Show ‘Em The Lining Merv Griffin Dead at 82

Merv Griffin was a funny fellow. My main memories of him are from The Merv Griffin Show, where he often wore the loudest suits he could find and someone from the audience would yell out-Show Em The Lining, Merv! and he would open the suit jacket to reveal some blinding pattern of silk or satin. He joked that after all these years all anyone would remember him for was the lining of his sports coat. No chance of that.He also made a couple of game shows, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy being the ones that stood the test of time…

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2007 Emmy Nominations

HBO got 86 nominations and ABC got 70, even if a lot of them are for things like Casting and Art Direction, that’s a lot nominations. HBO’s Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee got the most nods with 17. Being a total Sci-Fi geek I always want to look and see how the oddball shows faired, not too bad, really. Now they just need to win a few times. EUREKA, First Eligible Year 2007 (This is a fun and silly show where the end of the world is always a possibility.)2007 – 1 nomination BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, First Eligible Year 2004…

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Ratatouille-Best Pixar Movie Ever

I’m sitting in a theater filled with children, parents of children, and more children. Ratatouille, outside of being cartoonish in appearance, is not really a kid’s movie, but the people at Pixar have finally figured out that kids make up a lot of their audience.There was one major flaw in Toy Story, the psychotic kid next door that liked to use extreme interrogation methods on his toys. That whole character should have been axed, and all the scenes with the little psycho were not good for kids to see. Nor were the mounds of dead superheros in The Incredibles. Nor,…

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