ECCE PROMO: 3 GIRLS 3!

More and more, J.r. Klink is becoming a valued member of Team Toobworld with all of these video nuggets he keeps finding......

BCnU!

THE UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT

With the news of the cancellation of 'One Life To Live', it got me to thinking back to one of the more outrageous storylines from Llanview, Pennsylvania. It wasn't well-received critically, and I'm not too sure how the fans thought about it, but in the grand schemes of Toobworld? I thought it was fantastic!

Several of the show's characters found themselves trapped below the Earth in a lost underground civilization called "Eterna" (or "Eternia"). And that hidden realm tied into one of the stories to be found in 'Cliffhangers' back in the late 1970's - "The Secret Empire".

In that corner of the realm, the underground world was known as Chimera and was located under Wyoming. (I think my friend Mark came from Chimera.  He claims to be from Wyoming, but I don't know......)

So first up, here's a five part story culled from the Eterna storyline on 'One Life To Live':

Here's a taste of that old 'Cliffhangers' "serial".....

BCnU!

ADOLPH ON THE DOCTOR'S AGE

Here's your 'Doctor Who' related video for this Video Weekend.....

I figured, what the bleep.  Adolph's birthday and deathday are both coming up before the month is up......

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ETUBIRT LACISUM A

For fans of 'Twin Peaks', from fans of the series:

It's O'Bviously some alternate TV dimension dominated by Mr. Sweet the musical demon of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'......
 
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THE HAT SQUAD: TREVOR BANNISTER

My friend Michael Cleary is currently working on two more posts for Inner Toob, one of which would be about Mr. Lucas as seen in the early years of 'Are You Being Served?'

I offered to collect the frame grabs of Trevor Bannister, including some from his appearance in an episode of 'Keeping Up Appearances'. So apparently as I was doing so on Thursday, or probably a bit earlier due to the time difference, Mr. Bannister died of a heart attack.

Here's the scene he did with Hyacinth Bucket, as played by Patricia Routledge.....

Good night and may God bless.

BCnU......

AS SEEN ON TV: ANNA HELD

ANNA HELD

AS SEEN IN:
"Ziegfeld: The Man And His Women"

AS PLAYED BY:
Barbara Parkins

From Wikipedia:
Helene Anna Held (March 8, 1872 – August 12, 1918) was a Polish-born stage performer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband.

From 1905 Held enjoyed several successes on Broadway which apart from bolstering Ziegfeld's fortune, made her a millionaire in her own right. Ziegfeld's talent for creating publicity stunts ensured that Held's name remained well known. Held suggested the format for what would become the famous Ziegfeld Follies in 1907, and helped Ziegfeld establish the most lucrative phase of his career. Held could not perform in the first Follies in 1908 as she had become pregnant by Ziegfeld. She later miscarried or had an abortion.

In 1909 he began an affair with the actress Lilliane Lorraine. Held remained hopeful that his fascination would pass and he would return to her, but instead he turned his attentions to another actress Billie Burke, whom he would marry in 1914.

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NYC "CHARIOTS" FROM "GAME OF THRONES"

And here's what else you can find in Columbus Circle, NYC, NY today until 7 pm.  Apparently, the rides are complimentary, courtesy of HBO.....

Ecce Promo!

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WESTEROS - A NEW BOROUGH OF NYC

As a promotional stunt for Sunday night's premiere of 'Game Of Thrones' on HBO, the sword-throne featured in the print ads was set up in Union Square Park in New York on Thursday.

If everybody was like me out there, they wouldn't have had to bother with the display. I'm going to be recording the show and then rushing home from work in the morning to watch it.

It should go great with a bowl of cereal!

BCnU!

UPDATE!
Here's a Facebook message from "Game Of Thrones":

To all who wish to seize the Iron Throne in NYC, it will be in Columbus Circle today from 11am-7pm.

ON THE SOAP BOX

I don't know if ABC shocked the TV industry by canceling two of their veteran soap operas - 'All My Children' and 'One Life To Live' - but they certainly shocked those shows' viewers. Both had been on the air for over 40 years each. They had attention-grabbing storylines over the years, and 'AMC' created its own headlines when Susan Lucci, who played Erica Kane, went a record 18 years without winning the Daytime Emmy award for Best Actress. Meanwhile, Erika Slezak won six of the statuettes for playing Victoria Lord and holds the record for that feat.



Here's part of the statement released by ABC Daytime president Brian Fons:

“While we are excited about our new shows and the shift in our business, I can’t help but recognize how bittersweet the change is.  We are taking this bold step to expand our business because viewers are looking for different types of programming these days. They are telling us there is room for informative, authentic and fun shows that are relatable, offer a wide variety of opinions and focus on ‘real life’ takeaways."

Yeah, I'll just bet they are.

How do I read that? ABC wants to make more money for their executives (May they be nibbled to death by ducks!) by getting rid of all those expensive actors and by televising schlock instead.

What will replace these shows? 'The Chew', a food-themed talk show, and 'The Revolution' a lifestyle makeover show.

Wow. I bet they will have the audience hooked like 'Lost' used to do....

If those rich corporate bastards are going to be making so much money by putting people out of work, the government should start charging them for access to the airwaves.

Oh, I forgot. The government is owned by rich corporate bastards.

Okay, I admit that I didn't watch 'All My Children', but I did watch 'One Life To Live' for a few years back in the 1980's. (Dan Lauria, whom I knew in college, was in it at the time. And besides, if Mary Brooks like it.....)

And I never watched other recently departed soaps like 'Guiding Light', 'Another World', 'As The World Turns', 'Port Charles' and 'Passons'.  They may have all be losing audiences, but there were many people out there who did still watch them and who invested a lot in those worlds.

Toobworld becomes a little poorer with the loss of these shows.

The last episode for 'All My Children' will be in September of this year. 'One Life To Live' ends its run in January of 2012.....

BCnU!

AS SEEN ON TV: KAROL WOJTYLA

Today is the birthday of one of my dearest friends, Gosia Cleary, the mother of my god-daughter Rhiannon. And it's in her honor that today's "As Seen On TV" showcase features one of the greatest people to come out of her homeland......

KAROL WOJTYLA

AS SEEN IN:

"Pope John Paul II"

AS PLAYED BY:
Cary Elwes

From Wikipedia:
On completion of his studies at the seminary in Kraków, Karol Wojtyla was ordained as a priest on All Saints' Day, 1 November 1946, by the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Sapieha. He was then sent to study theology in Rome, at the Pontifical International Athenaeum Angelicum, where he earned a licentiate and later a doctorate in sacred theology. This doctorate, the first of two, was based on the Latin dissertation The Doctrine of Faith According to Saint John of the Cross. He returned to Poland in the summer of 1948 with his first pastoral assignment in the village of Niegowic, fifteen miles from Kraków. Arriving at Niegowic during harvest time, his first action was to kneel down and kiss the ground. This gesture, adapted from French saint Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, would become one of his ‘trademarks’ during his Papacy.

In March 1949, he was transferred to the parish of Saint Florian in Kraków. He taught ethics at the Jagiellonian University and subsequently at the Catholic University of Lublin. While teaching, Wojtyla gathered a group of about 20 young people, who began to call themselves Rodzinka, the "little family". They met for prayer, philosophical discussion, and helping the blind and sick. The group eventually grew to approximately 200 participants, and their activities expanded to include annual skiing and kayaking trips. In 1954 he earned a second doctorate, in philosophy, evaluating the feasibility of a Catholic ethic based on the ethical system of phenomenologist Max Scheler. However, the Communist authorities' intervention prevented his receiving the degree until 1957.

During this period, Wojtyla wrote a series of articles in Kraków's Catholic newspaper Tygodnik Powszechny ("Universal Weekly") dealing with contemporary church issues. He also focused on creating original literary work during his first dozen years as a priest. War, life under Communism, and his pastoral responsibilities all fed his poetry and plays. However, he published his work under two pseudonyms – Andrzej Jawien and Stanislaw Andrzej Gruda – to distinguish his literary from his religious writings (which were published under his own name) and also so that his literary works would be considered on their own merits. In 1960, Wojtyla published the influential theological book Love and Responsibility, a defence of the traditional Church teachings on marriage from a new philosophical standpoint. BCnU!