"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'." Groucho Marx
The Sports Guy reminded me of this classic moment from my youth. Battle of The Network Stars was cheesy, but it was fun. And as a big fan of Mr. Kotter and the Sweathogs I only have one thing to say, “Up your nose with a rubber hose.”
Ok, it was really funny when I was in elementary school.
My friend Robert tagged me with the 20 favorite actresses meme. I had to think about this one for a while.Â
In a time when Hollywood seems unable or unwilling to develop and execute new ideas for movies I’d like to take a crack at remaking The Love Boat.
I suppose that you can say that I got the idea from this story:
“(CNN) — A 30,000-ton luxury cruise ship outran pirates off the coast of Yemen this weekend, the ship’s owner said Monday.The Nautica was in an area patrolled by international anti-piracy task forces when two small skiffs appeared to try to intercept it, Oceania spokesman Tim Rubacky said.
The ship took evasive maneuvers and accelerated to its full speed of 23 knots or 27 mph. One of the smaller craft closed to within 300 yards and fired eight rifle shots at the cruise ship, he said, but the ship was able to pull away.
It was the first report of a pirate attack on a passenger ship of its size this year, said Cyrus Mody of the International Maritime Bureau, which runs a piracy reporting center.
“There have been a couple of passenger yachts hijacked, but they were much smaller,” he said. It is “quite common” for pirates to target ships the size of the Nautica and even larger, he said, but they tend to be cargo ships, not passenger vessels.”
In my Love Boat they’d have a series of adventures as they sailed through the horrible pirate blockade. There’d be lots of different characters:
A robot who’d say cool stuff like “Danger Shmata Queen”
A captain who’d be modeled sort of along the James T. Kirk character.
A goofy bartender who’d be a cross between Isaac and Moe.
And of course I’d make my own guest appearance as the quiet passenger who just happens to be an expert in whatever sort of expertise the plot of that episode required. Kind of a cross between Macguyver and the Professor.
It is rough, but there is potential. What do you think.
CNN is reporting that Harvey Korman has died. The great Hedley Lamarr is no more.
William Shatner said that having sex with fans was really hard because they always wanted him to beam them up.
In his new autobiography, Up Till Now, Shatner explains how women would pretend they were being “beamed up” by the Starship Enterprise commander, shrieking: “So, this is what it’s like to be in bed with Captain Kirk!”
He writes: “You can’t imagine how much of a downer that is in every sense of the word.”
I posted this video last year. I don’t have the energy to go digging through the archives to find it. It is a bit of a novelty, but then again I know more than one Asian Jew. At one point there were two active members of the Jblogosphere, but one has since retired.
Are there any others out there? Just curious. In the meantime go read about Winston’s New Kippah.