The Barrel Is Always Deeper – Part 5
This is the fifth of a series devoted to the notion that, despite what passes for a ‘reality show’ today, there is always room for marketing a less meaningful or suitable concept. (more…)
Archive for July, 2014
Classic TV Perspective # 1
Late last year on YouTube, numerous episodes of a classic television legal drama were posted, at long last. This one-hour program, on ABC for two seasons from 1967-1969, is still not available on DVD, though yours truly has been periodically checking on-line for years.
“JUDD for the DEFENSE (U.S. spelling)” starred Carl Betz, probably best known previously for co-starring in a long-running family comedy. His lead character loosely based on a famous U.S. attorney of the time, this show dealt in a sincere and intelligent way with a number of issues of social, racial, and cultural justice. Although his charming, yet direct, and crusading character had a winning style with the courts (ably assisted by appropriately named Canadian actor Stephen Young), endings were not always clearly victories, at times even left unresolved. (more…)
the watch of time 
“Just a moment, please”
It still happens. It happened again today.
I was making a phone call to set up a dental appointment, and was put on hold at the clinic. I wasn’t surreptitiously ignored, but was given the verbal rote “Just a moment, please”. As usual, this proved to be an extremely inaccurate time frame, as I hung up unfulfilled after a couple of minutes. Fortunately for me, it wasn’t an urgent issue, so I could afford to be pro-active. (more…)
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