AMOS ‘N’ ANDY SHOW, THE (1951-3) 78 EPISODES Alvin Childress as Amos These thirty-minute episodes usually centred on ‘The Kingfish’s’ ‘get rich’ schemes that often involved duping his brothers in the ‘Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge’. Andy was the most gullible and […]
Rosie O’Donnell In 2006, Rosie O’Donnell donated $5,700,000 to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, including Renaissance Village (a temporary shelter for Katrina victims), day care centres, a rehabilitation centre in San Antonio, Texas, and a Habitat for Humanity subdivision in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Not enough is reported about the generous […]
ROB LOWE (1964 – ) ‘When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to be in your teens and twenties. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you’re the greatest person who ever was, and […]
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1962) This particular version of the happenings aboard the British ship Bounty in 1787; starring Marlon Brando as the mutinous Lt. Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as the irascible Lieutenant/ Captain Bligh, had to be one of the most unhappy movie sets in the history […]
WRANGLER (1960) 6 EPISODES This extremely short-lived western series was the summer replacement for a musical series, The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956). Wrangler’s only claim to fame, miniscule as that claim may have been, is that it was the very first […]
Martin Sheen Martin Sheen is now in his eighties. He has been arrested more than seventy times, mainly for liberal protests. He was one of twenty-two people arrested for crossing over a line established by the US Air Force, in an anti-militarization protest at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base […]
There has been no shortage of situation comedies since television in the USA, Great Britain and Australia began. This segment will look at every show that went to air between 1949 and 1999. Assessments will vary according to the amount of information […]
ANGIE DICKINSON (1931 – ) ‘When I started shooting Police Woman (1974), someone asked me if I had ever played a sleuth before. I said, ‘Yes, many times.’ I thought they were asking me if I had ever played a slut. I didn’t know what a sleuth was.’ ‘My […]
WICHITA TOWN (1959-60) 26 EPISODES The model for this series had already been laid out in shows such as Gunsmoke, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and Lawman, so it was anything but unique. However, it did have the services of popular western star Joel McCrea […]
NASTASSJA KINSKI (1961 – ) The daughter of disturbed actor Klaus Kinski entered this world via Berlin, Germany in 1961. Klaus ditched her mother for another woman and young Nastassja soon found herself supporting both her parents at thirteen, partly through her appearing topless at that age in […]
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