Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montaban were two of my favorite actors when I was young. Neither one was exactly a superstar, but both of them starred in movies and TV shows that I loved. They have both died in the past few days. Patrick McGoohan was 80. He seems to have spent his entire career frowning and making the occasional cryptic comment. I love The Prisioner, an other worldly TV show Patrick McGoohan created and starred in about a secret agent that is kidnapped and renamed Number 6. He is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a…
Category: TV
Travel Channel’s Man vs Food
Do you really want your last words to be I’ll have another pork chop please?-Coach to Luther The Travel Channel has a number of food related travel shows-mostly of the I’m-not-sure-I’d-eat-that type. Andrew Zimmern and Anthony Bourdain go to exotic places and eat odd foods, which they seem to truly enjoy. These are fun shows to watch for the most part, but the odds of my finding my way to some remote part of the world to try some bizarre food is pretty slim. Not that I would really want to eat most of the stuff they eat. Man vs…
Emmy Nominations 2008
I watch a lot of TV, but not as much as I used to. I hear stats from time to time that people are wringing theirs hands over kids watching four or five hours of TV a day, and I think, what are these kids? Amish? The TV goes on when I wake up and goes off when I go to sleep. Well, maybe not quite as bad as that every day, I do leave the house once in a while. But the point is, I am sort of familiar with most of the TV shows up for an Emmy…
Mandy Patinkin bye,bye Crimial Minds
Mandy Patinkin is a great talent, but anytime he loses creative control, he walks. He’s been great in everything I’ve ever seen him in. The only trouble is that he doesn’t like doing the same role for very long. So it is no surprise that he is leaving his current show, Criminal Minds. It’s sort of surprising that he lasted as long as he did.The first role that I saw him in and was greatly impressed was Sunday in the Park with George, a musical about George Suerat the post impressionist pointillist painter. His voice is great and his acting…
Special K-Especially for Anorexics!
The Special K commercial is supposed to be cute and funny, it has a couple of girls skipping breakfast that have that embarrassing rumble in their tummies that they wouldn’t have if they just ate some breakfast. Ok, fine as far as it that message goes. It’s just that the two women in the ad appear anorexic in their thinness so the very idea that these 80 pounders need to loose weight is obscene. Matt at Kingdom Living wrote Kellogg’s an email and complained about the skinny models, with predictable results, i.e., none at all. If you’d like to write…