[TV orNotTV] Re: Golden Globes
Two phrases come to mind when I hear Golden Globes: Cairo Pennysaver and Pia Zadora. So I think of any reaction as overreaction. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: TV series with a time travel theme?
On Jan 17, 10:26 am, Ron Casalotti roncasalo...@gmail.com wrote: Peabody, here... The 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman featurette as part of Rocky and his Friends and The Bullwinkle Show featured time travel in every episode via the WABAC machine, a device named a la mode of the time when UNIVAC ruled the tech world. I mention parenthetically here that DreamWorks is planning a Peabody and Sherman feature, with Mr. Peabody's voice to be supplied by Robert Downey Jr. Spielberg still hasn't met a bad idea he didn't want to rush onto the screen. --Dave Sikula -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Regis Leaving 'Live!'
The end of an era as Philbin, 79, leaves his daily show after 28 years (23 of them as a national program) in the fall--ABC/Disney says the show will continue with a new co-host for Kelly Ripa: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/regis-philbin-leaving-live_n_810219.html?utm_campaign=011811utm_medium=emailutm_source=Alert-mediautm_content=FullStory Of course, Regis had been doing this format with various co-hosts on local TV in various places (and briefly on NBC and Lifetime) for at least another decade before the partnership with Kathie Lee Gifford took off in New York at WABC and then nationally. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030420?refCatId=16 Don Kirshner, songwriter and producer, dies 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling,' 'I'm a Believer' among writer's works By Sam Thielman Songwriter and rock producer Don Kirshner died of heart failure on Monday at the age of 77 in Boca Raton, Fla. Kirshner wrote You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and managed songwriting talent including Neil Sedaka, Carole King, Howard Greenfield and many others, providing songs for The Monkees' TV program in the 1960's, including I'm a Believer. Kirshner's first major success story was the career of fellow Bronx High School of Science alumni Bobby Darin, which Kirshner helped to launch in the 1950's. Along with partner Al Nevins, Kirshner founded Aldon music and helped to shape the role of the Brill Building - an office building just north of Times Square where some of the biggest hits of the 50's and 60's were written. Aldon was instrumental in the early careers of Sedaka, King, and the Righteous Brothers. By 1962, Aldon had hundreds of hits on the radio penned by a team of 18 writers, the oldest of whom was 26. Kirshner founded Chairman Records, Calendar/Kirshner Recordings, and Dimension Records, notable for its release of The Locomotion. Over the course of his career, Kirshner became known as The Man With the Golden Ear for his ability to spot a hit; sales of Monkees records dropped sharply after the band parted ways with Kirshner. Post-Monkees, Kirshner developed The Archies, an animated series based on the cartoon characters, whose musical talents were provided by studio musicians assembled by Kirshner to perform hits he selected, including Sugar, Sugar and Bang-Shang-A-Lang. He also served as exec producer on ABC's In Concert and later created his own syndie show, Rock Concert - notable for its all-live-performances lineup after a period of similar shows featuring lipsynched perfs. Kirshner is survived by Sheila, his wife of 50 years, children Ricky and Daryn and his grandchildren Alexandra, Shelby, Jillian, Matthew and Jaden. Services for Kirshner are being arranged in Florida. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Don Kirshner Scholarship Fund, which is being established by his family for emerging songwriters (70 West 36 Street, Suite 701, NY NY 10018 - 212.239.0777). Contact Sam Thielman at n...@variety.com -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
Barry Mann and Neil Diamond might take issue. On Jan 18, 11:42 am, Diner bwayst...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030420?refCatId=16 Don Kirshner, songwriter and producer, dies 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling,' 'I'm a Believer' among writer's works By Sam Thielman [snip) -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
On Jan 18, 12:00 pm, donz5 do...@aol.com wrote: Barry Mann and Neil Diamond might take issue. On Jan 18, 11:42 am, Diner bwayst...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030420?refCatId=16 Don Kirshner, songwriter and producer, dies 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling,' 'I'm a Believer' among writer's works By Sam Thielman [snip) The article goes further than the headline, actually claiming (erroneously) that Kirshner wrote Lovin' Feelin'. I don't believe Kirshner had any songwriting credits of his own... although I haven't checked the online ASCAP and BMI databases to verify that. I never actually saw Don Kirshner's Rock Concert - I was eight years old when it started, and it was on way past my bedtime. But I do remember Paul Shaffer's very funny impression of him on SNL. As with Dan Aykroyd's impression of Tom Snyder, more people saw the SNL parody than saw the real thing. Paul learned his impression the hard way - Kirshner was co-executive producer of A Year at the Top, Paul's ill-fated CBS sitcom. -Tim -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
This is worse than Carson taking 50% for Paul Anka's Tonight Show Theme. On Jan 18, 12:22 pm, Diner bwayst...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 18, 12:00 pm, donz5 do...@aol.com wrote: Barry Mann and Neil Diamond might take issue. On Jan 18, 11:42 am, Diner bwayst...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030420?refCatId=16 Don Kirshner, songwriter and producer, dies 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling,' 'I'm a Believer' among writer's works By Sam Thielman [snip) The article goes further than the headline, actually claiming (erroneously) that Kirshner wrote Lovin' Feelin'. I don't believe Kirshner had any songwriting credits of his own... although I haven't checked the online ASCAP and BMI databases to verify that. I never actually saw Don Kirshner's Rock Concert - I was eight years old when it started, and it was on way past my bedtime. But I do remember Paul Shaffer's very funny impression of him on SNL. As with Dan Aykroyd's impression of Tom Snyder, more people saw the SNL parody than saw the real thing. Paul learned his impression the hard way - Kirshner was co-executive producer of A Year at the Top, Paul's ill-fated CBS sitcom. -Tim -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: TV series with a time travel theme?
About 5 or so years ago, there were two TV series, one on WB/CW and the other, I think, on ABC that were the dude wakes up as a teenager again. If I remember correctly, the ABC one bombed quickly and the WB/CW one lasted for a season. I think the WB/CW one was a 1/2 hour comedy while the ABC one was a 1 hour drama. Isn't any show that uses the worst plot device in the world of starting with the action sequence and then coming back after the credits with 3 days earlier really a time travel episode? -- David Risner Software Engineer MERLOT, California State University On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Dave Sikula dsik...@yahoo.com wrote: On Jan 17, 10:26 am, Ron Casalotti roncasalo...@gmail.com wrote: Peabody, here... The 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman featurette as part of Rocky and his Friends and The Bullwinkle Show featured time travel in every episode via the WABAC machine, a device named a la mode of the time when UNIVAC ruled the tech world. I mention parenthetically here that DreamWorks is planning a Peabody and Sherman feature, with Mr. Peabody's voice to be supplied by Robert Downey Jr. Spielberg still hasn't met a bad idea he didn't want to rush onto the screen. --Dave Sikula -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: TV series with a time travel theme?
7 Days -- QWIZX.com - A little bit of everything -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Regis Leaving 'Live!'
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote: The end of an era as Philbin, 79, leaves his daily show after 28 years (23 of them as a national program) in the fall--ABC/Disney says the show will continue with a new co-host for Kelly Ripa: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/regis-philbin-leaving-live_n_810219.html?utm_campaign=011811utm_medium=emailutm_source=Alert-mediautm_content=FullStory Of course, Regis had been doing this format with various co-hosts on local TV in various places (and briefly on NBC and Lifetime) for at least another decade before the partnership with Kathie Lee Gifford took off in New York at WABC and then nationally. I was vaugely aware of Regis when I was a very small kid, since my grandmother was a huge Joey Bishop fan. Then I was aware of his LA morning show for a while. Since then I have known him primarily as the host of a short lived game show, and a regular guest on Dave. Assuming he shows up on Dave from time to time as long as he is able, this change will have no effect on his profile as far as I am concerned. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: TV series with a time travel theme?
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:51 AM, David Risner da...@risner.org wrote: Isn't any show that uses the worst plot device in the world of starting with the action sequence and then coming back after the credits with 3 days earlier really a time travel episode? I don't think so. That is more of a flashback device than a time travel device - in your example the audience travels in time (or perhaps better the narrative voice of the story is able to travel in time), but the characters themselves remain stuck in a linear, one-way time line that moves at a constant rate. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: TV series with a time travel theme?
Assuming the series David is referring to is 7 Days, it was definitely time travel (albeit short range) and not a flashback. The Backstep device was used to send a person back in time 1 week to prevent a catastrophic event. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] TV series with a time travel theme?
Torchwood doesn't really fit the definition, because as much as Captain
Jack Harkness is a man out of time, time travel doesn't play a major role
within the action of the series. (All of Jack's time travel takes place
within Doctor Who.) There was one episode in the first series ('Captain
Jack Harkness') where Jack Tosh get thrown back to WWII the meet the man
from whom Jack appropriated his name, but that was a one-off.
Yes, there's the 'rift', but that generally brings things TO present day
Cardiff doesn't take the team AWAY.
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[TV orNotTV] FCC Approves Comcast/NBCU Merger
A 4-1 vote (Copps the predictable dissenter), now the Justice Dept. is the only obstacle (and they'll probably give final approval with conditions involving quashing competition)--Al Franken's not too happy right now: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2011/01/the_federal_communications_com_8.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert As this is posted, no comments on the WaPo Post Tech blog post, although I expect that sooner or later the teabaggers will come around to hope that the Robertses get rid of Pinko Olbermann and Lesbo Maddow. Meanwhile, I predict that within the next year, a certain entertainment news program will be renamed Access Hollywood: Powered by E! News, with Seacrest replacing Billy Bush. Just a feeling. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
On Jan 18, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Diner wrote: Songwriter and rock producer Don Kirshner died of heart failure on Monday at the age of 77 in Boca Raton, Fla. Kirshner wrote You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and managed songwriting talent including Neil Sedaka, Carole King, Howard Greenfield and many others, providing songs for The Monkees' TV program in the 1960's, including I'm a Believer. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall the night Kirshner gave the Monkees their royalty checks and a new song to perform. The Monkees took the checks and told Kirshner they would decide what to record from then on. When Kirshner demanded they do the song, Mike Nesmith punched a hole in the wall next to Kirshner's head and said, That could have been your f-cking face. The song Kirshner brought them that eventful night was either Purple Haze or Sugar Sugar. I forget which one. He also served as exec producer on ABC's In Concert and later created his own syndie show, Rock Concert - notable for its all-live-performances lineup after a period of similar shows featuring lipsynched perfs. Did anyone know who Paul Schaffer was before he started imitating Kirshner on SNL? Melissa N. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] TV series with a time travel theme?
Ah, the shows about guys returning to being teenagers I was thinking
of premiered in 2002: Do Over on The WB and That Was Then on ABC.
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:04 AM, M-D November mdnovem...@gmail.com wrote:
Torchwood doesn't really fit the definition, because as much as Captain
Jack Harkness is a man out of time, time travel doesn't play a major role
within the action of the series. (All of Jack's time travel takes place
within Doctor Who.) There was one episode in the first series ('Captain
Jack Harkness') where Jack Tosh get thrown back to WWII the meet the man
from whom Jack appropriated his name, but that was a one-off.
Yes, there's the 'rift', but that generally brings things TO present day
Cardiff doesn't take the team AWAY.
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Diner bwayst...@gmail.com wrote: I never actually saw Don Kirshner's Rock Concert - I was eight years old when it started, and it was on way past my bedtime. But I do remember Paul Shaffer's very funny impression of him on SNL. As with Dan Aykroyd's impression of Tom Snyder, more people saw the SNL parody than saw the real thing. I remember Don Kirshner's Rock Concert fondly. NBC started a Friday late night concert series called The Midnight Special and DK's Rock Concert seemed to be a way to ride its coattails. Rock Concert aired locally late on Saturday nights, after SNL though not on the NBC affiliate, and had a much lower budget and far less mainstream acts than the Midnight Special. If, in terms of acts and budget, the Midnight Special was the main room, DK's Rock Concert was the lounge. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] NotTV: Lonesome Rhodes Beck Loses Philly Station, Bashes Philly
Glenn Beck was all over Philadelphia on his radio show today--could it because CBS-owned WPHT, his former home base, is dumping him (and Sean Hannity) as of Monday?: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Jilted_Glenn_Beck_tells_nation_Philadelphia_is_not_a_place_you_want_to_be.html -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
On Jan 18, 2:47 pm, Melissa Neal drmi...@earthlink.net wrote: On Jan 18, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Diner wrote: Songwriter and rock producer Don Kirshner died of heart failure on Monday at the age of 77 in Boca Raton, Fla. Kirshner wrote You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and managed songwriting talent including Neil Sedaka, Carole King, Howard Greenfield and many others, providing songs for The Monkees' TV program in the 1960's, including I'm a Believer. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall the night Kirshner gave the Monkees their royalty checks and a new song to perform. The Monkees took the checks and told Kirshner they would decide what to record from then on. When Kirshner demanded they do the song, Mike Nesmith punched a hole in the wall next to Kirshner's head and said, That could have been your f-cking face. The song Kirshner brought them that eventful night was either Purple Haze or Sugar Sugar. I forget which one. It was Sugar Sugar. http://www.soundspike.com/news/article/1409-don_kirshner_news_rock_n_roll_impresario.html He also served as exec producer on ABC's In Concert and later created his own syndie show, Rock Concert - notable for its all-live-performances lineup after a period of similar shows featuring lipsynched perfs. Did anyone know who Paul Schaffer was before he started imitating Kirshner on SNL? He was Paul Shaffer (which the above link also misspells). Melissa N. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
I'm likely in the minority, but I despised just about everything Kirshner did and promoted in the music biz. On Jan 18, 4:23 pm, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Diner bwayst...@gmail.com wrote: I never actually saw Don Kirshner's Rock Concert - I was eight years old when it started, and it was on way past my bedtime. But I do remember Paul Shaffer's very funny impression of him on SNL. As with Dan Aykroyd's impression of Tom Snyder, more people saw the SNL parody than saw the real thing. I remember Don Kirshner's Rock Concert fondly. NBC started a Friday late night concert series called The Midnight Special and DK's Rock Concert seemed to be a way to ride its coattails. Rock Concert aired locally late on Saturday nights, after SNL though not on the NBC affiliate, and had a much lower budget and far less mainstream acts than the Midnight Special. If, in terms of acts and budget, the Midnight Special was the main room, DK's Rock Concert was the lounge. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
I (and I'm sure many others) e-mailed the Variety obit author regarding I'm a Believer and You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling. The current copy's since edited out any reference to Kirshner's songwriting history. The earlier version (as copied from above): Don Kirshner, songwriter and producer, dies 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling,' 'I'm a Believer' among writer's works Songwriter and rock producer Don Kirshner died of heart failure on Monday at the age of 77 in Boca Raton, Fla. Kirshner wrote You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and managed songwriting talent including Neil Sedaka, Carole King, Howard Greenfield and many others, providing songs for The Monkees' TV program in the 1960's, including I'm a Believer. It now reads: Don Kirshner, music publisher and producer, dies Brill Building mogul spearheaded Monkees, Archies Rock producer Don Kirshner died of heart failure on Monday at the age of 76 in Boca Raton, Fla. Kirshner managed songwriting talent including Neil Sedaka, Carole King, Howard Greenfield and many others, providing songs for The Monkees' TV program in the 1960's, including I'm a Believer. Same link as before: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030420?refCatId=16 -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
I think Melissa was being sarcastic. (Not surprising since she was like that in college. I'm surprised martians weren't mentioned...) - Original Message - From: donz5 do...@aol.com To: TVorNotTV tvornottv@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:15 PM Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77 On Jan 18, 2:47 pm, Melissa Neal drmi...@earthlink.net wrote: On Jan 18, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Diner wrote: Songwriter and rock producer Don Kirshner died of heart failure on Monday at the age of 77 in Boca Raton, Fla. Kirshner wrote You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and managed songwriting talent including Neil Sedaka, Carole King, Howard Greenfield and many others, providing songs for The Monkees' TV program in the 1960's, including I'm a Believer. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall the night Kirshner gave the Monkees their royalty checks and a new song to perform. The Monkees took the checks and told Kirshner they would decide what to record from then on. When Kirshner demanded they do the song, Mike Nesmith punched a hole in the wall next to Kirshner's head and said, That could have been your f-cking face. The song Kirshner brought them that eventful night was either Purple Haze or Sugar Sugar. I forget which one. It was Sugar Sugar. http://www.soundspike.com/news/article/1409-don_kirshner_news_rock_n_roll_impresario.html He also served as exec producer on ABC's In Concert and later created his own syndie show, Rock Concert - notable for its all-live-performances lineup after a period of similar shows featuring lipsynched perfs. Did anyone know who Paul Schaffer was before he started imitating Kirshner on SNL? He was Paul Shaffer (which the above link also misspells). Melissa N. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
Oops; sorry, Melissa. On Jan 18, 6:40 pm, Bradford bradfo...@dwx.com wrote: I think Melissa was being sarcastic. (Not surprising since she was like that in college. I'm surprised martians weren't mentioned...) - Original Message - From: donz5 do...@aol.com To: TVorNotTV tvornottv@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:15 PM Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77 On Jan 18, 2:47 pm, Melissa Neal drmi...@earthlink.net wrote: On Jan 18, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Diner wrote: Songwriter and rock producer Don Kirshner died of heart failure on Monday at the age of 77 in Boca Raton, Fla. Kirshner wrote You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and managed songwriting talent including Neil Sedaka, Carole King, Howard Greenfield and many others, providing songs for The Monkees' TV program in the 1960's, including I'm a Believer. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall the night Kirshner gave the Monkees their royalty checks and a new song to perform. The Monkees took the checks and told Kirshner they would decide what to record from then on. When Kirshner demanded they do the song, Mike Nesmith punched a hole in the wall next to Kirshner's head and said, That could have been your f-cking face. The song Kirshner brought them that eventful night was either Purple Haze or Sugar Sugar. I forget which one. It was Sugar Sugar. http://www.soundspike.com/news/article/1409-don_kirshner_news_rock_n_... He also served as exec producer on ABC's In Concert and later created his own syndie show, Rock Concert - notable for its all-live-performances lineup after a period of similar shows featuring lipsynched perfs. Did anyone know who Paul Schaffer was before he started imitating Kirshner on SNL? He was Paul Shaffer (which the above link also misspells). Melissa N. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] TV series with a time travel theme?
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From: M-D November
Torchwood doesn't really fit the definition, because as much as Captain
Jack Harkness is a man out of time, time travel doesn't play a major role
within the action of the series. (All of Jack's time travel takes place
within Doctor Who.) There was one episode in the first series ('Captain
Jack Harkness') where Jack Tosh get thrown back to WWII the meet the
man from whom Jack appropriated his name, but that was a one-off.
Actually, there was a non-flashback scene in the second series finale (Exit
Wounds), where Captain Jack was buried alive in 1st-century Cardiff by his
brother and an unwilling Spike-from-Buffy, only to be literally unearthed
nearly 1.9 millennia later.
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Bradford wrote: I think Melissa was being sarcastic. Yep. Remember when Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork thought it would be a great idea to have Hendrix open for the Monkees? All those teenyboppers yelling We want Davy! while Hendrix vainly tried to play over the noise. He only lasted a few dates before dropping out. Melissa N. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: TV series with a time travel theme?
7 Days was on UPN, not the WB. For whatever that's worth to the discussion. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Wash Post: Regis, Ricky, and the lost art of hosting
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Diner bwayst...@gmail.com wrote: Regis Philbin, Ricky Gervais, and the lost art of hosting By Alexandra Petri Contrast today's hosts to Regis Philbin. ... You never had the sense that he wanted to be the center of attention. Um... who is Ms. Petri talking about? Because while I do not deny Regis has hosting ability, only a fool would suggest he didn't enjoy being the center of attention. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
To me, DK catered to the lamest, most overly-slick elements in pop music. Perhaps that was more a reflection of the times, but either Kirshner truly believed in this crap as essential to our culture, or he recognized the potential for big bucks. An older and more industry- accomplished Artie Fufkin. I cringed every time I checked out RC, disgusted with the pop music he was promoting. And don't get me started with the Monkees. On Jan 18, 11:06 pm, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:16 PM, donz5 do...@aol.com wrote: I'm likely in the minority, but I despised just about everything Kirshner did and promoted in the music biz. I can't imagine coming to that conclusion at the time, even if it was justified. I can state this - I was a teenager during this period and I can remember getting together with friends late on a Friday night to watch a special act like the Rolling Stones on the Midnight Special and I can remember sitting with other friends in school during a study period on Monday mornings discussing the weekend's SNL and Monty Python, but I don't remember having s discussion forum for the previous Saturday's DK's Rock Concert. It certainly didn't attain the attention of the other shows. But where I got my music from album oriented FM radio, (pre-cable) TV, a few live concerts, and Circus magazine, DK's Rock Concert presented acts I either never had heard of or read about in Circus but had never heard. I never gave a thought about who Don was or what he was presenting or his role in the music business in general. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
On Jan 18, 2011, at 10:18 PM, donz5 wrote: To me, DK catered to the lamest, most overly-slick elements in pop music. Perhaps that was more a reflection of the times, but either Kirshner truly believed in this crap as essential to our culture, or he recognized the potential for big bucks. An older and more industry- accomplished Artie Fufkin. I cringed every time I checked out RC, disgusted with the pop music he was promoting. What about the times Letterman was on? Melissa N. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Don Kirshner, producer and TV host, dead at 77
Someone sent me one of his two appearances. Huge bell-bottoms; it was the wrong audience. On Jan 18, 11:58 pm, Melissa Neal drmi...@earthlink.net wrote: On Jan 18, 2011, at 10:18 PM, donz5 wrote: To me, DK catered to the lamest, most overly-slick elements in pop music. Perhaps that was more a reflection of the times, but either Kirshner truly believed in this crap as essential to our culture, or he recognized the potential for big bucks. An older and more industry- accomplished Artie Fufkin. I cringed every time I checked out RC, disgusted with the pop music he was promoting. What about the times Letterman was on? Melissa N. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
