I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson.
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Here is another "Mental Sorbet"a little spark of madnessthat we could use to momentarily forget about those things that leave a bad taste in our mouths.
You loved the endless running in high heels in Jurassic World...
Now enjoy them in the entire Jurassic series!
Jurassic World hasn't left the theaters yet, and there's already a trailer for the sequel?? After becoming the fastest film to reach a billion dollars at the box office, the makers of Jurassic World immediately started to create the sequel... fresh off the heels of its predecessor.
Actress and author Kathy Coleman and Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Jymn Magon will join us on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing July 22-27 at the following times and venues:
WROM Radio Detroit, MI Wednesday 7/22 8pm ET, 5pm PT 2am ET, 11pm PT Sunday 7/26 8pm ET, 5pm PT 2am ET, 11pm PT Click on the Listen Live button at WROMRadio.net
KHDN AM-1230 Billings, MT part of GLN Radio Network Friday 7/24 3pm ET, Noon PT Saturday 7/25 6pm ET, 3pm PT Monday 7/26 3pm ET, Noon PT
Share-a-Vision Radio San Francisco Bay Area Friday 7/24 7pm ET, 4pm PT 10pm ET, 7pm PT Click on the Listen Live button at KSAV.org Use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in KSAV or hear us on the KSAV channel on CX Radio Brazil
Indiana Talks Marion, IN Saturday 7/25 8pm ET, 5pm PT Sunday 7/26 6pm ET, 3pm PT Click on the player at IndianaTalks.com or use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in Indiana Talks
KSCO-AM 1080 San Jose, Santa Cruz and Salinas, CA KOMY-AM 1340 La Selva Beach and Watsonville, CA Sunday 7/26 9am ET, 6am PT Also streaming at KSCO.com
RadioSlot.com San Francisco, CA Monday 7/27 10pm ET, 7pm PT with replays Tuesday thru Friday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT Click on the Talk Slot button at RadioSlot.com
If you watched Saturday morning television in the mid 1970s, you’ll remember Kathy Coleman as Holly Marshall on Land of the Lost, one of the first, and one of the most successful, live action children’s shows ever made. Kathy faced all sorts of peril every week on Land of the Lost, but that was nothing compared to her life outside of television, which included incidents of sexual abuse, spousal abuse, being left to die in the middle of nowhere on more than one occasion, and the trauma of learning that she was born out of wedlock. Kathy has faced more obstacles in her life than anyone since Job, yet through it all, she has remained upbeat with the help of faith, family and friends. Kathy shares her story in LOST GIRL: The Truth and Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me Kathleen, an inspiring yet controversial new book, which we will talk about when she joins us in our second hour.
Kathy Coleman will be appearing at Galacticon 4 in Seattle, Washington from July 31 thru Aug. 2. She’ll also be at this year’s official Star Trek convention, Aug. 6 thru Aug. 9 at the Rio Suites Hotel in Las Vegas.
Also joining us this week will be Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Jymn Magon, a man whom our friend (and resident animation historian) Greg Ehrbar considers to be one of the true giants in the animation and recording industries. Jymn spent seventeen years at Walt Disney Studios (where, among other things, he helped revive Disney’s Buena Vista Records label) before moving on to Walt Disney TV Animation, where he created, story edited, and wrote for such shows as Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop, and The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Jymn will share a few stories about his career — including the time in which he briefly collaborated with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas — when he joins us in our first hour.
Jymn Magon will be appearing at D-23 Expo 2015, Aug. 14 thru Aug. 16 at the Anaheim Convention Center. For more information, go to D23.com/d23-expo/
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 22, 1965
Till Death Us Do Part debuted on England’s
BBC-TV.
Till Death Us Do Part is a British
television sitcom that
aired on BBC1 from
1965 to 1975. First airing as
a Comedy Playhousepilot,
the show aired in seven series until 1975. Six years later, ITV continued
the sitcom, calling it Till
Death.... From 1985 to 1992, the BBC produced a sequel In Sickness and in Health.
Created by Johnny
Speight, Till Death Us Do Part centred on the East End Garnett family, led by patriarchAlf Garnett (Warren
Mitchell), a reactionarywhite working-class man who holds racist and
anti-socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else was played by Dandy
Nichols, and his daughter Rita by Una Stubbs.
Rita's husband Mike Rawlins (Anthony Booth) is a socialist layabout. The character
Alf Garnett became a well known character in British culture, and Mitchell played
him on stage and television up until 1998, when Speight died.
In addition to the spin-off In
Sickness and in Health, Till Death Us Do Part was re-made
in many countries including Brazil, Germany (Ein Herz und eine Seele), the
Netherlands (In Voor- En Tegenspoed), and the United States (All
in the Family).
Many episodes from the first three
series are thought to no longer exist, having been wiped in the
late 1960s and early '70s as was the policy at the time.
July 25, 1985
Rock Hudson announces he has AIDS.
Rock Hudson, a quintessential tall, dark and handsome
Hollywood leading man of the 1950s and 1960s who made more than 60 films during
his career, announces through a press release that he is suffering from
acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). With that announcement, Hudson
became the first major celebrity to go public with such a diagnosis. The first
cases of AIDS, a condition of the human immune system, were reported in
homosexual men in the United States in the early 1980s. At the time of Hudson’s
death, AIDS was not fully understood by the medical community and the disease
was stigmatized by the general public as a condition affecting only gay men,
intravenous drug users and people who received contaminated blood transfusions.
Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., on November 17, 1925, in Winnetka,
Illinois. He rose to fame in the 1950s, starring in such films as Giant (1956),
for which he received an Academy Award nomination,and A Farewell to
Arms (1957). Hudson’s good looks and charm were on display in 1959’s Pillow
Talk and several other romantic comedies he made with Doris Day in the
early 1960s. In the 1970s, Hudson co-starred in the popular TV series McMillan
and Wife. In the early 1980s, he began experiencing health problems and
underwent heart bypass surgery. His final TV role was a recurring part on Dynasty
from 1984 to 1985.
In July 1985 Hudson was hospitalized while in Paris. Some media reports
indicated he was suffering from liver cancer. However, on July 25, Hudson
issued a press release stating he had AIDS and was in France for treatment.
Hudson, who had a three-year marriage during the 1950s to a woman who had been
his agent’s secretary, was believed to be gay, although he never spoke publicly
about his sexuality.
Hudson died on October 2, 1985, at age 59 in Beverly
Hills, California. His death was credited with bringing attention to an
epidemic that went on to kill millions of men, women and children of all
backgrounds from around the world. Hudson’s friend and former Giant co-star
Elizabeth Taylor became an AIDS activist and rallied the Hollywood community to
raise millions for research. In 1993, Tom Hanks received a Best Actor Oscar for
his performance in director Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia, the first
major Hollywood movie to focus on AIDS.
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
