A local Detroit car ad from 1984. My dad is the other guy in the “spot.” At that time, he was an aging ad man and I was a struggling actor. Together, we achieved sheer greatness. You can track the subtlety of my performances even then. pic.twitter.com/Gd6hYGoZ5a
Before Bruce Campbell was a con man in Burn Notice, he was a car salesman for Samson Buick. Even at 25, the actor knew how to command the camera in that 1984 commercial by his father, Charles.
On April 16th, Harry Anderson passed away suddenly, and over the weekend several cast and crew members from Night Court reunited to remember their friend.
Marsha Warfield was the last one to join the cast as a series regular, but it was as though she was there from the beginning of the sitcom. Roz shared some photos of herself with her former co-workers, actors Markie Post aka Christine Sullivan and John Larroquette aka Dan Fielding, and crew members Julie Dresner and Susie Gunter as they reminisced about their buddy. Not Buddy, his father on the courtroom comedy, played by John Astin, but Harry himself.
No other details were shared about their day, but it looks like they remembered Judge Harry T Stone just as he lived his life, with a huge smile. They have all said that the actor, magician and comedian always made them laugh on the set. Just like he always made us laugh on our TV sets.
Before Anderson passed away, I said I really wanted a Night Court revival. Seeing the cast looking all happy together and looking just as good now as they did then makes me think that it would have worked. Too bad, it was never meant to be.
Dolly Parton’s song Coat of Many Colors became a hit Christmas movie on NBC, and now Netflix wants to do the same with eight of her songs.
The singer described the anthology as, “As a songwriter, I have always enjoyed telling stories through my music. I am thrilled to be bringing some of my favorite songs to life with Netflix.” Then she added, “We hope our show will inspire and entertain families and folks of all generations, and I want to thank the good folks at Netflix and Warner Bros. TV for their incredible support.”
We do not know what those eight tunes will be, and she has a huge catalog of singles to choose from. Since her career has spanned over 50 years (not that it shows because she looks better now than she has in the past) and the one I want most is PMS Blues. But I am a woman who can totally relate to it, especially once a month.
Which of her eight songs do you want to see go from the record player to the little screen?
As we know Gordon Ramsay is a Chef and he is always on our televisions, but did you know he recently weighed as much as 270 pounds? I did not see it on Hell’s Kitchen, MasterChef or Master Chef Jr, but, then again, I do not live with him. His wife Tana does and she told her husband, “Little pickers wear bigger knickers.”
That is when he took it seriously, and she took charge. Together, she helped him get down to 220 pounds. Now, as you can see in this Today interview, he is looking as scrumptious as the meals he serves up.
What did he do differently? Instead of eating three big meals, he east five smaller ones. That and exercise.
What was his biggest motivator? His father passed away at 53. Since he is 51, he does not want his four kids to not have them during some of the biggest moments of their lives. He regrets that his dad never ate any of his restaurants.
Now that he is a healthy weight again, he will live long enough to be a grandfather and have completely taken over the whole Fox lineup. Which it seems like he is on his way to doing.
On that note, next week, June 13th, his show 24 hours to Hell & Back debuts, and you are not going to watch Kitchen Nightmares on speed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMAD_tBGccE
Now that Fox has picked up Last Man Standing, a Home Improvement revival is on indefinite hold. But if it were to happen, this is how Patricia Richardson pictures the plotline.
She said, “I thought if HI came back Jill and Tim wouldn’t live in the same house because they’ve separated or divorced. Tim has moved somewhere else and has another talkative neighbor. Getting them back together becomes focus of show. No politics. But we know it’s a metaphor for country.”
Does that sound like something you would watch? I kind of like it and could picture their three sons trying to get them back together.
UPDATE: Patricia Richardson added to her tweet, “It’s important to realize here folks this was just what I had been thinking, how could this happen without Wilson, possibly without Taran( no longer acts) and w/the edge the show had when it was good. It’s not going to happen.Tim always wanted the return of Last Man Standing. HATE the politics.Any idea that an Archie Bunker type person can be smart(?) likeable(?)while being homophobic and/or racist is a stretch.But I love the family/friend dynamics on LMS.The love they all display for each other,that Tim shares with them,is so truthful and beautiful.”
In case you were wondering why they would need a new neighbor, sadly, Earl Hindman, who played Wilson, passed away from lung cancer in 2003.
