Ever since Fox network acquired the rights to the World Series, the Treehouse of Terror (aka The Simpson’s Halloween Special) has been pushed to the first weekend of November. The annual episode is actually three terrifying yarns told to send chills through the hearts of audiences. Ironically, my favorite to date is the original, particularly […]
I don’t know what kept me from seeing The Incredible Hulk when it was in theatres last summer. Maybe it was the fear of being disappointed a la the original film. More probably, it was the fact that I was in a show and was really busy, because I read some reviews and got excellent
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Can you believe that the Smurf’s are 50 years old and will soon be making a big comeback? They were officially created in 1958 by a Belgian gentleman named Peyo. There is going to be a new feature length motion picture as well as a new animated series. However, gone will be the hand painted
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One of highlights of The Office outside of the main plot is the dynamic exhibited by Jim and Dwight. I just roll with each scheme that Jim cooks up to get Dwight week after week. Whether it be placing his desk essentials in jello (Episode One), playing a game of Hot and Cold for him
Ok… so this past week has not be fraught with hilarity… some fun, but a lot of downness (I KNOW a word that is not ), So, to cheer things up, I found a list of 24 quotable quotes from television… not from movies now. I’ll start off and let’s see how many we can
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Nanu, Nanu…Tonight, I was treated to a blast from my childhood. There was a mini-marathon of the series that launched the career of Robin Williams. Mork & Mindy was one of several series that spun off of Happy Days. Mork is an alien from the planet Ork who was sent to Earth to observe the
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I am all for the reinterpretation of a popular character over time to make him more appealing to the masses, but I have found one such instance a bit beyond what I consider plausible. I speak of the up-coming 8th season of Smallville. It not only seems that most of the traditional Superman canon is
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For a period of no less than four years, a production team has been attempting to create a musical version of one of the best-loved book and television series of all time: Little House on the Prairie . Before the series ran in the mid-1970s to ’80s, it was a collection of successful novels that
In the late 80s, one comedy kept senior citizens glued to their televisions on Saturday night. The Golden Girls featured 3 mature ladies living together under one roof. Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche were the three main characters. However, it was the wise-cracking Sophia (the mother of Dorothy) who stole every scene she was in. Ironically,
The television series Get Smart was created by Mel Brooks in the 1960s as a spoof of the James Bond phenomenon. Don Adams played the bumbling Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) to the much more competent Agent 99 (played by Barbara Feldon). Originally, 99 was to be Agent 69; however, as many would guess, the name
