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I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned the best way to pass the time whilst waiting for the coronavirus to wipe out mankind (especially obese men with compromised lungs and totally sedentary lifestyles living in the epicenter of the epicenter). Harken back to the day when bacteria saved mankind by wiping out those nasty Martians who’d taken over… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fnPn9Xr7fI Tracks 1-5 (0:00-44:15, through the martian victory) are superb. Track 4 (31:42-39:00, FOREVER AUTUMN, by Justin Hayward) is beautiful. Richard Burton-Taylor – spoken words (The Journalist: the narrator-protagonist) Justin Hayward (Moody Blues)– vocals (The Sung Thoughts of the Journalist) David Essex (ROCK ON) – spoken words and vocals (The Artilleryman) Julie Covington (star of EVITA on the London stage, the TV mini-series ROCK FOLLIES)– spoken words and vocals (Beth) Chris Thompson (lead vocal on Blinded By The Light [wrapped up like a douche], singer of the theme from THE CHAMP) – vocals (The Voice of Humanity)

cameos from Edina & Patsy the only good thing that came out of that TV show I soooooooooooo prefer this to Petulant Clark's version! a much better song than Mickey... I discovered it when a young man stripped to it at The Follies theater in NYC.

While STILL waiting for the 2 songs they recorded in 2018, I've gotten into Cher's album.. My faves: Bruce Willis' daughter & one of the interns from CAROL'S SECOND ACT are in this video. of course we need this extended dance remix!

My favorite memory of that movie happened before we ever got into the theater. I saw it with three friends. Two were walking together in front of me and the other person. I innocently spit out my gum, and it landed in the cuff of my friend Helene's jeans. I didn't aim. I also didn't tell her and when she wore them again a few days later, it was still there. I also remember the very beginning of the movie, when the mural of the muses was shown, then the opening music dissolved into I'm Alive and I said to my friends "Oh no. Tell me they're not going to come alive and start dancing." Which, of course, they did, as I dissolved into hysterical laughter. What an awful movie with an excellent soundtrack.

FAKE NEWS!!! Richard Belzer played John Munch for 7 seasons on HOMICIDE, then the first 14 seasons of SVU, so HE broke the record. And if you want to get technical, he appeared once each in seasons 15 & 17, so that's 23 years of playing the character. SVU's been renewed for 3 more years, so she'll get to 24, but as a producer on the show, she'd better make sure he doesn't guest-star again. Nobody will ever break his record of playing the same character on 10 different shows: Homicide SVU Law & Order The X-Files The Beat The Wire 30 Rock Arrested Development Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Law & Order: Trial By Jury (the Bebe Neuwirth spin-off that bombed... it had Jerry Orbach's last 2 appearances as Lenny... he was supposed to have a lighter load on the show, but died)

Maybe they can run zip lines from large apartment buildings to office towers.

I've been channel surfing a lot & came across these 2 shows-- one old, one new. THE FUNNY DANCE SHOW (on E!) pits 2 pairs of comedians against each other in a dance off, with the winner getting $10,000 for their favorite charity. It's fun, and this week dwarf comedian Brad Williams teamed up with his handsome friend Adam Ray. BTW, Brad met his normal-sized wife in a 3-some, and they still have 3-somes. https://www.eonline.com/shows/the_funny_dance_show/videos/305996/adam-brad-channel-their-inner-sia-in-elastic-heart https://www.eonline.com/shows/the_funny_dance_show/videos HOT ONES has apparently been around for years. It's an odd interview show in which the host and guest eat 10 increasingly hot & spicy chicken wings during a fairly-straightforward interview. I've watched Halle Berry & Los Hermanos Jonas on the show & enjoyed both. FULL EPISODES, with the ads cut out: https://firstwefeast.com/video/2019/06/halle-berry-hot-ones https://firstwefeast.com/video/2019/05/jonas-brothers-hot-ones I haven't tried HOT ONES: The Game Show-- no celebs on that one.

I'm mourning the cancellation of LIGHTS OUT WITH DAVID SPADE. It was an often-hilarious look at pop culture news of the day, with Spade joined by (usually) 3 guest comedians. If you want to bust a gut laughing, some episodes are still on demand, and episode #100 was the best episode. HYSTERICAL! Josh Wolf was my favorite guest:

Enjoying the lockdown:

He was 81.

My pot dealer is essential, vital, invaluable...

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He was Playgirl's first centerfold, though not nude. His chartreuse bikini is burned in my brain. I loved the GOLDEN GIRLS episode in which he and Sonny Bono (as themselves) fought over Dorothy. I'm too lazy to look it up, but it may have been the last TV appearance for each. I was very surprised reading in his obituary that he started STAR WAGGONS, a company that makes high-end trailers for TV & movies actors on set. Lyle Waggoner's name is attached to nearly every hit out of Hollywood, from "Breaking Bad" to "Avatar," from "The Hangover" to "Gran Torino." However, you won't find the veteran actor's name in the cast credits. Instead, it's scattered all over the set. On trailers. Waggoner is the owner of Star Waggons, a company of 800 trailers built to accommodate every conceivable need on location. Revenues in 2015 were somewhere around $17 million, up 18 percent in a year. Movie trailers have come a long way. "When I first started, we had a plywood box with a little bed in it, a mirror and a light bulb over the top," the 80-year-old Waggoner said, sitting inside a massive trailer decked like out a modern hotel room. A lifelong entrepreneur, Waggoner's strange path to manufacturing success started in St. Louis, where he worked as a door-to-door salesman. Customers kept telling him, "You should be an actor." So he moved to Los Angeles to study acting and admits he got very lucky, very quickly. He landed a spot on "The Carol Burnett Show," and later on "Wonder Woman." "I wanted to have my own business, and being an actor is really having your own business," he said. "You're the product, you're the salesperson." While working on "Wonder Woman," Waggoner's contract allowed him to have a trailer on location. "They gave me a motor home," he said. "This was a big improvement." He found out the motor home was being rented from a local resident. Waggoner's entrepreneurial spirit kicked in. He went to the show's transportation coordinator and asked, "If I had a motor home, would you rent it from me?" The coordinator said yes, "So I went out and bought one." Soon Waggoner was buying a fleet of motor homes and renting them out to studios all over town, using his star power to sway loan officers and paycheck as collateral to get more money for more vehicles. "I didn't know if this was going to work or not," he said, "but that's what entrepreneurs do, they take a risk." Star Waggons started paying off almost immediately. For every $50,000 motor home Waggoner bought, his monthly payment was around $400. "I was renting them for $400 or $500 a week." Waggoner ended up with 90 motor homes, and a business he originally envisioned as a "backup" to acting soon had a starring role. "There was some pushback from the fact that I was an actor," Waggoner said of how studios reacted to his new business venture. "But if they didn't want me in there, why didn't they do it?" Then came a huge decision. In 1988, Waggoner decided to stop buying motor homes and start building trailers instead. The RV business in Los Angeles had taken a downturn, so there was plenty of manufacturing talent available. Waggoner figured trailers would be better than motor homes because they could be towed, they didn't have transmissions, which needed fixing. Also, building his own trailers allowed Waggoner to customize them for actors. "You needed a makeup area, you needed a full-length mirror." His goal: Make the best trailers in Hollywood. Fast-forward 28 years, and Star Waggons manufactures more than two dozen types of trailers for all kinds of artists — makeup, wardrobe, productions, even classrooms for child actors. The trailers cost as much as $2 million to make and rent for up to $10,000 a week, though most are built for between $80,000 and $200,000. These days, the company is run by Waggoner's two sons, Beau and Jason, with Jason's wife, Molly, as chief designer. The three joke that sometimes their family venture is a bit of a family feud. "Jason and Beau have very different personalities, a little Oscar and Felix," said Molly. "It's good enough for a reality show." Throughout it all, Lyle kept up his acting career up to 2005, according to imdb.com, when he played Jack on one episode of "The War at Home" TV series. MEET THE FAMILY BEAU WAGGONER - HEAD OF MANUFACTURING "I started 27 years ago with my father," said Beau. "My father didn't put me into a position, I had to earn the position." Beau started out washing trailers, then repairing them, "and then a position came open where I was in charge of sanitation, which I did for seven years, which was pretty interesting ... my nickname was Ty-D-Beau." Beau began studying architecture and basically taught himself design, and he eventually became head of manufacturing, a job he attacks with passion. JASON WAGGONER - HEAD OF MARKETING Jason didn't start out at Star Waggons. His career took him into the oil business and banking, before coming to work for his dad in 2002. He recommends anyone going into a family business spend time outside of it first. "It gives you a completely different perspective, and then you can bring things in from the outside that you didn't have." MOLLY WAGGONER - HEAD DESIGNER At first, Molly Waggoner was not impressed with the trailer interiors at her husband's company. "I was thinking, this is where we stay when we go camping, it felt very outdated." Her job was to transform Star Waggons into something a celebrity would feel at home in — installing 15-foot long white couches (which somehow stay clean), special sconces and lamps, frameless glass shower doors ("that's never been done before"). Everyone from J-Lo to Will Smith has slept in a Star Waggon. "This needs to feel like the way they live," Molly said. Her husband, Jason, added, "If they live in a $10 million house, they don't want to go to a $25,000 trailer." YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT'S LEFT BEHIND... "We found a big paper bag full of foam rubber breast enhancements ... falsies," said Lyle Waggoner of one trailer returned after a shoot. "For about a week, everybody in the company had a nice bustline. Even the dog had one on his head." He recalls that Lou Ferrigno's trailer from "The Incredible Hulk" came back with green body paint all over the shower. A professional basketball player needed a higher toilet seat, "and we had to do that for him." Teri Hatcher recommended a redesign for a trailer she planned to use, and Waggoner was at first skeptical, figuring what could she possibly know? "I said, 'Go ahead, whatever makes the artist happy,' " he said with a laugh, "so she came back with a really great design ... it worked out terrific!" SPEAKING OF SPECIAL REQUESTS... Jason Waggoner said the craziest request Star Waggons has ever received came from an unnamed star who wanted a lap pool inside his trailer. "I think they were testing us," he said. However, his team went to work and designed a trailer with an indoor pool. "Then we got a call, 'No, no, no, they're not going to need the swimming pool this time," Jason said. "It's good to know that we have the design for it, just in case." This being Hollywood, you never know when that pool design will come in handy. Making artists happy is what Star Waggons strives for, and it's provided a Hollywood ending for an actor who always preferred working with his hands to working on stage. Lyle Waggoner is most pleased that he created something he has successfully passed on to his children. "They took it to another level that I never thought I would see Star Waggons at," Lyle Waggoner said. "They do all the work, and they send us a check."

EVEN IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC, HOW COULD Y'ALL HAVE MISSED THIS? NBC has given a 13-episode series order to a new Dick Wolf crime drama series starring Christopher Meloni, reprising his “Law & Order: SVU” role as Elliot Stabler. The drama, which marks the actor’s return to the Dick Wolf fold, revolves around the NYPD organized crime unit led by Stabler (Meloni). It is the first show to come out of the massive new five-year, nine-figure, multi-platform deal Wolf signed with Universal Television last month, which includes multiple series commitments. Former “Chicago P.D.” showrunner Matt Olmstead is being eyed as writer-showrunner. Like “Law & Order: SVU,” headlined by Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson, the new drama is set in New York, allowing for potential seamless crossovers with “SVU,” also set at an NYPD unit, and for Benson-Stabler reunions. With their undeniable on-screen chemistry and great rapport on and off the set, Hargitay and Meloni were one of television’s most popular duos for over a decade. During his almost nine years away from “SVU,” Meloni remained close with Hargitay and the Wolf family. In January, the former co-stars appeared together, alongside Wolf, in “The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU” TV special on NBC. It was around that time the press first heard chatter of a potential new Wolf series with Meloni. Had SVU's season not been cut short by the pandemic, the season finale would have involved Elliot's wife & one of his sons, and would have served as his re-introduction. I'm sure there will be a few cross-overs with SVU, but that's NOT the cross-over I'm interested in seeing... As we all know, Elliot is the long-lost half-brother of Bonnie Plunkett, of CBS's MOM. They had the same mother: Here's Bonnie with her mother, Shirley Stabler: And here's Elliot with his mother, Bernadette Stabler: My theory is that Shirley Bernadette Stabler was so overcome with guilt and shame about abandoning Bonnie at a fire house when she was four that she fled cross-country and tried to re-invent herself as Bernadette Shirley Stabler, and that's when she met Elliot's dad. Of course, once she tired of Elliot's dad, she fled cross-country again... wait until Elliot finds out he also has a younger half-brother, Ray Stabler, shown here in the scene in which he & Bonnie first found out about each other: Considering that Olivia lost her own long-lost half-sibling earlier this season, it's gonna be bittersweet for her when she finds out about Elliot's new expanded family. BTW, IMHO... the SVU episode with Bernadette Shirley Stabler was the best in the show's history. He should have had at least an EMMY nomination... maybe his half-sister can give him one of her SIX awards.

Honor Blackman, 94, passed away peacefully at her home recently. Not Covid-related.

I think he's doing the show from home, like everyone else these days. 10PM Fridays on BBC America. A hilarious clip: