R.I.P. Andy Rooney
I’ve been a fan of Andy Rooney for a long time. Perhaps it was his wit, perhaps his wisdom, perhaps the eyebrows. Mostly, I think it was this: He looked a lot like my grandfather and said things I wished I had the guts to say… not to mention an uncanny ability to see humor [...]
Do What You Love
Stephen J. Cannell didn’t produce every show on television during the late 1970s and ’80s—it just seemed like he did. The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, The Rockford Files, 21 Jump Street, etc., etc. For 30 years, beginning in the early 1970s and extending through the 1990s, television viewers could hardly go a week without [...]
And That's The Way It is
He was ending his notable career as I was entering Kindergarten, and yet even at that young age it was impossible to not feel the effects of the man who was notably regarded as the ‘most trusted man in America’. On my grandparents old console TV, which was more a piece of furnature than it [...]
Bea Arthur, 86, RIP
Beatrice Arthur could get a huge laugh with just a long, hard, silent stare. When she opened her mouth, her ringingly authoritative voice brought forth another wave of laughter. To defy her as Maude Findlay in Maude, or as Dorothy Zbornak in Golden Girls, was foolish: she’d crush you. No one upstaged Bea Arthur, yet [...]