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Elspode 06-15-2006 11:52 PM

No worries...I haven't been doing a very good job of that myself, lately.

disenchanted 06-16-2006 02:15 AM

Page 16, and yet nobody's mentioned Jim Henson.

wolf 06-21-2006 12:42 AM

We're all still in such deep distress that we can't talk about it.

lookout123 06-21-2006 03:56 AM

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Page 16, and yet nobody's mentioned Jim Henson.
my neighbor's dead? guess i won't have to return the weedwacker.

lookout123 06-23-2006 11:05 PM

Aaron Spelling has left the building. Like it or not, the man has impacted every TV owner's life.

wolf 06-24-2006 12:44 AM

I am woman enough to admit that I liked The Mod Squad.

But I was very disappointed when I caught one of their scripts being reused for an episode of Charlie's Angels.

(I don't remember much of the plot, but it had something to do with this little kid, and him running away. In one of the shows he runs to these White Swan Boats on a lake, and in the other it was the White Horse or Unicorn on the Merry-Go-Round at an extremely similar park. Other than that, word for word sameness. That is the day that I become disillusioned by television. Well, it was either that or the day that I found out that the guy playing Longstreet wasn't really blind.)

lookout123 06-24-2006 01:38 AM

when the not-quite-ex was on 5 months of strict bedrest trying to hold in little lookout we were sooooo incredibly broke. i literally lived on peanut butter sandwiches. we always found money to pay the cable bill because she was stuck there 24/7. anyway, we got hooked on 90210 reruns. cheesy yes, but good memories.

Beestie 06-24-2006 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by lookout123
we got hooked on 90210 reruns. cheesy yes, but good memories.

Same here. I kept the last episode on VHS. I personally did not care for the show but watching the reruns brings back some good times. Funny how fast time goes. That was seven years ago and I have no idea where 7 years went. My son turns 7 in December and I can not remember big chunks of those 7 years.

I remember going to Six Flags when I was a kid. I would wait for over an hour for the "Big" roller coaster. Then it would be over. And I could scarcely remember it. I didn't like that then and I don't like it now.

Spexxvet 06-24-2006 08:53 AM

Good times......gooooood times.

Elspode 06-24-2006 09:33 AM

Spelling made a lot of crap, but he made very, very *popular* crap, which made him a very, very rich man.

I don't think you can even put out that much crap without a lot of very hard work and keen insights. He was a sharp cookie, indeed, and a bonafide TV legend.

xoxoxoBruce 06-24-2006 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode
Spelling made a lot of crap, ~snip

Tori?;)

Elspode 06-24-2006 01:33 PM

I wasn't going to reference her directly, but...yes, Tori, too. :rolleyes:

Beestie 06-24-2006 02:44 PM

Spelling also made Gilligan's Island which was about the only bright spot for an eight/ nine-year old me (1968-9) during a particularly "challenging" period of growing up.

richlevy 06-25-2006 08:26 AM

Ok, this is an odd fit for this category, but I like to stir things up sometimes.

From Reuters
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Marshall, legal adversary of Nicole Smith, dies
Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:01 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - E. Pierce Marshall, who battled Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith in the courts over his father's vast oil fortune, died unexpectedly this week, his family said on Friday.
The 67-year-old died after a "brief and extremely aggressive infection," the family said in a statement from Dallas.
The death in 1995 of his father, J. Howard Marshall, triggered a long-running legal battle with Smith, who married the oil tycoon a year earlier after meeting him while working as a topless dancer. She was 26 when they married; he was 89.
Marshall was one of the wealthiest men in Texas, worth more than an estimated $1.6 billion. Smith claimed that her husband promised her half of his estate. The son said that more than $6 million in gifts she received was all his father left her.

(snip)

No matter where you stand on whether she deserves the money, you have to admire the guys tenacity. You also have to wonder how being rebuffed by the Supreme Court affected him?

xoxoxoBruce 06-25-2006 02:14 PM

Tenacity? Yes, all the J.R. Ewing clones have that selfish, vindictive, tenacity.:rolleyes:


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