October 14, 2007 - October 20, 2007

Snack time! (What's it taste like??)

Posted by Steve Monaco at October 19, 2007 2:48 AM

Joey Bishop, R.I.P.

(No mention if the above was taken before Joey begged to see Uncle Miltie's legendary member or afterward.)

Joey Bishop has died. Who? you ask. Why, you whippersnapper, the man who was the self-described "mouse in the Rat Pack," whose disastrous foray into the '60s talk show scene gave us none other than a young Regis Philbin as sidekick (his youthful, spittle-flying exuberance was mocked by Johnny Carson: "That guy belongs in a home!"), and who made perhaps the first celebrity C&W album. That's who!

Here's a story told to me years ago-- it's "friend of a friend" stuff, so judge it accordingly.

A bookstore clerk in LA recognized a magazine-buying Joey, and told the old comic that he did and (lying) that he enjoyed his work. The dour comedian beamed at him and insisted that the young clerk come to his house for dinner-- that night, in about an hour. The guy goes, and he said that, even though Bishop had a cook, the food couldn't have been worse, and that the two of them ate in complete silence. (He also learned that, whatever it was, Joey had the same meal every night!) Then, when they were finished, the bookstore clerk was invited to Joey's other nightly ritual: going down to his home movie theater and screening a film from his library. The catch: Joey only owned Joey Bishop movies.

That night, he got very lucky and saw A Guide for the Married Man-- it could have been Betsy's Wedding.

Posted by Steve Monaco at October 18, 2007 4:16 PM

Monaco's No-Life Bottom Three-- The Halloween Edition

My favorite holiday! And this year, as always, I'll be enjoying the usual spooky stuff that makes Halloween great, like:

1) The parties!

2) The candy!

3) And best of all, the costumes. This year, I think I'll go as bloody, screaming Steve Wozniak.

Posted by Steve Monaco at October 18, 2007 1:46 PM

Little Larry Craig's favorite storybook

Posted by Steve Monaco at October 15, 2007 3:44 PM

The Monday Movie Quiz #145

That's not from the movie in question (it's in color), but a candid shot of the film's director and two of its three stars, one of whom is probably the Monday Movie Quiz's most featured actor. But we haven't done this one, so I thought we should.

That's it for clues-- any dialogue from this profane and riotous picture would be immediately Google-able, so forget it. But if you think you know the title from the above pic, by all means send me an email by late Sunday night-- if you're right, expect to see your name in next week's soon-to-be-imprisoned winner's circle.

Posted by Steve Monaco at October 15, 2007 1:38 AM

Last week's Movie Quiz winners

More than a few winners confessed to not actually knowing last week's movie in question. "I’ll guess and say -30--- I think the last pic is the dude from Dragnet." It is, indeed, that dude of dudes, auteur and TV icon Jack Webb, in his feature film follow-up to seven years as America's favorite cop, Joe Friday.

Webb wrote, directed, and starred in this 1959 cliche mash-up about the newspaper biz, and it abounds with terse exchanges, perspiring brows (mostly those belonging to Jack's co-star and fellow TV icon, William "Cannon" Conrad), and lectures about the importance of the press. In between the sweating and speechifying, twin breaking-news tragedies unwind involving a little girl in a well and a missing pilot, the latter the grandson of the paper's senior reporter. At the same time, Jack's having a bad night because his wife has adopted a kid he doesn't want, since he's still not over the death of his last one, and she's bringing the boy to the office (in the middle of the night) to meet his new daddy. And meanwhile, Conrad's having the devil's own time with those bongo-playing copy boys!

In other words, all it lacked was a cigarette sponsor.

I'm duly impressed by how many correct answers there were, some even from people who'd seen the movie! So congratulations and a chewing-out from Bill Conrad to the following winners: Wayne Palmer, Thomas Miller, Ron Frigstad, mick, Shannon Blatherwick, Jim Moomey, Mark Gisleson, The Curmudgeon, Bill Hearne, Gene Miller, Bob Redwing, Bill McLaughlin, E. Yarber, Corey Anderson, Nancy Louise Rutherford, Vince Tuss, Donald Greene, Paul Rignell, and Song-Un Lee.

Posted by Steve Monaco at October 14, 2007 10:55 PM

Headline of the week

Stan Lee warned us about Commie femme fatales, but never hipped us to this particular red menace, probably because it's a specialty any girlfriend-free fanboy would kill for:

Rice worried by Putin's broad powers

Seperated at Genesis: Vlad the Super-Impaler and The Watcher

Posted by Steve Monaco at October 14, 2007 1:43 AM

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