Comments on: Open Thread Saturday

By: Jamesb

Jamesb — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:05:45 +0000

Ya. I wrote a full length piece on "Uncle Walt" yesterday. Go to http://shermansmarch.blogspot.com/ Citation and sources supplied as well as my OPINION about the ol' semi-Commie coot.

By: Jamesb

Jamesb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:24:28 +0000

The media and political glitteratti can't wrap their collective heads around the fact that an attractive woman would marry her highschool sweetheart, graduate from a college NOT LOCATED IN THE FREAKIN' North East, get annoyed enough about her local school board to join it, then her town council, then eventually get elected GOVERNOR of her state, all the while dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a wife, a mother of five including her precious little TRIG, and now a grandmother while being tapped for a run at the Vice Presidency. It's too much of an O'Henry short story for them, Karl Rove and Peggy Noonan included.

By: Jamesb

Jamesb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:17:27 +0000

Any other questions?

By: Jamesb

Jamesb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:07:56 +0000

Does CBS still "do" news? Ol' Bill Paley would be ashamed…

By: Jamesb

Jamesb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:05:32 +0000

Ya. I wrote a full length piece on "Uncle Walt" yesterday. Go to http://shermansmarch.blogspot.com/

Citation and sources supplied as well as my OPINION about the semi-Commie coot.

By: Rock Stanley

Rock Stanley — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:45:31 +0000

There's a lot of vile and bombast in your post. Can you back up your claims with facts? Or is this just internet hyperbole on a weekend?

By: Jimmy Arone

Jimmy Arone — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:41:25 +0000

Thanks for the link. Great article. As I wrote at Big Hollywood the night I heard the news, Sarah Palin was resigning her office…

She is in their heads. Elites of all sorts and sizes. She is in their heads and it drives them batsh_t.

Sarah Palin is a fighter and a winner.

By: L.B. Oscar Mayer

L.B. Oscar Mayer — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:59:29 +0000

I miss Eric Sevareid.

What 'talent' does CBS still have? Hell – look at that. I referred to news people as 'talent' instead of reporters or anchor people or correspondents.

That shows you the mindset that has become so persuasive. Even the detractors speak it now.

By: L.B. Oscar Mayer

L.B. Oscar Mayer — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:14:47 +0000

'Angels in the Outfield' is excellent. Paul Douglas always brings this great humanity to his roles that he makes seem effortless likely because it may have been so in his own personality. His off script comments in any number of the CBS radio shows that he was the announcer for bear this out.

He did lots of TV in the 50s, too.

"14 Hours" is a stand out and it is a pity that his film career was so short – 11 years up until his death in 1959.

For a major star of his popularity in the 1950s, there is comparitively little written material available about him and his career.

By: Jimmy Arone

Jimmy Arone — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:28:50 +0000

Thanks for the link. Many of these guys cut their teeth on radio and early live television, which helped to make them as solid as they were. My favorite Paul Douglas role would still be 'Angels in the Outfield'

Of course, I enjoyed 'Across 110th Street' too, so that still kind of makes me strange.

Hang in there on the movie posters.