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“Hi, My Name’s Floyd and I Subscribe to HBO.”

Sorry, the site doesn’t have embedding.  I thought Floyd and the other 3-donians still subscribing to HBO could learn something from this documentary…

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/the-phil-donahue-show/2857/

Watch It

The first episode was a bit slow… exposition and all that, but well done over all. The above has a preview of coming episodes… I especially like the boot camp speech by MOH winner John Basilone. Anyway… no sucker punches tonight and the word “yellow” and “Jap” are thrown about, but it seemed [...]

Sunday’s WTF Video

For some reason this color version is edited. If you feel the need for the entire song in Black and White here it is.

Classic Pick O’ the Day: March 15

Miller’s Crossing (1990)
A corrupt political boss (Albert Finney) has a falling out with his best friend (Gabriel Byrne) when they both fall for the same woman in this Prohibition-era story of warring mobs. Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, Albert Finney; Director: Joel Coen; TV-14,LV, WS. 11:00 PM PDT. [...]

Basketball

I finally saw the HBO documentary Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals last night. Like most documentaries… when it sticks to the subject — Magic and Bird — it is riveting. I also saw more fundamentally sound basketball in 5 minutes of highlights than one would see in 5 games of today’s [...]

Sunday Open Thread

There should be nothing but unalloyed anticipation for tonight’s premiere of The Pacific, thank you Tom Hanks for ruining that. I’m mostly optimistic.

Classic Pick O' the Day: March 14

Road to Zanzibar (1941)
A lady con artist scams two out-of-work entertainers into financing a safari.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel Dir: Victor Schertzinger BW-91 mins, TV-G. 10:15 AM EST. TCM

I love these films — a great way to spend a Sunday. Yesterday we were talking about “the good old days”. [...]

Classic Pick O' the Day: March 12

Evil Dead II (1987) The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Bruce Campbell. | Director: Sam Raimi | TV-MA-V. 9:05 PM PST. IFC.

Who’s laughing now? You will be when you watch this. Bruce [...]

Floyd’s Highbrow Moment

Not for kids Tracy! or PC folks — which I guess is the same as kids.

Merlin Olsen — R.I.P.

Merlin Olsen (74) and Deacon Jones rush Johnny Unitas

Merlin Olsen, NFL Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams’ Fearsome Foursome, actor in the 1970s on Little House on the Prairie and Father Murphy, and football color commentator with Dick Enberg has died at age 69 of cancer.

I liked Olsen a lot… [...]

Quiz Time!

Has there ever been a funnier TV show than this?

Classic Pick O' the Day: March 11

Rescue Dawn (2006)
A US Fighter pilot’s epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War. Christian Bale, Steve Zahn. Directed by Werner Herzog. Sundance Channel. 9:00 PM EST (and again at 3:15 AM EST).

This is obviously a new one, but is and will remain [...]

Get Lost!

Discuss tonight’s episode. Spoilers abound so beware.

Undercover Boss

I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of Undercover Boss on CBS.- Each week the CEO of a major corporation goes undercover to work somewhere within his corporation. It’s a great concept and a great reality show. Kudos to CBS for doing it. This is from the 7-Eleven episode. This is [...]

Monday Open Thread

Classic Pick O' the Day: March 8

I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
A World War I veteran faces inhuman conditions when he’s sentenced to hard labor.
Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis Dir: Mervyn Le Roy BW-93 mins, TV-PG. 11:30 PM. EST. TCM

Before there was the downtrodden down on his luck Vietnam Vet, there was the [...]

Today’s WTF Video

I’ll have a Rooty Tooty Fresh and Quaaludy please.

Yay Jay! Leno & The Tonight Show

I confess: I am so in the tank for Jay Leno, I may actually be the tank.

Loved him when he appeared on the old Letterman show (back when they were buddies), and he had his own segment (“Jay’s Beef”), where he would gripe eloquent on his sore subject du jour.

Then I started catching his stand-up. [...]

A New Hawaii Five-Oh?!?

“Book em Danno!”

Movieweb has the story.

Ocean’s Eleven’s Scott Caan has signed on for the role of Danny “Danno” Williams on CBS’ updated remake of Hawaii Five-O.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new Hawaii Five-O hails from CBS Studios, Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and CSI: NY executive producer Peter Lenkov, and centers [...]

Careful How You Use It

Genius!

Whomever came up with this ad concept deserves a huge bonus. He cracks me up.

Get Lost!

As usual…. discuss away… and spoilers may abound so if you haven’t seen it yet beware.

Top 5 Where Have I Seen You Before?: Y Chromosome Edition

You might be asking yourself — who is this guy? He looks familiar. That’s because he has like a million credit on IMDb.com. I was watching an episode of From the Earth to the Moon on DVD the other day and he had quite a substantial role — and he was great. [...]

Masterpiece Classic: A WWW*

(* my new 3D series: Wankette’s Worth Watching)

PBS, those marketing geniuses, decided to break up Masterpiece Theatre into three “pieces”: Classic, Contemporary, and (adding the previously separate collection to the mix) Mystery!

Classics continues its season tonight with a remake of  John Buchan’s The 39 Steps (yes, the same one Hitchcock did).  It got mixed reviews in [...]

S The Magazine?

Threedonia friend, sometime Radio Free Threedonia co-host Daniel Crandall has a great post over at his home digs — S.T. Karnick’s The American Culture — highlighting an idea that Sarah Palin would be better served by forgoing a political run for a career as a media player — a la Oprah Winfrey.

Daniel points us to [...]

The Essentials

Alec Baldwin will resume co-hosting duties alongside Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies’ “The Essentials” on March 8. First up will be Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire. I have wanted to hate Baldwin for at least a decade, but dammit between Hunt For Red October, The Cooler, (he was the best thing [...]

Get Lost!

Discuss tonight’s episode “Lighthouse” here. If you have not seen the episode yet beware… spoilers may abound.

Trailer Park: Green Zone

How many cliches can you count in 30 seconds?

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Great FlyDini!

H/T Thunder Tales

Monday Open Thread

G’Night Michelle

If you didn’t know it already, Bob Saget is one nasty dude.

Jamie Kennedy – New Music – More Music Videos

Friday Night Fight

Odin’s beard! This bad. ‘zounds!

Classic Pick O' the Day: February 19

Shane (1953)
A mysterious drifter helps farmers fight off a vicious gunman.
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde Dir: George Stevens C-118 mins, TV-G. 12:00 AM EST. TCM

Some gems are on again tomorrow as TCM continues its 31 Days of Oscar run. Starting off the day at 5:30 AM EST is [...]

Get Lost!

Meaty episode tonight — some might say of biblical proportions… spoilers abound so beware Mike. If you’re just in from darts… sleep off your buzz, watch the episode and come on back.

AF RESERVE This Is The White Stripes, “FIGHT’S ON!”

From Under The Radar , The Military.com entertainment blog comes this piece of something.

The White Stripes were understandably pissed off after the Air Force Reserve ran a commercial during the Super Bowl that ripped off their song “Fell in Love With a Girl.”

The band released a statement on their website:

“We believe our song was [...]

Seen your video?

If nothing else, at least MTV’s finally being honest. Fortunately, VH1 Classic mostly living up to the original mission statement and damned if I can’t get enough of That Metal Show.

The new logo is meant to put the focus on MTV’s current slate of talent — the stars of mostly reality shows like “Jersey Shore,” [...]

ARCHER!

Standard WARNING! This clip contains stuff not suitable for the kiddos.

FUNNY AS HELL! If you like the Venture Bros, this will be right up your alley.

The Career Killer

In some way this video makes me glad they don’t really show music videos on MTV anymore…

What the hell, Billy?

Ace of Spades has the video of the first ten minutes of Music Television. That was some cool stuff way back then. What the hell happened?

I guess I could ask the same question about [...]

Get Lost! Week 2

Episode 2 is in the can. Feel free to discuss… spoilers abound so if you haven’t seen it yet beware. If you don’t like Lost /yawn/… well we don’t really care.

Vomit Eaters

I have been amused and sickened by the latest campaign of N.O.W. (Nat’l Organization of Weenie-haters) to smear Focus on the Family — the sponsor of the infamous Pam/Tim Tebow ad — you know the one that argues that having a child is a good thing — so he can then abuse you. Now [...]

Stewart rips off The Venture Brothers

Jon Stewart is such a master of irony, he stole a joke about shop-lifting. The Daily Caller has the scoop on Stewart, who used this rather flat anecdote last night in regard to Sarah Palin’s palm-written speech notes.

“You really need to remind yourself to ‘lift American spirits?’” Stewart asked Palin sarcastically, referring to one [...]

How Dare They?!?

Here is that outrageous and woman-hating anti-choice Tim Tebow ad that those homophobic zombie-worshiping Christianists aired in the Super Bowl pre-game. Stay tuned during the game for more woman-hating propaganda. Watch it — if you can.

/snark off/ Anyone who sees anything sinister in this ad needs some serious spiritual help. You [...]

A Comic Cunundrum…

First… kudos to Marvel for setting the upcoming Captain America movie back in the 1940s so they could make him more patriotic. Jeers for thinking that only the 1940s would support a flag-waving (and wearing) patriot without any risk of eye-rolling. I’ve always thought Cap would be difficult to film — I mean [...]

BHO Should Watch MTM

Mike posted yesterday on BHO’s outrageously narcissistic “buried in an Obama T-shirt” moment. That made me think of this… it’s a little out of context, but the first two parts of the Chuckles the Clown episode are on YouTube (for now) to flesh it out. There’s a way for such things to be [...]

It’s Just The Way They Are!