When Bob (the show) began, I already loved it just because 8t was about a comic book character. Since I too am an illustrator, and a fan.of comics, I was happy to see it. Unfortunately, CBS decided to rewrite the show and make it about greeting cards. Even Betty White couldn't save it because the writers sucked. This is one of those great shows that was never given a chance. A true shame... like The Tony Randall Show about a judge and his caustic secretary.
Reviews
6 Reviews
Skyfall
(2012)
Skyfall had me falling in love with Daniel Craig's James Bond!!
12 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I give this one 12 glowing flaming Meerkats for its music, casting and yes, even sickness of it all, (Long story about the Meercats I'll tell you about one day.
It was invented by my life coach and crazy "bastid" friend (I spelled it that way on purpose, so don't tell me how to spell "bastard," please.)
Forgive me for what credits I didn't mention. I hope to correct that by adding some another time.
Since 1964 and Goldfinger, when I was not yet 14 that summer, I have been a die-hard fan of 007! Even Roger Moore had some great ones without Jaws and stupid jokes and some great themes, but Daniel Craig won me over as Bond I even now have the hots for the new black Moneypenny.
Spoilers...
The only thing I didn't like, was the killing by the villain of one beautiful woman whom he shot dead, but I understood why the bad guy needed to do it, just to mess with our hero. But it was very good to see Javier Bardem get killed by James Bond There are bits of every decent Bond movie starting with From Russia With Love, to Goldfinger, Thunderball and even On Her Majesty's Secret Service in this thrilling, nail-biting 50th Anniversary Movie.
One thing I caught only a few days ago, was Judi Dench's (M) mention of her "late husband" who could only have been Bernard Lee, the Original M, Admiral Sir Miles Messervy. That made me cry even more while it thrilled me to the bone. And yet she (Teresa, I believe) died in Bond's arms the way George Lazenby's Bond (and less then stellar acting in OHMSS) bride died (Diana Riggs, in this case whom would have been wonderful had it been Sean Connery in the flick.)
No more spoilers...
The theme was singable and memorable as well, and I'm glad it won an Oscar which Goldfinger should have gotten)
You know, I really wasn't fond of Craig in the beginning, but I changed my mind after the second time I watched his first film Casino Royale. Now, I'm a die-hard fan forever! Especially after I found out that Mr. Craig did most of his own stunts!
Spoilers...
Ewan McGregor as the new M was perfectly cast, but I am still sad at the loss of Madame Judi Dench though I know she had lost most of her sight and has gotten quite old.
No more spoilers...
After I saw some reviewers "hating" this motion Picture, I wondered who asked them? Stupid people, if you ask me.
I mean, what is here to hate about this amazing Motion Picture? The answer?... nothing! ...and you can take that to the bank once you look at how much cash it raised,
I'm glad to hear that Daniel Craig will do two more at least, but I'm hoping he will do another 3 before he leaves.
I have watched all of the Bond films, and many, multiple times, but I have also watched a few comedy versions that had their good points. Like "OK Connery" or "Operation Kid Brother" with Sean's younger brother, Neil Connery with a beard and an American dubbed voice - plus many of the actors from the Bond series of the time from Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, plus a few villains in the series in those days. It came out about the same time as Sean was doing one of the two films (You Only Live Twice with a in which he was going to leave, but didn't.
It even had Ennio Morricone doing the score with a fun, silly song called O.K. Connery (which makes me have to sing it every time I say "Ok."
I even saw the 67 parody which was really bad, even with Orson Welles and David Niven as Sir James Bond (proving Ian Fleming wrong and so wanting to cast him in the part he was so wrong for the role. Fortunately Peter Sellers was lots of fun as well as Burt Bacharach's music theme which is best without lyrics. Even a strange cameo by George Raft flipping a coin in old 30's gangster attire.
In The 1957 CBS-TV Climax version with Barry Nelson as "Jimmy Bond" as a boring American spy working with British spy "Clarence" Leiter even more dull.
It is only Peter Lorre as Le Chifre who makes the black and white show interesting in an Ian Fleming sadistic torturer scene at the end, making the idea of Lorre in one Sean Connery film perhaps as the Emilio Largo in that film.
A shame that didn't happen.
This film could have bee a great ending to a fantastic series, but James Bond "will return" again, people!
It was invented by my life coach and crazy "bastid" friend (I spelled it that way on purpose, so don't tell me how to spell "bastard," please.)
Forgive me for what credits I didn't mention. I hope to correct that by adding some another time.
Since 1964 and Goldfinger, when I was not yet 14 that summer, I have been a die-hard fan of 007! Even Roger Moore had some great ones without Jaws and stupid jokes and some great themes, but Daniel Craig won me over as Bond I even now have the hots for the new black Moneypenny.
Spoilers...
The only thing I didn't like, was the killing by the villain of one beautiful woman whom he shot dead, but I understood why the bad guy needed to do it, just to mess with our hero. But it was very good to see Javier Bardem get killed by James Bond There are bits of every decent Bond movie starting with From Russia With Love, to Goldfinger, Thunderball and even On Her Majesty's Secret Service in this thrilling, nail-biting 50th Anniversary Movie.
One thing I caught only a few days ago, was Judi Dench's (M) mention of her "late husband" who could only have been Bernard Lee, the Original M, Admiral Sir Miles Messervy. That made me cry even more while it thrilled me to the bone. And yet she (Teresa, I believe) died in Bond's arms the way George Lazenby's Bond (and less then stellar acting in OHMSS) bride died (Diana Riggs, in this case whom would have been wonderful had it been Sean Connery in the flick.)
No more spoilers...
The theme was singable and memorable as well, and I'm glad it won an Oscar which Goldfinger should have gotten)
You know, I really wasn't fond of Craig in the beginning, but I changed my mind after the second time I watched his first film Casino Royale. Now, I'm a die-hard fan forever! Especially after I found out that Mr. Craig did most of his own stunts!
Spoilers...
Ewan McGregor as the new M was perfectly cast, but I am still sad at the loss of Madame Judi Dench though I know she had lost most of her sight and has gotten quite old.
No more spoilers...
After I saw some reviewers "hating" this motion Picture, I wondered who asked them? Stupid people, if you ask me.
I mean, what is here to hate about this amazing Motion Picture? The answer?... nothing! ...and you can take that to the bank once you look at how much cash it raised,
I'm glad to hear that Daniel Craig will do two more at least, but I'm hoping he will do another 3 before he leaves.
I have watched all of the Bond films, and many, multiple times, but I have also watched a few comedy versions that had their good points. Like "OK Connery" or "Operation Kid Brother" with Sean's younger brother, Neil Connery with a beard and an American dubbed voice - plus many of the actors from the Bond series of the time from Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, plus a few villains in the series in those days. It came out about the same time as Sean was doing one of the two films (You Only Live Twice with a in which he was going to leave, but didn't.
It even had Ennio Morricone doing the score with a fun, silly song called O.K. Connery (which makes me have to sing it every time I say "Ok."
I even saw the 67 parody which was really bad, even with Orson Welles and David Niven as Sir James Bond (proving Ian Fleming wrong and so wanting to cast him in the part he was so wrong for the role. Fortunately Peter Sellers was lots of fun as well as Burt Bacharach's music theme which is best without lyrics. Even a strange cameo by George Raft flipping a coin in old 30's gangster attire.
In The 1957 CBS-TV Climax version with Barry Nelson as "Jimmy Bond" as a boring American spy working with British spy "Clarence" Leiter even more dull.
It is only Peter Lorre as Le Chifre who makes the black and white show interesting in an Ian Fleming sadistic torturer scene at the end, making the idea of Lorre in one Sean Connery film perhaps as the Emilio Largo in that film.
A shame that didn't happen.
This film could have bee a great ending to a fantastic series, but James Bond "will return" again, people!
Sherlock Holmes
(1916)
Sherlock Holmes lives once more!
13 August 2017
OMG, do I love this classic movie.
At long last, the great William Gillette is more than a footnote and a photo, but the man who MADE Sherlock Holmes alive for so many before us! The curved Meerschaum pipe is at last remembered for what it was... A stage relived item so as not to maim the voice of the REAL Sherlock Holmes. And the famous Sherlock robe we have seen in Sidney Paget illustrations in the Canon that was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his 56 treasures.
For over 1400 performances on stage, this Connecticut Yankee brought the British detective as actor William Gillette... not to mention, the radio play he once did, and many actors had wonderful careers bringing Sherlock onto the stage for at least 100 years.
It's hard to conceive after watching this recording of historic magnitude, that Gillette got boos from London audiences but Gillette stood through this before speaking to them. This amazing moment was brought to the British public by an English reviewer who said that this same British public owed Gillette an apology, and he said it all n his review. Imagine! A Brit praised this Connecticut Yankee this way. Good for him.
The DVD brings to marvelous excellence William Gillette's astounding performance. I had expected the usual almost cartoonish physicality, but I was so wrong. Gillette makes me understand why he was as revered actor and performer. One reviewer brought up that he was almost doing the later performance of Jeremy Brett, and having seen it now, I cannot disagree.
The astonishing work of this movie has marveled me into a luxurious gift into the long past that never ages. I feel blessed to having seen this incredible actor's most celebrated performance to know that the true Sherlock Holmes is alive forever!
To the guide of Gillette Castle in Connecticut gave me terribly wrong information that THE William Gillette never performed this movie even with an enlarged photo of the man in this performance I now own with all of my Sherlock performances on video, and for that I feel I am blessed forever.
Please watch this fabulous film and see for yourselves all that I have said is true. Basil, Arthur Wontner, Eille Norwood and Jeremy Brett owe everything to William Gillette as well as they and the Conan Doyle Canon.
It's all here on this gift to all of you Sherlock Holmes fans.
At long last, the great William Gillette is more than a footnote and a photo, but the man who MADE Sherlock Holmes alive for so many before us! The curved Meerschaum pipe is at last remembered for what it was... A stage relived item so as not to maim the voice of the REAL Sherlock Holmes. And the famous Sherlock robe we have seen in Sidney Paget illustrations in the Canon that was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his 56 treasures.
For over 1400 performances on stage, this Connecticut Yankee brought the British detective as actor William Gillette... not to mention, the radio play he once did, and many actors had wonderful careers bringing Sherlock onto the stage for at least 100 years.
It's hard to conceive after watching this recording of historic magnitude, that Gillette got boos from London audiences but Gillette stood through this before speaking to them. This amazing moment was brought to the British public by an English reviewer who said that this same British public owed Gillette an apology, and he said it all n his review. Imagine! A Brit praised this Connecticut Yankee this way. Good for him.
The DVD brings to marvelous excellence William Gillette's astounding performance. I had expected the usual almost cartoonish physicality, but I was so wrong. Gillette makes me understand why he was as revered actor and performer. One reviewer brought up that he was almost doing the later performance of Jeremy Brett, and having seen it now, I cannot disagree.
The astonishing work of this movie has marveled me into a luxurious gift into the long past that never ages. I feel blessed to having seen this incredible actor's most celebrated performance to know that the true Sherlock Holmes is alive forever!
To the guide of Gillette Castle in Connecticut gave me terribly wrong information that THE William Gillette never performed this movie even with an enlarged photo of the man in this performance I now own with all of my Sherlock performances on video, and for that I feel I am blessed forever.
Please watch this fabulous film and see for yourselves all that I have said is true. Basil, Arthur Wontner, Eille Norwood and Jeremy Brett owe everything to William Gillette as well as they and the Conan Doyle Canon.
It's all here on this gift to all of you Sherlock Holmes fans.
Clayton Moore is back... and better than ever.
9 August 2017
After several episodes with the dull John Hart, Clayton Moore returns to the role that he created, and all is well.
From the beginning, The Lone Ranger and Tonto look wonderfully recovered. There they are on Silver and Scout ready for a new assignment to save the West from another adventure.
Seems as though Clay Trowbridge and his wife, the lovely Rosita are in distress as he doesn't seem to get a decent job for himself now that he has escaped from prison. Also, he doesn't see to know that he has a pardon from the Governor of the state. So e decides he has nothing left to do but to go back to the outlaws with whom he has worked to do yet another job just as wrong as the one which imprisoned him. Rosita tells him that she has hope, but he isn't convinced. Besides, Rosita too has her own similar problem.
Enter the Lone Ranger and Tonto, but they have 2 things to do to fix the situation and they must stop him before he ruins the pardon as he commits yet another crime.
Clay Trowbridge knows nothing about any of this. Hence, the plot you have to watch it and see.
A thrilling episode and the acting is some of the best with excellent casting like John Doucette and Denver Pyle from the usual cast.
Clayton Moore is back and in his prime once more.
The Lone Ranger rides again!
From the beginning, The Lone Ranger and Tonto look wonderfully recovered. There they are on Silver and Scout ready for a new assignment to save the West from another adventure.
Seems as though Clay Trowbridge and his wife, the lovely Rosita are in distress as he doesn't seem to get a decent job for himself now that he has escaped from prison. Also, he doesn't see to know that he has a pardon from the Governor of the state. So e decides he has nothing left to do but to go back to the outlaws with whom he has worked to do yet another job just as wrong as the one which imprisoned him. Rosita tells him that she has hope, but he isn't convinced. Besides, Rosita too has her own similar problem.
Enter the Lone Ranger and Tonto, but they have 2 things to do to fix the situation and they must stop him before he ruins the pardon as he commits yet another crime.
Clay Trowbridge knows nothing about any of this. Hence, the plot you have to watch it and see.
A thrilling episode and the acting is some of the best with excellent casting like John Doucette and Denver Pyle from the usual cast.
Clayton Moore is back and in his prime once more.
The Lone Ranger rides again!
Visit to a Small Planet
(1960)
I like Gore Vidal, but in this one, I prefer Jerry Lewis's version.
18 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I remember seeing this move in it's original rum in the Central Square Theatre when I was a kid, but I read the play years later in my high school library in a book of plays from that year.
I still remember Fred Clark as the Dad whom I knew from TV shows like The Burns and Allen Show.
There where many sight gags in the movie which made me laugh uproariously at the time, and I remember sharing many scenes to old friends in the projects just afterwards.
One I remember particularly was when Kreton (Lewis) played some bongos without touching them as the drummer(Buddy Rich, whom I didn't know THEN) angrily played the drum.
I also remember Joan Blackman's boyfriend as Earl Holliman. He was one of those who I knew better in television on a lot of westerns and an early Twilight Zone episode, and a character part in Forbidden Planet.
Many actors I learned about much after the fact from TV versions or reruns.
I loved this movie then, and I love it even more now.
I still don't understand or get those who hate Jerry Lewis in films, but I certainly understand those who didn't like him as a person.
Having met him one time in a local TV Show when I brought him a portrait I had done, he didn't look at me much as he told me his wife took those. Her name was Patty and she was wonderful though, as she loved my drawing and thanked me profusely. She even introduced me to her son, whom I believe is now working for Jerry's business answering fan mail.
I think this is one of his best, and it only gets better with each viewing. I don't think Gore Vidal's play would work since it was more of a satire of the McCarthy hearings, and wouldn't hold as well as this movie.
I still remember Fred Clark as the Dad whom I knew from TV shows like The Burns and Allen Show.
There where many sight gags in the movie which made me laugh uproariously at the time, and I remember sharing many scenes to old friends in the projects just afterwards.
One I remember particularly was when Kreton (Lewis) played some bongos without touching them as the drummer(Buddy Rich, whom I didn't know THEN) angrily played the drum.
I also remember Joan Blackman's boyfriend as Earl Holliman. He was one of those who I knew better in television on a lot of westerns and an early Twilight Zone episode, and a character part in Forbidden Planet.
Many actors I learned about much after the fact from TV versions or reruns.
I loved this movie then, and I love it even more now.
I still don't understand or get those who hate Jerry Lewis in films, but I certainly understand those who didn't like him as a person.
Having met him one time in a local TV Show when I brought him a portrait I had done, he didn't look at me much as he told me his wife took those. Her name was Patty and she was wonderful though, as she loved my drawing and thanked me profusely. She even introduced me to her son, whom I believe is now working for Jerry's business answering fan mail.
I think this is one of his best, and it only gets better with each viewing. I don't think Gore Vidal's play would work since it was more of a satire of the McCarthy hearings, and wouldn't hold as well as this movie.
The Celebrity Game
(I) (1964–1965)
Car Reiner's hair
20 December 2016
I thought I had already written this. But I noticed that Carl Reiner on one day wore his toupee, and the next week, he didn't. I thought it was his in-joke. The show also had his former boss Mel Brooks from Your Show Of Shows. While they say it was another version of an old show called People Will Talk, it is clearly what became The Hollywood Squares. The same nine squares were that way on both shows. That show came on in just a few years. Many of those in the cubes were also on both shows.It also had many of the stars from the other show. Including, Rose Marie, Cliff Arquette (Charley Weaver) and even Zsa Zsa Gabor. Yet it only lasted one season.
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