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Tom Holmberg

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  1. Season finale of "Three Busy Debras" concluded with the whole town of Lemoncurd, and the Debras,, killed by a meteor.
  2. This coming Sunday, R&B Greats The Ike And Tina Turner Revue - "Proud Mary"; Jackie Wilson - "Lonely Teardrops"; Stevie Wonder - "Fingertips"; James Brown - Medley: "Please, Please", "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag"; The Temptations - "I Can't Get Next To You".
  3. Tom Holmberg

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    You're correct. It was Louise Penny.
  4. I'll have to consider if I'll continue watching this show next season. The dream sequence was the only good part of the show.
  5. Tom Holmberg

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    I don't think he writes many, if any, of the books with his name on them, esp. those with a second author. I'd like to know who wrote the books he "wrote" with the Clintons.
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    I don't think that's the case, There's a character "Lamont Cranston" (The Shadow's alter-ego), "Margo Lane" (The Shadow's girlfriend), "The Shadow" (himself), and "Shiwan Khan" (the best known Shadow villain). They talk about the Shadow magazines and the Shadow radio program. Can't get more specific than that.
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    I've never read a James Patterson book, so I tried this one (even though I doubt he had much to do with the writing, not that he appears to have much to do with most of the books with his name on it). I enjoyed the original Shadow pulp stories from the 1930s, but this one really stunk. The book was basically a YA dystopian future story (like there aren't enough of those already) with a dim shadow of the Shadow as a secondary character. Why not just write an updated Shadow story set in the noir 1930s?
  8. They'll probably go back to running the old shows when they run out of genres (they've only been doing the compilation shows for three weeks. This coming Sunday is Soul music).
  9. That's too bad because The Ed Sullivan episodes lately have been just popular music compilations from various episodes. Last night's Folk-Rock compilation had a bunch of great clips. (And no plate-spinners or Topo Gigio to sit through).
  10. Combined a bunch of 80s themes: chop-socky movies, ninjas, vigilante movies, rollerskating, "The Warriors", etc.
  11. I DVRed "New York Ninja" but haven't watched it yet. Apparently it was made in the 1980s, but not finished until 2021!
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    I was unaware that he previously put out a "The Shadow" book, based on another pulp character..
  13. Tom Holmberg

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    For anyone familiar with the Doc Savage pulp novels, now James Patterson is coming out with a new Doc Savage novel (well, the son of Doc Savage, actually). The Perfect Assassin: A Doc Savage Thriller ISBN: 9781538721841 Prof. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary action hero Doc Savage—is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. I think James Patterson's "The Bible" is probably going to be next.
  14. Probably because the name of the show is "Young Sheldon." 😉
  15. R.I.P. Fred Ward (best known to me as Remo Williams), “True Detective,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “ER.” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-05-13/fred-ward-dead-obituary
  16. One of the actual Dragulas is located at the Volo Auto Museum in the Chicago suburbs.
  17. Our high school class valedictorian got his girlfriend pregnant, and although all the kids were sort of amused by that, there were no public repercussions. He still gave the speech at graduation.
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    This looks funny ( kind of like Reclutter Your Life) Rejected Books: The Most Unpublishable Books of All Time Graham Johnson & Rob Hibbert ISBN: 9780593235928 A collection of forty hilariously unrealistic, totally cringe-worthy covers for books that will never, ever be published--from the authors of Images You Should Not Masturbate To. This collection of imagined book covers will have you scratching your head and guffawing with every page turn. Though Pranks with Sausages and Holy Bible II don't actually exist, Rejected Books offers up a professionally produced series of photos imagining just what these wacky ideas (and plenty more) couldlook like. Rejected Books includes delightfully weird covers of imagined books like: •The Sculptors Who Couldn't Do Hands •Cooking with Breast Milk •Possessed Toys: A Buying Guide •Unfortunate Gluing Accidents •Camel Toes Through History Enjoy the worst book pitches of all time and rest assured that anyone can have a future in publishing...even if your ideas are totally horrible.
  19. They only redeeming features of this episode were Missy and Billy. Next week is the season's final episode and we'll probably have no payoff on the laundry/casino plot, which is largely ignored and probably a big George/Mary cliffhanger. I suspect that episode will be equally boring.
  20. I'd prefer the Dragula to the Batmobile any day.
  21. I'll watch it but I agree about the "Very Special Young Sheldon" story line (though it looks like Missy might get a little more time this week, but they keep promising but then don't deliver).
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