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7896. Macnas - 10/7/2005 9:41:05 AM We had a show, called Wanderly Wagon. I was aged ahead of it, as in a bit too old to watch it, but I still did, as did everyone else. It ran from the end of the 60's to sometimes in the 80's I think.
You have to know, television in those days did not start until 4.30pm or so, and went off the air before 12.oo. There was only one channel and whatever was on was all that was on.
There was a dog puppet character on it, called Judge, who thankfully is still around today. He is still my very favourite all time TV memory. The Lamberts, the family of puppeteers who were responsible, are still very active in the puppet theater.
 7897. Ulgine Barrows - 10/7/2005 10:09:47 AM You poor child, never having Dark Shadows. 7898. jayackroyd - 10/7/2005 1:04:22 PM TV for us came on at 6am and went off after the late movie on CBS. I still remember, verbatim, the CBS affiliate's sign-on, WGAN, owned by the Gannet family.
Three stations, one per network, plus PBS. The Captain was a morning show on CBS. There was an NBC show, Romper Room, directed at younger kids that came on, I think, after the late show. Seems to me that Romper Room had kids on it; a common kids show element of the time was audience participation in a segment. "Look Mom, I'm on TV." When I visited my grandmother in New Hampshire, we'd watch, on Saturday, out of Boston, Rex Trailer's Boomtown. This was a cowboy-themed show where there was a segment where kids marched past a camera, waving.
Chicago featured Bozo the Clown, which has similar elements, which I only know about from recounting of people from the area. There were local Bozos in other places, I believe.
At the end of the day, a guy named Lloyd Knight (he went to our church) played "Captain Lloyd," a seafarer who introduced movies and cartoons.
7899. thoughtful - 10/7/2005 3:51:27 PM I'm reading a book now...rather listening as i get books on tape out of the library...that is quite something. The Cruelest Miles. The true story of the outbreak of diphtheria in Nome Alaska in the 1920s and the dog sled relay to deliver the serum. The race was the inspiration for the iditarod. The story of the heart shown by the sled dogs and the raw guts and endurance by the mushers has brought tears to my eyes several times. It is an amazing story.
It is so much what we need today and so much what we don't have. Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?
Some of the stories of the intelligence shown by the lead dogs are really unbelievable...make lassie look like a piker.
These guys are mushing through literally blinding blizzards...the snow freezes their eyelashes together and they can't see...the wind howls so loudly they can't hear. The trail obscured by snow, only the lead dog can find his way through scent to stay on the trail. In January in the pitch dark with only 4 hrs of sunlight a day. Temperatures 60 below. Wind speeds of 65 mph. Skin freezing solid with only 30 sec. of exposure to the air. Blood vessels in the dogs lungs bursting from the cold and they start drowning in their own blood, but continue to run until they literally collapse. Un-freakin'-believable.
If any of you have ever hiked, you will appreciate this...the team that did the longest run did a stretch of trail that required climbing 8 mountain ridges, ascending a total of 5000 feet...in the cold, in the dark, they averaged 8 mph...and that was after days of running to get to where they had to pick up the serum...hundreds of miles.
Un-freakin'-believable. 7900. wabbit - 10/7/2005 4:06:21 PM 
7901. thoughtful - 10/7/2005 6:04:35 PM thanks wabbit...that's bolto, just one of the dogs on the trail. 7902. wonkers2 - 10/9/2005 11:46:53 PM Anybody else read Joan Didion's piece in the NYT Magazine last week about her husband's sudden death? It was vivid enough to make you feel you were there when he was stricken, at the hospital and later. But ever since "Play it as it Lays" I've had reservations about Didion which I can't put my finger on. Is it that her style's a bit too precious or that she tries too hard to be contrarian or something else? Robert Pinsky, the reviewer of her new book, "The Year of Magical Thinking," couldn't say enough nice things about the book and about Didion. Maybe it's her support of Goldwater in '64 or beginning her career at the National Review or her take on Schaivo that put me off. Any Didion fans out there?
She does have a clever way with words, but I'm not sure I agree with what they add up to.??? 7903. Macnas - 10/11/2005 11:20:42 AM Our own John Banville wins the Booker prize this year, with his book "The Sea".
7904. Magoseph - 10/11/2005 12:41:49 PM Is it that her style's a bit too precious or that she tries too hard to be contrarian or something else?
I didn’t find the style precious in "Play as it Lays" and I thought the language was rather more literal than figural. 7905. Magoseph - 10/11/2005 12:43:57 PM Again:
Is it that her style's a bit too precious or that she tries too hard to be contrarian or something else?
I didn’t find the style precious in "Play as it Lays" and I thought the language was rather more literal than figural. 7906. alistairconnor - 10/11/2005 12:56:16 PM Once more with feeling? 7907. PelleNilsson - 10/13/2005 3:40:03 PM The Nobel prize for literature was awarded to Harold Pinter. A good choice, in my opinion. 7908. wonkers2 - 10/13/2005 4:25:22 PM I wasn't aware of Pinter's activism on Iraq and other international issues until I googled him just now. But I've seen a couple of his plays and movies. There's is never a shortage of something to talk about after seeing a Pinter play. I think of Pinter's work as being similar to Ionesco and Edward Albee. But it's been a long time since I've seen anything by any of them. 7909. Ms. No - 10/13/2005 6:09:21 PM I remember a college professor of mine trying to teach Pinter in an acting class. She never told anyone that they got it right, but the problem was a bit more complicated than that. No, no one got it right, but that's because she couldn't explain it properly.
I never really "got" Pinter until I saw the film The Comfort of Strangers. It was a huge "Ah-HA!" moment and I couldn't gush over the man enough. 7910. PelleNilsson - 10/13/2005 6:58:12 PM Many Swedes, including myself, had hoped that the poet Tomas Tranströmer, a perennial candidate, would get it. I don't read much poetry because I don't have the sensibility for it, but these lines, read many years ago, stuck in my mind.
One day in mid-life,
Death will pay you a visit,
And take your measure.
You will not notice,
But the costume will be made,
And when your day comes,
It will fit, perfectly.
(Culled from memory and in my free translation) 7911. wonkers2 - 10/13/2005 7:53:28 PM Nice poem. 7912. judithathome - 10/13/2005 10:58:12 PM never really "got" Pinter until I saw the film The Comfort of Strangers. It was a huge "Ah-HA!" moment and I couldn't gush over the man enough
I got Pinter long ago, but I have affection for anyone who even SAW Comfort of Strangers much less liked it! ;-) 7913. ScottLoar - 10/14/2005 12:58:10 AM Pelle,
I take that poem as a gift, thanks. 7914. alistairconnor - 10/14/2005 9:48:57 AM Pinter sort of oppressed my adolescence. A bit.
Not that I'm blaming him. Just that I "got" him way too early, or thought I did. I found him intensely depressing. Until an English lecturer from England explained the extremely dry, Cockney humour that underlies a lot of it. 7915. alistairconnor - 10/14/2005 9:50:39 AM I remember a film, probably Godard, where some 1968ard cultural revolutionaries write the names of every modern dramatist they can think of, then cross them off one by one until they are left with Brecht and Pinter.
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