Thursday, December 15, 2016

Guide Us, Oh Stage Props

Hey wait a minute, that's not "Catwoman," that's Loretta Swit. [More]

Ol' Better Call Saul is a disappointment, but what did I really expect? And comrades Sheen, Farrell, Messing, "animal rights" looney Cromwell, and some people I've never heard of...

How very relevant to everything I hold dear.

I have to say, they deserve the same sober assessment we would give, say, Roger C. Carmel...

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That crew seems overly concerned about being "qualified." Well, as one of their fellow-democrats once said:

"In any town of 5,000 you could find a man good enough to be president."


--Harry Truman (from his biography by David McCullough)

Henry said...

"Sheen pledges that anyone who votes his or her way will go “down in the books as an American hero,” and others say those electors will “have my respect.””


Anybody besides me getting Axis Sally flashbacks?

Anonymous said...

Didn't old Loretta have Major Burns all over her back in the 70s?

Sorry, I couldn't help it.

Bad Cyborg said...

I once won $40 bucks on a bet involving Roger C Carmel. There were some visiting techs from HQ visiting our quaint little R&D engineering facility and some of us got to talking Trek (engineers and tech, what would you expect?). One of the visiting guys opined that Harry Mudd was in 3 epiodes including "Trouble With Tribbles", I said the peddlar was not Mudd and it was even a different actor. One guy INSISTED it WAS the actor who played Mudd because he'd watched the episode the previous evening on cable at the Motel.

I pulled out my wallet and extracted a $20 and said "Put your money where your mouth is." He agreed and his partner opined he'd like a piece of that action. The next morning I brought in my badly dog-eared copy of both James Blish's adaptation of TOS episodes and "The Making of Star Trek" by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry. I showed them the entry for "Tribbles" and that the character was named "Cyrano Jones" but neither would admit they were wrong; swearing that the Jones part was played by the same actor who played Mudd. Then I pulled out "Making" (which had cast credits for all Trek episodes) and showed them where veteran character actor, Stanley Adams, played Cyrano Jones. That night I took the wife to a movie and a steak at a nice steakhouse on the proceeds.

Did Roger C Carmel really die of a crack cocaine overdose while romping with a young male prostitute? Reckon he and Takei got it on while they wer shooting those two episodes?

David Codrea said...

Ah yes, Stanley Adams, who played the carrot leader of a vegetable uprising on Lost in Space...

If he'd ever made the big time, the media would amplify his every word on politics, just as if he were ... what's the word Martin Sheen & Co. use to try to discourage electors from acknowledging Trump...?

"Qualified."

Unknown said...

Yup , people that are paid to pretend and read something someone else wrote for them are the ones I trust to make my decisions for me .