tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post3707660765189726473..comments2023-10-19T10:21:32.190-05:00Comments on In Other Words: The Cultural ArchaeologistPaul Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974655628067266530noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post-88027004190199338042007-05-11T21:58:00.000-05:002007-05-11T21:58:00.000-05:00Anonymous,You're right! It was the year they were...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>You're right! It was the year they were threatening to become the "Mc's," with only Columbo not fitting into the mix. I always thought McCoy for Quincy was not a particularly good trade-off, although Quincy did have a long life of its own.<BR/><BR/>MitchellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post-16835130527702522922007-05-11T21:43:00.000-05:002007-05-11T21:43:00.000-05:00McCoy was part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie wit...McCoy was part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie with Columbo, McCloud and McMillan & Wife for the 1975-76 season. Tony Curtis played a con man who turned the tables on other con artists but only 3 or 4 installments were made. The following year, Universal & NBC replaced this segment with Quincy starring Jack Klugman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post-20091385959452647262007-05-07T14:42:00.000-05:002007-05-07T14:42:00.000-05:00I think Hallmark Hall of Fame became womanafied (n...I think Hallmark Hall of Fame became womanafied (new word!). It is popular with chicks. How many men do you know who sit down and watch it unless forced to? It was not always so, as Mitchell noted.<BR/><BR/>I don't remember that Tony Curtis show. Must not have lasted long.<BR/><BR/>Weren't the mid-70s the highpoint of the Quinn-Martin cop shows? I wonder if <I>McCoy</I> was in that stable?Cathy_of_Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795566831031491371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post-74909076474603334642007-05-07T11:52:00.000-05:002007-05-07T11:52:00.000-05:00NBC did this procedure too later for Saturday Nigh...NBC did this procedure too later for <I>Saturday Night's Main Event</I>.<BR/><BR/>Indiana vs UCLA at the now-defunct St. Louis Arena sounded interesting with the 11:30 PM (ET) time. <BR/><BR/>The St. Louis Arena was demolished in favour of constructing the current Savvis Center, home of the NHL Blues and some college basketball teams. Under terms of a 1976 NBA-ABA merger agreement, an NBA team cannot be contained in St. Louis or in Louisville in order to guarantee the owners of two ABA franchises in those two cites <BR/>which were folding as part of the merger revenue from all future NBA television contracts.<BR/><BR/>ESPN would actually have 11:30 PM (ET) tipoffs of games in smaller conferences in the Eastern or Central time zone. Such conferences included the Ohio Valley Conference.<BR/><BR/>The NFL has restrictions on doubleheaders. Among the restrictions include restrictions where local markets of the (then) 26 NFL markets (New York with two teams, the Bay Area with two teams) still in use today with 30 markets (add Phoenix, Charlotte, Nashville, Indianapolis, and Jacksonville; the NFL lost the Los Angeles market). If there is a home game by the host market, that market cannot air more than two games, and only one game per network, and at different times. The only exception is when a home game must be blacked out. In that case, both games to air on television must air in the other time slot.<BR/><BR/>The local Fox affiliate had a lazy person on the switch this weekend. They started a movie at noon despite a warning from the network at 1 PM they were to show the rain-delayed Crown Royal presents the Jim Stewart 400 from Richmond, Virginia (postponed from Saturday night). At 1, the movie kept running despite the warning. When the cars were on the next-to-last pace lap at 1:13 PM, the broadcast was switched hastily after someone was awaken to change the switch to change from pre-arranged programming to the rescheduled live event. If it had been two minutes later, the green would have waved with the movie showing, and beer cans would have flown out to the station headquarters. Imagine the station falling asleep that the pre-game segment was finished and kickoff was just about to start.<BR/><BR/>P. S. I couldn't find the theatre because they didn't tell me exactly where it was, and I was tired from the strange runaround before I arrived just three minutes before the start of <I>Le Nozze di Figaro</I> in English, so I couldn't review it!<BR/><BR/>Some thoughts -- different translation than the Converse 2006 edition, there was just one intermission instead of the three, and it makes you think about what "Porgi amor" should sound like! (Remember, I have a recording of that song from a 2003 recital in Florida -- consider who's singing it!)<BR/><BR/>And why too many applauses for this, Nicholas Smith's last performance with the South Carolina Philharmonic? I went to three of his last four events (4/21 Belshazzar's Feast, 5/1 Symphonic Movie Spectacular, and 5/5 Le Nozze di Figaro -- there were two shows, on May 4 and 5, I chose the latter). My voice teacher was also expecting to attend, but I didn't see her. (Funny that it happened, since she was slated to attend a local Town Theatre production of <I>Cats</I>, and the date she had planned to see it was sold out.)<BR/><BR/>There were many ABC affiliates which refused, when it started, to air <I>NYPD Blue</I> because it was too raunchy.<BR/><BR/>The "Oprahified" audience is a problem everywhere. In churches today, I see that they have dumbed down church and the message to be more Oprahified. One kid in church actually insulted me when he saw a pic of me with my voice teacher, and then I played a clip of her singing some Mozart. He called it "Oprah".Bobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02366544608847776006noreply@blogger.com