Groundbreaking TV with Tom Snyder

When many of the younger people around me heard that TV host Tom Snyder had died they looked at me with a totally blank stare. They had absolutely no idea who he was or what he meant to the evolution of television into what we’re watching today. Tom Snyder was a pioneer in late night [...]

Death plays chess with Ingmar Bergman, Death Wins

Being a Woody Allen film fan, I can say I saw spoofs of Ingmar Bergman films before I was able to actually see one of this brilliant directors works. For 30 years and more, Ingmar Bergman, the dominant Swedish artist in cinema and theatre, brought to his work an intensely personal vision, shot through with [...]

Cat Predicts Deaths At Hospice

My daughter has had over 62 surgeries and everytime she comes home our cat seems to know she needs that extra attention. It is funny how animals have a hidden knowledge of when someone needs that special care. Now I have found out about Oscar the cat. He seems to have an uncanny knack for [...]

Weekly Tabloid Abducted By Elvis Zombies From Outer Space

Does anyone remember why we are at war with Iraq? If you don’t it was revealed to possess a time tunnel capable of facilitating time travel. Even though the regular media called it a weapon of mass destruction – many of us knew the real reason for the war. If you never knew that was [...]

PODCAST: Charles Lane -The Face Is Familiar

DIRECT DOWNLOAD: Charles Lane Charles Lane, the prolific character actor whose name was little known but whose crotchety persona and roles in hundreds of films made him recognizable to generations of moviegoers took his Final Taxi at 102. Lane, whose career spanned more than 60 years, appeared in such film classics as “It‘s a Wonderful [...]

Star Trek dwarf buried at home 33 years after death.

At 6 PM every night in the mid-70’s before the primetime shows came on, our local TV channel would air the syndicated “Star Trek.” I would make sure my homework was done so I could watch these older shows of Captain Kirk and Spock. The next day we would gather at school and talk about [...]

The face is familiar but not the name: Charles Lane

I was floored when I found out that character actor Charles Lane had taken the Final Taxi this week. Not because of his death but that he had lived so long. He as 102. He was the oldest living actor in the US. ( The oldest actor is Dutch actor Johannes Heesters who is 103 [...]

PODCAST: The Last Voyage of Sinbad

Direct Download: Kerwin Mathews Kerwin Mathews, who earned a niche in film history as the handsome hero who battled a Cyclops, a dragon and a sword-wielding skeleton in the 1958 fantasy classic “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,” has taken his Final Taxi. Mathews was also in “The Devil at 4 O’clock” with Spencer Tracy and [...]

Nursery rhymes are dying off

 When I was child my mom would sing all kind of songs to me. Some were gospel or folk songs she grew up with and others were nursery rhymes. I can still hear her singing “Hush little baby don’t say a word, Daddy’s gonna buy you a mockingbird..” I did my share of taking care [...]

Toymaker Jack Odell rolls out

One of my favorite toys as a child was a Matchbox car Batmobile. Our backyard had an old Elm Tree that had roots coming out of the ground. I would dig under the roots and make a little “bat-cave” for the small auto to barrel out of. I had little soldiers that Batman would run [...]