Showing posts with label Castle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Castle. Show all posts

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Breaking News: Mannix Marathon on Cloo until 6 am Eastern Sunday


CBS-TV - Mannix  (1969) Intro credits. 
Music composed by Lalo Schifrin.
http://youtu.be/vyZL_3bxD68


Breaking News: Mannix Marathon on Cloo until 6 a.m. Eastern Sunday, DirecTV Channel 308. Be there! 


Back in the day before we all knew what CSIs and mass spectrometers were, all you needed when you were in a real tight pinch was to call your ex-Army pal from Korea out in LA named Joe Mannix.
Mannix would get us the answers we need!


Mannix wasn't just a crime-fighting gumshoe, a top-shelf detective with a keen eye for clues, beautiful women and people who got the shaft from the system, but someone who wasn't afraid a of a fight.
Joe Mannix also had a deeply ingrained sense of integrity and righting wrongs.
Remember that, integrity?


Joe Mannix for Broward Sheriff, Al Lamberti for Media Photo Ops!



Longer version of theme song.
http://youtu.be/mznUMYY7YC8



Yes, strings, woodwinds and brass in perfect harmony!
It's why Lalo Schifrin was a genius.

http://www.televisiontunes.com/Mannix_-_Long.html


If you play the extended version above now for any half-normal kid in elementary school -like one of my teachers once did at Fulford Elementary in North Miami Beach, back when the show was still on the air- I absolutely guarantee you that their eyes will light up.



rook88 video: Castle like Mannix. October 16, 2010.
http://youtu.be/nMntqvijI-Q


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http://www.schifrin.com/

Lalo Schifrin samples: http://dougpayne.com/samples.htm

http://www.cloo.com/

http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/castle

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Proof positive that no photo of Alyssa Milano is without its magnetic CHARM. Not that we EVER doubted it!

Above, Minnesota Vikings Women's Laser Cut 3/4 Sleeve Pullover Hoodie
Touch by Alyssa Milano http://www.ijcool.com

Behind the scenes at ABC-TV's hit show Castle, with
Alyssa Milano:




Alyssa's appearance back in January, A Rose for Everafter, was only my favorite of the season. Wow!
You can watch the episode here in its entirety:
http://abc.go.com/watch/castle/SH559040/VD5569242/a-rose-for-everafter

It's easy to see in mere moments why Alyssa's clever and witty photo site has become one of my personal favorite social media additions this year: http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/

A couple of seconds to take, a few minutes of amusement & delight!

http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/self-portrait-entitled-really-freaking-bored
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/my-new-favorite-photo-app-for-the-iphone-pict
At the 2010 MLB All-Star Game in Anaheim
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/this-is-what-i-am-doing-right-now-picture
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/omg-a-gift-from-asg-fanfest-from-chloroformda
(That's the Roberto Clemente bobble-head in her hands.)


http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/asg-hi-picture-from-the-field
and http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/asg-picture-from-the-dugout
Good morning, this is your courtesy wake-up photo:
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/good-morning-my-hubby-just-sent-me-this-pictu
"Who can turn the world on with her smile?"
http://www.alyssa.com/touch-clothing/new-nfl-touch-ad/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCL3B5LgUCo


http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/photo-from-the-2010-touchbyam-nfl-commercial


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8MWdNG3wsw


So, you're asking yourself, why did I run the Mary Tyler Moore Show videos here of the famous MTM theme song,
"Love Is All Around" by Sonny Curtis, in the middle of Alyssa's Touch NFL apparel photos?
The purple #10 Fran Tarkenton Vikings jersey Mary wears!
(At 0:24 while washing her Ford Mustang)

Always one of my favorite parts of the opening credits!

Compare and contrast with Alyssa at the top of the blog, or here:
Above, Miami Dolphins Full Zip Velour Cheer JacketTouch by Alyssa Milano http://www.fansedge.com/
Trust me, I knew some of them and the "Dolphin Dolls" were never like this!

New York Times
Suiting Up in Jerseys Suitable for Women
By Tanzina Vega
August 25, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/business/media/26adco.html


However strange it may seem to actually read in print, the more you pay attention to such things, the more you know that in some very fundamental ways, the current reality is that Alyssa intuitively "gets" the new media universe MUCH better than the McClatchy folks running the Miami Herald and the Tribune Company people running the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. That's our reality.

CNN
What's new with Twitter?
August 2010
Jessica Yellin interviews Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/living/2010/08/09/ym.jack.dorsey.twitter.square.cnn.html


http://www.alyssa.com/
http://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano

http://alyssa.mlblogs.com/


Touch by Alyssa Milano:
http://www.nflshop.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=3294500
and http://www.nflshop.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=3743308&ab=HP_Include_Touch




http://www.fandalia.com/

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Shallow End of Pool for Miami TV News; ABC-TV's Castle & Susan Sullivan

Last night at the same exact time on their
11 o'clock newscasts, Channels 4 and 10,
i.e.
CBS4 and Local10, each ran stories
on women having surgery, plastic and
laser.

Sadly for viewers with a public policy
bent, these sorts of stories are the
longstanding bread-and-butter of
Miami TV stations, but are also part
of the reason that so many Men
aged 25-49 find it so easy to forgo
the local newscasts at 11 p.m. and
switch to
ESPN's SportsCenter,
because they know from experience
that there will likely be at least one
if not two dopey, chick-centric stories
that center on women with some very
serious self-worth problems and
high-degree of shallowness.

That there are so many women like
that living in South Florida is
NOT
exactly Breaking News, of course.
What is is the number who honestly
think that anyone else cares about
their self-worth issues or their
flabby arms or whatever.

Leave those private discussions to
your family and friends, please.
The rest of us just don't care,
comprende?



Screenshot I took 10/5/09 of
Local10's teaser during ABC-TV's Castle.

Some free advice for the female reporters assigned
to these stories that always center on somewhat
vain and self-centered women with more money
than sense, who are only too happy to have TV
cameras follow them into their doctor's office.

The next time you get stuck on one of these stories,
right before you close, look at the subjects and say:
"You're not alone because of your looks,
you're
alone because of your superficial
personality."


Think of it as your doing a good deed for the
larger South Florida community.
Because you are!


ABC-TV's Castle is one of my guilty TV
pleasures.
I'm happy to see that in its second season,
airing opposite
CSI Miami, the show
really seems to be getting better and more
nuanced, as the writers become more
confident of what the characters would
say or do in various circumstances.
http://abc.go.com/shows/castle



For me, last night's episode, Inventing
the Girl
, was the best effort yet.
It featured a great back-and forth volley
between co-stars Susan Sullivan and
Nathan Fillion sitting on the sofa of Rick's
great apartment, perhaps the best-looking
living room on TV.



At one point, after talking about her grudging
acceptance of the fact that she'd been cast in
a Broadway show as the grandmother and
not as the fetching ingenue she once might've
been, Rick throws her a lifeline by saying
that she can now show "wisdom" on stage,

Martha suddenly pulls out from behind the
couch this 8 x 10 b/w glossy of herself,
below, which nearly caused me to jump off
the couch from a severe case of déjà vu.


Screenshot I took 10/5/09 of Susan Sullivan during ABC-TV's Castle.

When I was living at
Briscoe Quad
my first two years at IU, I had a male
friend who was a huge, huge fan of
Susan Sullivan,
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838360/
who was then a star on
CBS-TV's hit
Falcon Crest.

He had this same EXACT photo of
her in his
dorm room!

If I remember correctly, I think he'd seen
her on Broadway before or something.

I mention this because of both the shock
of seeing that photo I recognize pop-up
on my TV screen completely out-of-the-blue,
and also because my friend was probably
one of a handful of persons I knew at IU
who was hip to whatever was happening
on Broadway, plus the scuttlebutt.

In his case, it was the result of his having
parents who were ardent live theater fans
who saw everything, no matter how obscure
or Off-Off Broadway.

He knew what actor and actress had
played what character in what show
-or been an understudy- as a result
of growing-up with a treasure trove of
Playbills in his parents living room,
arranged alphabetically within the year
the show had opened.

I was so envious listening to him talk
about it and the shows he'd seen, while
I'd had to make do with cast albums.

(If blogging had existed back then,
I have no doubt that his parents
would've surely had one of
the most
popular and influential -and
profitable- blogs
or websites around
on the subject of
Broadway,
on-stage and off, including
financing,
because they quite literally seemed

to know everyone who was anyone.)

Listening to him describe their collection
of souvenirs sounded a lot like me and my
perfectly preserved collection of Dolphins,
Hurricanes, Floridians, Gatos/Strikers/
Orioles game programs, going back to
1968, complete with used game tickets.

In a sense, my friend was sort of like
the theater version of me, and my keen
knowledge of American sports and
sports trivia, that often swamped others
who were older who thought they knew
a thing or two.
The benefit of having a very, very good
memory.

FYI: In real life,
Susan Sullivan is
married to psychologist and author
Dr. Connell Cowan, who co-authored
with Dr. Melvyn Kinder, only two
of THE best books I ever read,

W
omen Men Love, Women Men Leave
and
Smart Women/Foolish Choices.
I actually bought copies for friends when
they came out in paperback.

To end this unexpected tangent on Broadway,
The Jackson 5 from the early '80's
performing
"Corner of the Sky" from
Pippin, a wonderful song from their
Skywriter album,

Along with a host of other songs,
my friends on the floor and I played this
a lot on Saturday mornings and afternoons
at IU on game days, with our stereo
speakers propped up in the windows
facing towards Assembly Hall and the
football stadium, so fans downstairs on
17th Street walking over there for a
game could get in the spirit of things.