would be covered. Is he supposed to be given X amount of cash and sent to find his own way somehow? To move out of Wayne Manor, drop out of the Academy? Teenagers rarely know how to handle themselves once out on their own.

Understandably at the time he thought it would be a bad reflection towards the show (and Cosby by extension). He generally tried to keep his public image clean and that included his TV children. IIRC those two were at odds a lot before getting booted to "A Different World". I think the actress' pregnancy pushed it to the edge.

In this case, it's because the father is not likely to be involved in the kid's life the same way a younger parent would be! It's one thing to be a grandparent at 79, but a parent of a new baby? Hope she gets good child support from DeNiro's estate.

Methinks Bob Hope's relationship with NBC (the network on which HTH aired) since his radio days was a big reason. He may have had a special coming up as well at the time. I'm sure ML (who had a skeleton closet of his own) knew some of the skeleton's in Bob Hope's closet as well.

Here's a new Hell No: From Highway to Heaven it's "Heaven Nose, Mister Smith" (1988). The plot: Jonathan and Mark go to salvage a rich man's marriage. He married the maid about a decade earlier and she is hoping to start a family, he wants to just run (apparently he took up the hobby and decided to run in a local race). A complication is that his father (who died the day of the wedding while trying to warn him he was marrying the wrong woman) has come back as an angel - in the form of a butler. He is determined to break up and marriage and have him marry his son's childhood sweetheart (old money and "well bred"). Jonathan was sent to stop the butler from doing this and get the marriage back on track. Then the race comes, and due to a fall, he breaks his toe so he essentially can't run much less win. Jonathan guilts him into running and finishing the race otherwise he'd be a quitter! He does so, and stumbles over the finish line to find his wife there waiting for him. They reconcile, Butler Angel Dad realized his son married the right girl after all, and goes back to heaven. I was so peeved at the son being guilted into running while on a broken toe! It's not like he skinned his knee! Serious issues could develop running on a broken bone. Second, I think it would have been much more interesting if the story had proven the father was right! What a different episode it could have been if the maid was looking for a meal ticket, married the guy, enjoyed spending his money, etc. while his true love really was the other woman! The intro to the episode was also annoying, as Jonathan was driving the car, when a divine superior (played by Bob Hope!) decide to take him up to Heaven then and there!! Hello?? The least he could have done was either wait until Jonathan stopped the car or had the car drive itself until he returned. He nearly caused an accident!

I heard it was an OD.

Yes - several times in fact. He would leap into an actor who was working with his former piano teacher. He'd always had a crush on her but was obviously too young to pursue it. Leaping into an adult, he could - and did! There was also the Trilogy episodes in which he was the father of a troubled child, the fiance of the same child 12 years later (and fathered a child with her) then the attorney for the same woman 12 years after that. He was also a husband (and a wife!) in several couples so it's possible there were marital relations then as well.

I remember this show! Didn't know Reynolds was in it though! I thought it was an intriguing premise, but then I lost track of it.

The Monkees?? A glazed look? Heresy!! Of course the show was aimed at tweens and teens so maybe the kids didn't understand it yet. When the group was becoming big again for their 20th anniversary, lots of kids 12 and up would see it on MTV and asking their parents about this "new" show! Sometimes though a past show, regardless of genre is often remembered more for the chemistry of its cast and/or unique setting than anything else. Sometimes the writing or format doesn't hold up. I have found that the early season half hour episodes of Gunsmoke hold up fairly well. I've been catching them on cable recently and because they don't waste time and are so well written - they're almost mini movies! Brady Bunch I agree is a bit treacly during the first season (according to sources I've read elsewhere, it was supposed to be a bit more dramatic than it ultimately became which annoyed Robert Reed who wanted out after season 2). I also think some of the issues the show dealt with were so much lighter compared to today. Remember in the Brady Bunch films Jan was complaining to her counselor (played by RuPaul!) that she resented being the middle child (echoing an episode from the original show), while the counselor asked her if she had bigger issues like drugs or pregnancy!

Definitely!! I watched the show and was really interested in how it was going to play out (though I do remember an episode in which the character found where his match was supposed to be but finds out at the last minute that she had been moved) and I was disappointed it vanished so quick. Same for Judson Scott - except for a few roles I caught him in afterwards, he seemed to fall off the radar.

Those May/December romances are chancy at best. Seriously though, I wouldn't be surprised if his kids (who run his empire now - or at least FNC) told him to call it off. They do NOT like to share.

Something from Entertainment Lawyer: How will this end?? and finally:

Caught one from a rerun of Last Man Standing: In the episode, Mike's middle daughter Mandy is dating a boy named Terrance. Naturally he hates everything Mike stands for. First we get some Hell No moments earlier in the episode like insulting her parents in their own home and telling Mike how wrong he is to hunt innocent animals. Then after a date with Mandy, he tricks her into taking him to Outdoor Man after hours where he vandalizes an antique stuffed bear (shot by Teddy Roosevelt). Mike gets a clue about the boy's intentions and goes straight to Outdoor Man to look for him. Eventually he catches him and the little weasel, who isn't sorry for the damage he had done or that he used Mandy to take an ideological poke at Mike. The Hell Yeah! moment is when Mike gives Terrance his punishment which certainly fits the crime! He has him dressed like Teddy Roosevelt and has him tell a crowd a history lesson on his accomplishments (including his conservation efforts). When he asks Mike how long he has to keep doing it, Mike tells him, "When the bear says you can leave." When Terrance mentions that the bear doesn't talk, Mike responds, "Well there ya go!!". Loved that! While Terrance was entitled to his beliefs, using Mandy and destroying private property was not cool.

Same! His jabs at politics while playing the piano were always hilarious! He was even spoofed on The SImpsons!

Not to mention how many times they retcon the eras Marge and Homer met/dated! It went from the early 70s - to the 90s !! For anyone who has ever had a "Hell no!" for bratty little DW on the PBS kid's show, Arthur, may I introduce you to this guy!

Kind of reminds me of George Lucas who meddles with his original Star Wars film and adds stuff to it because he has the money and technology to do so. Maybe some singers want to change things up because they always wanted to do something different with it they couldn't do when they originally recorded it. I agree with this. They are in their 60s and grandparent age now. Their perspective on the world is different than it was 30+ years ago. You can't sing about youthful rebellion in leather pants forever.