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Hal Block was a regular panelist on What's My Line from 1950 to 1953. He started his career as a joke writer in Chicago and once toured overseas with Bob Hope. He was not well liked by the other WML panelists because of his lack of dignity. Years later Bennett Cerf referred to Block as 'a clod.' WML producer Gil Fates recalled, 'Hal was a strange man. He was rumored to have come from a very wealthy family in Chicago, where he wrote material for some of the standout, stand-up comics in the business. He was stocky with curly black hair, heavy lips, and rather bulging eyes. He wore bow ties, stood around with his hands clasped behind his back, and smiled most of the time. He seemed completely uninhibited by either sensitivity or propriety. He referred to Ethel Barrymore as 'you doll' and planted big wet kisses on both Sister Kenny and Helen Hayes as they passed down the panel to say goodbye. For our deodorant sponsor he gratuitously coined the phrase, 'Make your armpit a charmpit.'
Hal was totally oblivious to the panel's distaste for his jokes or to the icy correctness with which John Daly would greet one of his appalling observations.
'You're the prettiest nun I ever saw,' he once complimented a Dominican Sister in full habit.
'So what was so wrong?' he asked in defense. 'She was a real doll.'
You couldn't teach the meaning of good taste to Hal any more than StarKist could teach it to Charlie the Tuna. Hal's relationship to the show was much like that of the small-town, stay-at-home wife to her rising young corporate executive husband. Hal had served his purpose when the program was young, but now that we were a class product his gaucheries were no longer tolerable.' In March 1953 Block was quietly replaced on the WML panel by the much more urbane Steve Allen. Block died, pretty much forgotten, from injuries he suffered in an apartment fire, in 1981 at age 67.
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Added: 17th November 2009
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In the seventies, Casablanca Records were great at marketing one of their most unique looking groups, I am speaking now about KISS. The album "Love Gun" was recorded by the hidden personality filled makeup band that had its influences from American 1960s rock n' roll. On immediate release in the summer of 1977, this album was 1,000,000 copies store bought. That is called 'platinum' in American music business unit sales. The band were at the height of their success with this album. "Love Gun" sold more than a fair number of times, eventually reaching far beyond triple platinum digits. Some complained that this KISS band was just a gimmick, but eventually KISS had proved their critics wrong; simply showing that they were world re-known in a few short years. Critics put this band in the same category as a toy. Doesn't sound very dignified when the group was as big as anything at the time on television or produced on a movie screen. The group today has not gone into obscurity like so many others have ended. Still together, and entertaining new and old fans in today's entertainment market. Casablanca were the happiest in the mid 70s with a roster of other bands/singers they quickly signed, one of them was Donna Summer; a woman who was known for high-quality dance hits. Success came quickly with signings to the company, this was thanks to the president of Casablanca Records, a man known as Neil Bogart. With KISS, he was convinced that they would be huge. The marketing techniques from the company worked on most every occasion. Many parents freaked once they saw the marketing techniques that were being used to sell this band to the youth of the world. Hey, "oldschool" is in with me 24/7.
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Added: 18th November 2009
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Remember '84? She didn't last long enough for many of us in the eyes of that year.
Brought out to the masses with thanks from another individual. Listen to the explanation.
We all know who that was. Very famous.
Both associated closely after a chance meeting at a nineteen-eighty-two celeb presentation.
The self-styled lady really thought she was what he was looking for. He began adding others to a new dream concept he wanted badly. Making sure that each dressed alike. Sexy and very dirty. The idea about his new business venture was that they would be known for having suggestive content in their words. Both her and the discoverer were romantically together for quite a while.
Tele-critics were surprised to see her a number of times where she continued to surprise viewers with willful sexiness.
Eventually, the Canadian decided to leave the entire association and go solo with herself only. As it had turned out with her former group of singers, there was a second effort released, but it was known to be a rare find in stores. You had to be a genuine fan to get your hands on a copy.
In nineteen-eighty-four, and nineteen-eighty-six the lady brought out two solos, both were popular enough to get on the ever important chart. Singles were brought out from her till 1985. She made appearances in film and television; one of the them, a 1987 episode of "Miami Vice" that was worth watching.
Every episode of that show was well-made.
With each year, fans wanted more from the ex-model now performer.
In nineteen-eighty-eight she did a recording for the flick "Action Jackson" that she appeared in as well, then for personal reasons left the business for good. Her stage-name is never mentioned. Religion has become her focus.
In the appearance, we have a once "famous" Californian radio/television personality. Do you know his name? Take note of the professional dancers around this lady. One of them is really great with his legs. I've never seen anybody move like that.
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Added: 19th November 2009
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Just in case you’ve forgotten, plenty of small boys were grounded for scaring the girls with these American Greetings produced rubber toys in 1985. That's right, the recognized card greeting company was behind all this ball activity. They had the license rights for various Madball merchandise packaged for marketing to lively children.
They quickly became a fad as boys aquired numerous Madballs in the nationwide stores. A total of just under twenty were released featuring the outlandish forming characters. None were alike when it came to their color and name.
Since their fun intoduction, there has been a much larger set of Madballs brought out that are the size of an adult-sized sports ball.
The kind you would kick or toss along a field.
Madballs success lead to more merchandise releases, these included numerous Madballs stickers, shampoo bottles, kids comics, and this was just the start of it. Anything the company could think of they released without a known complaint.
In 1987, a "Madballs" cartoon series was brought out that even had created more of these gross characters for Saturday morning showings. Have you seen them around recently? There has been a newly created Madballs series brought out to restart the toys past popularity for the next generation of of boys. Another company has restated the fad of fun with American Greetings; now with new faces and the classic 80s characters, all ready for abuse by children in 2009. Ready? Prepare yourself for an amazing Madballs commercial.
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Added: 21st November 2009
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Nat King Cole's 1948 recording of the song was a major hit -
"Nature Boy" is a song composed by Eden Ahbez, published in 1947.
The song tells a fantasy of a "strange enchanted boy... who wandered very far" only to learn that "the greatest thing... was just to love and be loved in return".
Eden Ahbez was american songwriter whose lifestyle in California was INFLUENTIAL on the hippie movement...
George Alexander Aberle born in Brooklyn, New York in 1908 - recording artist from the 1940s-1960s
This song was written by Eden Ahbez, one of the strangest songwriters of the pre-Hippie era. He was a poet, but more accurately a proto-Hippie, choosing to wear long hair, a full beard and long, white, flowing garments that promoted a Christ-like appearance. He lived in Griffith Park in Los Angeles and ate fruit, vegetables and nuts. THIS "NATURE BOY" (in my words)claimed to have been raised in an orphanage and to have crossed the US on foot 8 times before age 35. He moved to Los Angeles in the '40s, lived on 3 dollars a week
Ahbez implored Nat King Cole's manager to look at his manuscript of "Nature Boy." Cole liked the Yiddish melody, and the lyrics and added it to his act. It was well received so Cole decided to record it. One problem: Cole and Capitol Records could not find Ahbez in order to secure the publishing rights. Finally they located Ahbez, camped beneath the first L in the "Hollywood" sign.
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Added: 22nd November 2009
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Remember this short-life series from September 1982? A fast-action program that only lasted until June of the following year, this due to the high cost of filming per episode. It had just over twenty shows which dealt with being in the locale of the South Pacific.
With "Tales of the Gold Monkey", the ABC series starred Stephen Collins as a man who was just as Indiana Jones lived.
'Tales of the Gold Monkey' was "on and off" in the seventies in getting produced for television, but all changed when Indiana Jones came out on theater screens. Immediately, the television executives who knew of its premise were giving the show a go with the success of the box office winner. You can see that this series is was very much alike of the first Indiana Jones movie.
The delay in production at first was that it looked too old-fashioned for the Star Wars genration. "Tales of the Gold Monkey" will be released in North America sometime in 2010 on DVD.
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Added: 24th November 2009
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Can you remember when these were in the paper daily?
Love is... is a comic strip created by New Zealand artist Kim Grove in the late 1960s-
Lets try to remember some or make up some more of Our own.
Here is one-
LOVE IS... Is like finding PURE GOLD ***
Join Me and ADD Your Favorites
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Added: 24th November 2009
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In the spring of 1944 the Allies were poised to land in German-occupied France. The only uncertainty was where and when. Tight security over the enormous operation was paramount. (One American general was demoted and sent back to the Unites States for merely speculating on an invasion date at a social gathering.) Accordingly, British Intelligence was aghast when several key code names linked to the D-Day invasion began appearing as answers in the Daily Telegraph crossword puzzles in the month before the June 6 invasion. The code names of all five beaches (Gold, Sword, Juno, Omaha, Utah), the portable harbors (Mulberry), the naval support (Neptune), and the entire operation (Overlord) appeared! Agents questioned Leonard Dawe, a 54-year-old local schoolmaster, who had submitted the puzzles. Dawe didn't know what the fuss was about. He told the agents the words simply fit the puzzles. For years the incident was regarded as a remarkable coincidence. However, in 1984, one of Dawe's former students at the Strand School shed more light on the subject. Ronald French, who was 14 in 1944, said Dawe routinely had his students fill in crossword grids as a mental exercise. Dawe kept the especially good grids, wrote accompanying clues, and submitted them to the Daily Telegraph. The boys often socialized with the Allied troops stationed nearby and likely acquired the words by overhearing their conversations. There is no evidence that Dawe was a German agent, nor is there any evidence that the Germans benefitted from this odd security breach.
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Added: 25th November 2009
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ON October 9, 1970 Christine Baranski, Slept over who's house for a Slumber Party? *HINT -She really liked playing "Truth or Dare"!...DO YOU REMEMBER THAT????
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Added: 25th November 2009
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Dorothy DeBorba was a regular in the early talking period of the Our Gang comedies. Recognizable by her Mary Pickford-type curls and hair ribbons, DeBorba was sometimes referred to as 'Echo' because she liked to repeat other characters' comments--or at least try. Years later DeBorba opined that the boys in the troupe always got the best lines. Yet she uttered some of the funniest lines in the long history of the Our Gang comedies. DeBorba's famous dialogue occurs in 'Love Business' when she tries to repeat the romantic lines lovesick Chubby was practising. Chubby: 'Oh, my darling, can you hear the pleas in my whispers?'
Dorothy: 'Darling, I can hear the fleas in your whiskers.'
Chubby: 'If love is like a rose, I will pick my rose in a bud.'
Dorothy: 'If love is like a rose, I will stick my nose in the mud.'
Chubby: 'My heart is filled with joy. I want to trip and dance.'
Dorothy: 'My heart is filled with joy. I want to rip my pants.' DeBorba appeared in 24 Our Gang comedies from 1930 to 1933. She died from emphysema at age 85 on June 2, 2010.
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Added: 26th November 2009
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