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Post by kims on Feb 22, 2024 21:18:17 GMT
I love Mitchum, I can't believe I missed his appearance on SNL.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Feb 23, 2024 0:50:42 GMT
I love Mitchum, I can't believe I missed his appearance on SNL. I love Mitchum also, but in 1987 I was just starting to get into classic film and TCM wasn't around. Thus I didn't see this at that time. But I did see this SNL episode as a re-run many years after 1987. |
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Post by intrepid37 on Feb 23, 2024 13:09:24 GMT
I love Mitchum, I can't believe I missed his appearance on SNL. I love Mitchum also, but in 1987 I was just starting to get into classic film and TCM wasn't around. Thus I didn't see this at that time. But I did see this SNL episode as a re-run many years after 1987. It's with enormous regret that I did not record to VHS every episode of SNL in its entirety throughout the 40 something year run that it's had. The refusal to release DVD's of entire seasons is what's behind this regret. Also, the subsequent censoring of events after the initial live broadcast being lost. Without access to so much of SNL's on-air history, I feel the loss of memories I'd like to revisit acutely. All that could have been prevented if I'd only been wise enough to tape the shows every Saturday night and retained them in my possession. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 23, 2024 13:54:38 GMT
I love Mitchum also, but in 1987 I was just starting to get into classic film and TCM wasn't around. Thus I didn't see this at that time. But I did see this SNL episode as a re-run many years after 1987. It's with enormous regret that I did not record to VHS every episode of SNL in its entirety throughout the 40 something year run that it's had. The refusal to release DVD's of entire seasons is what's behind this regret. Also, the subsequent censoring of events after the initial live broadcast being lost. Without access to so much of SNL's on-air history, I feel the loss of memories I'd like to revisit acutely. All that could have been prevented if I'd only been wise enough to tape the shows every Saturday night and retained them in my possession. They're pretty random about what they post on YouTube. None of Mitchum's skits, which is what I really would have liked to have seen. Lorne has certainly made his money by now; he should be more generous to fans. One clip I watched recently was a movie parody of 007, spoofing Connery's Scottish ancestry, although I suppose in today's climate it could considered "offensive". It was very elaborate considering it was live on set, not pre-recorded like that sort of thing is usually done these days. It's great seeing some of the old pros like John Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Nora Dunn, Jan Hooks and Victoria Jackson. And Sting as "Goldsting". Bullets Aren't Cheap, which is a perfect title. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 23, 2024 14:08:21 GMT
I love Mitchum, I can't believe I missed his appearance on SNL. I love Mitchum also, but in 1987 I was just starting to get into classic film and TCM wasn't around. Thus I didn't see this at that time. But I did see this SNL episode as a re-run many years after 1987. Do you remember anything about the skits he did? They usually had movie star hosts do some kind of parody of their own work, so I'd love to know. I must have seen it at the time but I have no memory of it. |
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Post by intrepid37 on Feb 23, 2024 14:56:04 GMT
I remember a skit with host Strother Martin - on the hunt for Cool Hand Luke using fluffy white poodles for the hunt.
There are thousands of SNL moments we can't see. It's heartbreaking.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 5, 2024 14:41:35 GMT
Goldie Hawn liked to sing and certainly never disgraced herself when she did it. She did two TV variety specials, Goldie in 1971 and The Goldie Hawn Special in 1978, which is the source of this number. She was a marvelous clown, so that generally figured into her musical numbers.
Goldie was also part of the all-star line-up of An Evening with Friends of the Environment, a network special from 1990., which ended with the cast doing this Louis Amstrong classic, which was just being rediscovered around that time.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 5, 2024 15:36:44 GMT
Jack Paar was a big deal on late night TV back in the day. He left the Tonight Show over a censorship issue and went on to a couple of iterations of his own nighttime format. He regularly featured interviews, as well as comic bits and musical numbers. The person who posted this was right to compare it to what Kimmel does in his Unnecessary Censorship segments; Paar doing it in 1963 was even edgier.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 5, 2024 15:58:24 GMT
For a classically trained dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov made a real impact on American popular culture, which didn't always find room for such elite professionals. But his genuine interest in American culture won lots of people over. This song and dance sequence from a 1980 TV variety special, Baryshnikov on Broadway, is a good example of how he did it, and he couldn't have chosen a better partner at that time than Liza Minnelli, who was then at the top of her own game.
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Post by dianedebuda on Mar 6, 2024 14:14:39 GMT
For a classically trained dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov made a real impact on American popular culture, which didn't always find room for such elite professionals. But his genuine interest in American culture won lots of people over. This song and dance sequence from a 1980 TV variety special, Baryshnikov on Broadway, is a good example of how he did it, and he couldn't have chosen a better partner at that time than Liza Minnelli, who was then at the top of her own game. |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 16, 2024 18:37:46 GMT
The Jerry Lewis Show
After his split from Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis had a few television specials in the late 1950s. I believe they all were called The Jerry Lewis Show. The series began its run in 1963, which I believe only went one season, then there were a couple more seasons from 1967 to 1969. A final attempt was made in 1984 to revive Lewis' program, but after a one-week trial, the notion was scrapped. Lewis just never really found his place in the ratings; though the program was moved around to different time slots, it was always aired against something more popular.
Here is The Jerry Lewis Show from October 1958:
The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon
Lewis' telethon definitely went through a number of changes through its run. Sometimes changes were the fault of clashes among behind-the-scenes personalities, contractual agreements/disputes, national and world events, or the changing social and technical times. But in its height of popularity during the late 1960s and through the 1970s, the telethon certainly was a true variety show featuring talk, comedy, magic, dance, and singing acts.
There were a number of smaller special programs with various titles to raise funds for what would become the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), but the first Labor Day telethon was broadcast in 1966. For, I'd say, nearly the first couple of decades, the program was truly a variety show, but as audience tastes changed, it morphed into a benefit concert format.
Though the program's original time slot was for 21 1/2 hours, it was drastically cut to six hours in the early 20-tens, and eventually to two hours. The program was telecast each year through 2014. In its forty-eight year run, the telethon raised around $2.5B.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 18, 2024 21:53:41 GMT
I mostly missed out on Benny Hill, though the local PBS station carried it for a while, but I couldn't resist posting this clip, mostly because I have to respect anyone who loves old movies enough to make fun of them, even though a big part of his audience probably didn't get the reference. SCTV was great at movie parody too.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 19, 2024 21:10:35 GMT
I just ran across this, though it seems to have been posted to coincide with Halloween. It's from the old Garry Moore Show in 1960, which was (I think) the third edition of a variety show with his name on it. Carol Burnett was a regular part of his resident comedy troupe at the time and I'm sure her time with Moore solidified her ideas about what she wanted her own eventual show to be like. She regularly performed skits and interacted with guests in musical numbers, like this one. It's also great seeing Boris Karloff kicking off the number. It's so odd imagining that this sweet old man was once the epitome of horror in film.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 26, 2024 14:45:44 GMT
I was on a Lily Tomlin kick in another thread so I thought I'd post something here from her 1975 ABC special, Vegas showbiz legend Bobbi-Jeanine, mistress of the keyboards at the airport lounge. There's nothing laugh-out-loud here, but it was part of her move away from comedy "bits" toward character-driven material, which won her both a Grammy, an Emmy and two Tonys. She's one shy of an EGOT, so that puts her in rare company. Love the dice in the hair.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 30, 2024 13:00:20 GMT
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