Your Mental Sorbet: Mary Poppins Quits with Kristen Bell

Here is another "Mental Sorbet" that we could use to momentarily forget about those things that leave a bad taste in our mouths.

Mary Poppins (Kristen Bell) is working for minimum wage, and really needs a raise.

Mary Poppins Quits with Kristen Bell from Funny Or Die 

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Tony Figueroa

Michael Gleason, plus Recently Canceled Network Shows: Next on TVC

Television producer Michael Gleason and author Eddie Shapiro will join us on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing July 23-28 at the following times and stations:

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Best known as the co-creator and executive producer of the long-running private eye series Remington Steele, Michael Gleason’s career in television also spans the genres of Westerns, comedy, made for TV movies, and miniseries, including such shows as Maverick, Peyton Place, Rawhide,Diagnosis Murder, Cannon, McCloud, Marcus Welby, M.D., The Six Million Dollar Man, Nash Bridges, Lois and Clark, Diagnosis Murder, Rich Man, Poor Man: Book Two and Sword of Justice.

Michael recently published his first novel, Working Dirty, a private eye story set in a prison that also has some of the elements that made Remington Steele famous. We’ll talk about that, and more, when Michael Gleason joins us in our second hour.

Also this week: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen will join us as we take a look at recently canceled network shows, as well as viewer reaction to the series finale of How I Met Your Mother. Plus: a replay of our conversation with author Eddie Shapiro (Nothing Like a Dame) about Broadway legend Elaine Stritch.

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Archives: Show No. 239 with guests Barry Livingston and Dwayne Epstein

Show No. 239 with guests Barry Livingston and Dwayne Epstein


Original Airdate: Week of July 9-14, 2014


First hour: Ed welcomes Dwayne Epstein, author of Lee Marvin: Point Blank, a comprehensive biography that reveals the sensitive soul that was behind the persona of the Academy Award-winning actor. 

Second hour: Ed welcomes actor Barry Livingston, Ernie Douglas on My Three Sons and one of the cast members of Jersey Boys, the critically acclaimed biopic directed by Clint Eastwood about Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Also in this hour: Greg Ehrbar on Shout! Factory’s recent DVD release of The Bobby Darin Show, and Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen with a look at the legislation that was passed following the 1989 stalking-related murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer.

This Week in Television History: July 2014 PART IV

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As always, the further we go back in Hollywood history, the more that fact and legend become intertwined. It's hard to say where the truth really lies.

July 21, 1924

Jesse Donald "Don" Knotts is born. 

The comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show (a role which earned him five Emmy Awards), 

and as landlord Ralph Furley on the television sitcom Three’s Company in the 1980s.

July 23, 1984

Miss America 1984 Vanessa Williams (The first black Miss America) resigns ten months into her reign.

She received an anonymous phone call stating that nude photos of her taken by photographer Tom Chiapel prior to her pageant days had surfaced. Williams believed the photographs were private and had been destroyed. Days later, Bob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse, announced that his magazine would publish the photos in their September 1984 issue, and paid Chiapel for the rights to them without Williams' consent. After days of media frenzy and sponsors threatening to pull out of the upcoming 1985 pageant, Williams felt pressured by Miss America Pageant officials to resign.

The title subsequently went to first-runner up, African-American Suzette Charles. In early September 1984, Williams filed a $500 million lawsuit against Chiapel and Guccione. According to a Williams family representative, she eventually dropped the suit to avoid further legal battles choosing to move on with her life. Williams is quoted as saying "the best revenge is success."
Although she resigned from fulfilling the duties of a current Miss America, she was allowed to keep the bejeweled crown and scholarship money and is officially recognized by the Miss America Organization today as "Miss America 1984" and Suzette Charles as "Miss America 1984b."

To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".

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Tony Figueroa