A hashtag of possible interest
Baltimore questions
Is live television coverage in Baltimore meant to help bring about the violence that we now see on CNN? Is it too cynical to acknowledge that broadcasting such stuff serves broadcasters’ interests? And is it too cynical to suspect that broadcasting such stuff serves to strengthen a larger narrative about color and criminality?
Lois Lilienstein (1936–2015)
Sharon, Lois & Bram cassettes were a main staple of our children’s childhoods.
Scott Pelley’s Bob Schieffer
Friend, colleague, mentor, doppelgänger.
Overheard
Eating right in the Middle Ages.
John Kerry, less grandiose
He’s not the leader of six world powers.
Domestic comedy
”It’s like Godzilla meets Rodan!”
Rip and run
Omar robs drug dealers, but “rip and run” has a much broader meaning.
If Homer’s poems were television channels
Like it says.
CBS oops
“A secret stash of momentos.”
Overheard
Superman!
Domestic comedy
“Five-o!”
Joe Franklin (1926–2015)
“My show was often like a zoo.”
Domestic comedy
“That’s not Aunt Bee!” “That’s the Anti-Bee.”
Stanley Neufeld (d. 2014)
He worked on the series Naked City.
Mayberry and abstraction
“You see, Goober, abstract paintings are not representational.”
Mayberry and kinship networks
The censors must have been asleep at the blue pencil.
The McNulty
A new McDonald’s item.
Deep-focus Lassie
Lassie, in the Gregg Toland manner.
Domestic comedy
Some shows are always interesting.
KNUT Winter Schedule
For squirrels.
Ghostwriter blurb writer
I had forgotten all about going to bat for the series.
“Day at a time”
How to rob drug dealers and live. From The Wire.
Misheard
“It’s an anonymous hipster. See if you can trace the call.”
Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga
Pencils of The Dick Van Dyke Show.
John King, fast talker
No more coffee for him.
Pocket notebook sightings: Dragnet
The Los Angeles Police Department notebook, as seen in the television series Dragnet, is a thing of beauty.
Anthony Bourdain in the Bronx
“The Bronx is also for him, I daresay, the Dark Borough, land of colorful ethnic peoples. Most embarrassing moment: ‘I didn’t know there were Hondurans here.’”
Bourdain in the Bronx
Exploring.
Goodbye, Naked City
Zohra Lampert says goodbye.