It's time to pay the bills......
Saturday, November 10, 2012
ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS BOND, JAMES BOND
Toobworld Central has accepted a character played by George Lazenby to have been one of the many British secret agents known by the code name of "James Bond" - thanks to the reunion TV movie for 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'
So now we may know what the real name of that character is:
MUD-SLINGING, 1800 STYLE
Are you tired of anything that has to do with political campaigns by now? Gee, that's too bad.....
AS SEEN ON TV: NICK VERLAINE
NICK VERLAINE
AS SEEN IN:
'How To Steal The Eiffel Tower'
ADAPTED FROM:
"The Nick Velvet Stories"
BY:
Edward D. Hoch
PORTRAYED BY:
Philippe Nicaud
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time, France
From Wikipedia:
'Nick Verlaine or How to steal the Eiffel Tower' is a series of six episodes in French sixty minutes, It aired from July to August 1976 on TF1. The last of the six episodes never aired.
Directed by Claude Boissol , it tells the story of a thief, Nick Verlaine, sort of a modern Arsène Lupin, who generates larcenies more zany and daring, like stealing the Garonne, a sleeper, a cassette that is in the cage of a tiger, the Loch Ness monster, and of course the Eiffel Tower, hence the title of the series.
List of episodes:
1- "Nick Verlaine takes the road," with Jean Rougerie (Poilvert), Virginie Vignon (Sylvette), Arch TAYLOR (Swedish), Jeanne HARDEYN (the Hungarian), Raymond BAECKER (Colonel), Claude Brovelli (TV presenter)
2- "Be kind to animals," with André Weber (Berutti), Jean Rougerie (Poilvert), Georges BEAUVILLIERS (Jo), Virginie Vignon (Sylvette), Achille ZAVATTA (Hagenfield)
3- "The daughter of the air" with Sandra MONTAIGU (Sirius), Carlo NEIL (the head nurse), Paul BISCIGLIA (the Commissioner), Claude Brovelli (TV presenter), Jean-Michel FARCY, François GUEDON
4- "In the water of a pool," with Jean Rougerie (Poilvert) SAND Michèle (Sylvie), Mony DALMES (Lydia Babcock), Alain ADAIR (Melville)
5- "The monster," with Edward MEEKS (Swift), Georges ATLAS (Tremolat), Billy Kearns (Crowder), Maryse MARTIN (Ms. Aubrac), Jean-Marie BON (the doctor), André Dumas.
6- This episode in which Nick VERLAINE stole the Garonne was never released.
Nick is a thief who works more to make impossible shots for profit. Philippe NICAUD who enjoyed success in the 60s with INSPECTOR Leclerc plays the role. Note the amazing musical theme due to SHUMAN.
To our knowledge, the series is available on the website of the INA.
During his long tenure with Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the prolific Edward D. Hoch entertained his fans with long-running series about several characters - the Gypsy King, Rand the Spymaster, and Dr. Sam Hawthorne of 1920's New England. My favorite was gentleman thief Nick Velvet, who hired himself out to steal only items of no value - a used teabag, a comb used by a bald man....
When Mr. Hoch passed away, I advocated a TV series based on Nick Velvet for American TV.
And a few months later, after reading a collection of Hoch's stories about Nick Velvet, I posted my own thoughts about casting such a series.
And I think the subject matter and main character would be perfect for reviving the half-hour mystery format of shows like 'Peter Gunn'.
Even if you don't speak or read French, you can see from the credits that in this TF1 series Nick Verlaine is based on Nick Velvet. But because his last name was changed, should Nick Velvet ever be portrayed on TV here in America, then both characters could comfortably exist in the same plane of "reality", Earth Prime-Time.
Had Philippe Nicaud portrayed Nick Velvet, then I might have no other choice but to ship the character off to the French Toobworld.
In the meantime, can't we get some Hollywood hotshot interested in bringing Nick Velvet to TV?
BCnU!
Friday, November 9, 2012
OBSERVATION OF MARIE CURIE'S BIRTHDAY?
I saw it noted on Facebook this week that November 7, 1867, Marie Curie, a two-time Nobel Prize winner in science, was born. To mark the occasion, the following photograph was published of Madame Curie:
These "alien" humans from the Future were inducted into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame thanks to their appearances in reality-based shows on Fox like NASCAR races, 'American Idol', football games. I made the case that one of them could also be seen in the background of an episode of 'Person Of Interest'.
http://toobworld.blogspot.com/2012/02/observing-person-of-interest.html
I'm hoping that even after 'Fringe' finally ends this season, we'll still see an Observer every so often in the episode of some show, no matter what the network is. Certain shows would be natural - 'Doctor Who', 'Mad Men', 'The Big Bang Theory'. But it could be anywhere.
I'm still hoping to find them in other shows long since cancelled. All it takes would be a bald man in a business suit with a fedora.
In the meantime, I'll take this pozz'ble sighting from the real world!
[My thanks to Tay Mueller for bringing this to my attention.]
BCnU!
ECHOES: THE SUNSHINE STATE
"Everything weird ends up in Florida."
Arthur Dales
'The X-Files'
"A lot of weird stuff happens in South Florida."
Penelope Garcia
'Criminal Minds'
BCnU!
AS SEEN ON TV: GARLIN FINCHER
GARLIN FINCHER
AS SEEN IN:
"The 11th Victim"
CREATED BY:
Nancy Grace
PORTRAYED BY:
Metta World Peace (Ron Artest)
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time, also Earth Prime-Time/MOTW
Garlin Fincher is the adviser and confidante to the story's heroine, Hailey Dean. He's a former cop about to ship out to Afghanistan.
From Deadspin.com:
Ron Artest IS Metta World Peace IS Garlin
Fincher, a veteran detective trading the mean streets of Atlanta for the wilds
of Afghanistan. His reasons are his own, his methods unorthodox, but he always
gets his man.
From Wikipedia:
Nancy Grace's first work of fiction, "The Eleventh
Victim", also published by Hyperion, was released on August 11, 2009.
The mystery thriller follows a young psychology student, Hailey Dean, whose
fiancé is murdered just weeks before their wedding. She goes on to prosecute
violent crime and is forced to reckon with what she left behind. Publishers'
Weekly described it as "less than compelling."
QUOTE:
"You can't quit because of one crazy scumbag."
BCnU!
Thursday, November 8, 2012
O'BSERVATIONS: MEDDLING KIDS
From TV Tropes:When the evil character is finally brought to justice, he claims that he would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those "meddling kids" (or whoever it was who foiled his plot). He may be evil, but he gives credit where credit is due. The classic form is, "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!" The use of the phrase "meddling kids" is a classic Shout Out to Scooby-Doo.
'Perry Mason' is shown twice a day on ME-TV, 10 am and 11:30 pm. I watched an episode of 'Perry Mason' on Tuesday - "The Case Of The Frightened Fisherman". And at the end, the killer (No spoilers!) jumped up and shouted "And I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you!"
This confused me because the person being talked to was not a meddling kid......
I suppose in a way, this could have been constructed as one of the "Echoes" posts.....
BCnU!
AS SEEN ON TV: ALLISON MACKENZIE
ALLISON MACKENZIE
AS SEEN IN:
'Peyton Place'
CREATED BY:
Grace Metalious
PORTRAYED BY:
Mia Farrow
TV STATUS:
Multiversal
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time
From Wikipedia:
In the first episode, Dr. Michael Rossi (Ed Nelson) arrives from New York City to set up practice in town. Newspaper editor Matthew Swain (Warner Anderson) tells him people usually try to get away from towns like Peyton Place, not move to them.
Matthew's third cousin Allison MacKenzie (Mia Farrow), a close friend of classmate Norman Harrington (Christopher Connelly), has begun to fall in love with his older brother Rodney (Ryan O'Neal); she is smitten as soon as they share their first kiss. At the end of the episode, Allison's mother, Constance (Dorothy Malone) makes it clear she disapproves of her daughter's newfound relationship with Rodney.
Matthew's third cousin Allison MacKenzie (Mia Farrow), a close friend of classmate Norman Harrington (Christopher Connelly), has begun to fall in love with his older brother Rodney (Ryan O'Neal); she is smitten as soon as they share their first kiss. At the end of the episode, Allison's mother, Constance (Dorothy Malone) makes it clear she disapproves of her daughter's newfound relationship with Rodney.
[Allison was ] the quiet and smart daughter of
Constance. She likes to spend her time reading books and usually befriends older
people. She also becomes romantically involved with Rodney several times.
In the original novel, Allison was the illegitimate daughter of Constance MacKenzie, the owner of a clothing store in Peyton Place, a small community in New Hampshire, and an imported fabric store owner also named Allison MacKenzie (in the movie, her father was named Angus, and in the television series, he was a New York City businessman named James).
Three years after she was born, her father died. Constance and her mother, Elizabeth Standish, deliberately changed the year of birth on her birth certificate to make Allison seem a year younger than she really was. This led to quite a lot of friction between mother and daughter. Allison was sensitive and dreaming, unlike her practical and often distant mother. The friction between the two would escalate as Allison grew up.
In the television series, Allison is the daughter of Constance. Her father is believed to be an unknown man in a photo. Her real father ended up to be Elliot Carson, a wrongly convicted man. Constance doesn't want her daughter to know who her real father is. Allison reads a lot and doesn't have a lot of friends of her own age. She is good friends with Matthew Swain, an older man who works at the newspaper and she prefers to call uncle Matt.
She falls in love with the popular Rodney Harrington. They date for a short period, before Rodney knocks up Betty Anderson and marries her. He later admits he planned to runaway town with her if Betty hadn't gotten pregnant. After Rodney and Betty are divorced, he and Allison begin dating again, but Rodney's arrest for murder and Allison's coma (see below) tend to get in the way.
When Elliot is released from jail he returns to Peyton Place. Constance is afraid the truth will come up and tries to keep her away from him. However, she and Elliot become good friends after they find out they share the same interests. In this period, Allison also became good friends with her teacher Paul Hanley, the man who testified against Elliot in court.
She ends up finding out who Elliot really is and her good relationship with her mother was strained from that point forward. Even when Constance and Elliot get married, she does not approve. Meanwhile, she becomes the babysitter of Kim Schuster, a deaf 6-year old. Kim's father David Schuster constantly flirts with her.
Her bond with Kim ended abruptly when Marion Fowler involves her in a car accident. Allison is sent into a coma for several weeks. When she came out of it, she suffered from amnesia and couldn't remembered the entire past year. Therefore she didn't recognize Elliot as her father. The emotional package eventually became too much for her and she suffered a nervous breakdown. She ended up cutting her hair.
As noted above, in this period, she again had a relationship with Rodney. However, he couldn't handle her anymore and broke it off. She later became close to the blind Chris Webber. Chris was believed to be blinded by Ann Howard, but he confessed it was actually his brother Lee Webber who was responsible. Allison was nearly capable of handling all the emotional baggage until Ann died, when she decided to leave town.
Two television movies followed. The first; "Murder in Peyton Place" was broadcast on NBC in the fall of 1977. Billed as a reunion movie it focused on the mysterious deaths of Rodney Harrington and Allison MacKenzie, as well as a diabolical plot of a powerful person to ruin the community. It reunited original cast members Dorothy Malone, Ed Nelson, Tim O'Connor, Joyce Jillson, and Christopher Connelly.
The second; "Peyton Place: The Next Generation" which aired in the spring of 1985 on NBC, was conceived as a one-shot sequel, that would hopefully revive the popular series and was therefore also promoted as a television pilot. Although a new series of the show never came to fruition; the film did reunite original cast members Dorothy Malone, Ed Nelson, Tim O'Connor, James Douglas, Christopher Connelly, Ruth Warwick and Barbara Parkins, who had declined to appear in "Murder in Peyton Place".
In the original novel, Allison was the illegitimate daughter of Constance MacKenzie, the owner of a clothing store in Peyton Place, a small community in New Hampshire, and an imported fabric store owner also named Allison MacKenzie (in the movie, her father was named Angus, and in the television series, he was a New York City businessman named James).
Three years after she was born, her father died. Constance and her mother, Elizabeth Standish, deliberately changed the year of birth on her birth certificate to make Allison seem a year younger than she really was. This led to quite a lot of friction between mother and daughter. Allison was sensitive and dreaming, unlike her practical and often distant mother. The friction between the two would escalate as Allison grew up.
In the television series, Allison is the daughter of Constance. Her father is believed to be an unknown man in a photo. Her real father ended up to be Elliot Carson, a wrongly convicted man. Constance doesn't want her daughter to know who her real father is. Allison reads a lot and doesn't have a lot of friends of her own age. She is good friends with Matthew Swain, an older man who works at the newspaper and she prefers to call uncle Matt.
She falls in love with the popular Rodney Harrington. They date for a short period, before Rodney knocks up Betty Anderson and marries her. He later admits he planned to runaway town with her if Betty hadn't gotten pregnant. After Rodney and Betty are divorced, he and Allison begin dating again, but Rodney's arrest for murder and Allison's coma (see below) tend to get in the way.
When Elliot is released from jail he returns to Peyton Place. Constance is afraid the truth will come up and tries to keep her away from him. However, she and Elliot become good friends after they find out they share the same interests. In this period, Allison also became good friends with her teacher Paul Hanley, the man who testified against Elliot in court.
She ends up finding out who Elliot really is and her good relationship with her mother was strained from that point forward. Even when Constance and Elliot get married, she does not approve. Meanwhile, she becomes the babysitter of Kim Schuster, a deaf 6-year old. Kim's father David Schuster constantly flirts with her.
Her bond with Kim ended abruptly when Marion Fowler involves her in a car accident. Allison is sent into a coma for several weeks. When she came out of it, she suffered from amnesia and couldn't remembered the entire past year. Therefore she didn't recognize Elliot as her father. The emotional package eventually became too much for her and she suffered a nervous breakdown. She ended up cutting her hair.
As noted above, in this period, she again had a relationship with Rodney. However, he couldn't handle her anymore and broke it off. She later became close to the blind Chris Webber. Chris was believed to be blinded by Ann Howard, but he confessed it was actually his brother Lee Webber who was responsible. Allison was nearly capable of handling all the emotional baggage until Ann died, when she decided to leave town.
Two television movies followed. The first; "Murder in Peyton Place" was broadcast on NBC in the fall of 1977. Billed as a reunion movie it focused on the mysterious deaths of Rodney Harrington and Allison MacKenzie, as well as a diabolical plot of a powerful person to ruin the community. It reunited original cast members Dorothy Malone, Ed Nelson, Tim O'Connor, Joyce Jillson, and Christopher Connelly.
The second; "Peyton Place: The Next Generation" which aired in the spring of 1985 on NBC, was conceived as a one-shot sequel, that would hopefully revive the popular series and was therefore also promoted as a television pilot. Although a new series of the show never came to fruition; the film did reunite original cast members Dorothy Malone, Ed Nelson, Tim O'Connor, James Douglas, Christopher Connelly, Ruth Warwick and Barbara Parkins, who had declined to appear in "Murder in Peyton Place".
BCnU!
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