Archive for October 28th, 2010

Obit watch.

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

James MacArthur, son of Helen Hayes, and the one, the only, the original, Danny “Danno” Williams.

No snark here. Instead, let’s pay tribute to the late Mr. MacArthur with a moment of something that’s not quite silence.

I have my problems with Jack Lord’s politics as reflected in the series, but the original series itself is vastly under-appreciated, I think. For sure, that opening credit sequence is, especially the helicopter zoom on Jack Lord. Here’s how they got that shot.

You realize, of course, everyone who gets a credit in that opening is dead. Jack Lord died in 1998, Gilbert Francis Lani Damian Kauhi (“Zulu”) in 2004, and Kam Fong in 2002.

The Washington Post makes me testy. (Part IV)

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

For this installment, I’m going to cover the three chat sessions associated with the WP series:

I’m going to go over all three of these chats in some detail, though I only plan to quote parts I find significant or enlightening. Since this is going to be long, I’ll insert a break here…

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But that trick never works!

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Officer Quintana has been fired. Again.

Get the popcorn, Ethyl.