Saturday, December 19, 2015
Classic Television - Prime time
Getting Together
Original channel
ABC
Original run
September 18, 1971 – January 8, 1972
September 18, 1971 – January 8, 1972
Starring
Jack Burns
Pat Carroll
Susan Neher
Bobby Sherman
Wes Stern
Getting Together is an American musical situation comedy, which aired on the ABC television network during the 1971-72 season. It stars Bobby Sherman and Wes Stern as Bobby Conway and Lionel Poindexter, a songwriting duo. The pilot for the series had aired the previous spring the first season finale episode of The Partridge Family named "A Knight in Shining Armor", where Lionel and Bobby were introduced to each other by the Partridges.
Sherman and Stern's characters were reportedly based on the real-life songwriting team of Boyce and Hart, who had written hits for The Monkees ("Last Train to Clarksville", "Valleri"), Jay and the Americans ("Come a Little Bit Closer"), and others. New music of course was a staple of the series, provided by much of the same team that created the Partridge Family songs and records. Most of these songs were from two Bobby Sherman albums -- Getting Together and Just For You.
The 100 Greatest Lost Hits of The 80’s Part 2: The New Batch
From: NewNowNext
#59
“Supernatural Love”
Donna Summer
Donna followed up her huge 1983 album She Works Hard For The Money with 1984’s vastly underrated release Cats Without Claws, which would become her last top 40 album (peaking at #40) until 2008’s Crayons. She has a couple songs on this list, starting off with the second single from that album, “Supernatural Love” which would reach #75 in December 1984.
Academy Award for Best Actress
2012
Jennifer Lawrence
as
Tiffany Maxwell
Silver Linings Playbook
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Her first major role was as a lead cast member on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–09). She starred in the independent drama Winter's Bone (2010) while her first commercial success was the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011).
Lawrence gained international fame for playing heroine Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games film series (2012–15), which established her as the highest-grossing action heroine as of 2015. She starred in David O. Russell's romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012), for which she won a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the second-youngest Best Actress Oscar winner. For her supporting role in Russell's comedy-drama American Hustle (2013), she won a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Classic Television - Saturday Mornings
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
Original channel
CBS
Original run
September 13, 1969 – January 3, 1970
Starring
Paul Winchell
Don Messick
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines is a cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS. Originally the series was broadcast as a Saturday morning cartoon, airing from September 13, 1969 to January 3, 1970. The show focuses on the efforts of Dick Dastardly and his canine sidekick Muttley to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon, a carrier pigeon who carries secret messages (hence the name of the show’s theme song "Stop the Pigeon"). The cartoon was a combination of Red Baron-era Snoopy, Wacky Races (which featured Dastardly and Muttley in a series of car races), and the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
The show is widely known as Stop the Pigeon based on the show's original working title and the show's theme song, written by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (and based on the jazz standard "Tiger Rag") which repeats that phrase so often that it is frequently mistaken as the show's actual title. In the UK, the series remains best known by the shorter name Dastardly and Muttley.
The show had only two voice actors: Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly and the indistinctly heard General, and Don Messick as everybody else. Each 22-minute show was broadcast over half an hour on the network, including network breaks, and contained: two Dastardly & Muttley stories, one Magnificent Muttley story (Muttley's Walter Mitty-style daydreams), and two or three short Wing Dings (brief gags to break up the longer stories).
Today in History ...
December 19, 211 –
Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives, the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother, Julia Domna.
28 Of The Queerest Christmas Songs
From: Huffington Post
Bob Rivers
"The Twelve Pains Of Christmas"
This spirited, yet oh-so-true, parody of "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" is chuck full of not-so-subtle gay references.
If “Twelve Days Of Christmas” Were Written In 2015
From: BuzzFeed
On the sixth day of Christmas my true bae gave to me
Six tickets for my squad to see Britney’s Piece of Me.
