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Designing Women on ‘Designing Women’ — A Mini-Reunion

Designing Women on ‘Designing Women’ — A Mini-Reunion
Throw Back TV hosted a wonderful script reading of the Designing Women pilot, and then followed it up with a 23-minute, moderated chat featuring series stars Jean Smart and Annie Potts and creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. The NEW South! (GIF via GIPHY) The table read was to raise money for Color of Change and World Central…
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Coke Canning Tab, Bassey’s Bad-Ass Comeback, Lansbury’s 95th & More!

Coke Canning Tab, Bassey’s Bad-Ass Comeback, Lansbury’s 95th & More!
Links to the past, with relevance today: Tab's ads were calorie harpers. (Image via Coca-Cola) WSJ: Coca-Cola is pulling the Tab — the '70s-tastic, one-calorie diet soda will no longer exist by 2021. Tiara I breathe ... (Image via Chris Jackson/Canadian Government) PEOPLE: The Queen of England, 94, has posed for her first official portrait…
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Von Trapps Mask Up!

Von Trapps Mask Up!
The hills are alive ... and they intend to stay that way! The Von Trapps didn't survive the Nazis to let more Nazis tell them not to wear masks! (Images via Twitter) The five surviving actors who played the Von Trapp kids in The Sound of Music (1965) — Nicholas Hammond/Friedrich (b. 1950), Duane Chase/Kurt…
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All 8 U.S. Presidents Who Have Died in Office

All 8 U.S. Presidents Who Have Died in Office
It is unprecedented for a sitting U.S. president to become seriously ill in the month before a national election. Changing of the guard (Image via New York Herald Tribune) Since Trump confirmed Friday, October 2, that he and First Lady Melania Trump had contracted COVID-19, probably during a Rose Garden ceremony introducing his Supreme Court…
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The Movie That Inspired ‘Airplane!’

Yeah, yeah, the airplane-themed disaster flicks of the '70s certainly influenced 1980's hilarious parody Airplane! — but as many similarities as one can find between Airport '75 (1975) and Airplane! pales in comparison to the scenes in another movie that match the knock-off! (Image via Paramount) Zero Hour! was a histrionic suspenser from 1957 starring…
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Marlene Dietrich Rides Again

Marlene Dietrich Rides Again
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with what came before. She couldn't help it. (GIF via GIPHY) Yes, I loved Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Dungeons & Dragons and other '80s phenomena, but I spent an inordinate amount of time watching all things black-and-white, including the films of everyone from Abbott & Costello to Marilyn…
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JFK’s Flag Found, Moreno Honored, Quaid for Trump & More!

JFK’s Flag Found, Moreno Honored, Quaid for Trump & More!
Links to the past with relevance today: Is it the real deal? (Image via Antiques Roadshow) ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: In 2017, Antiques Roadshow declined to air an appraisal of a flag said to be from PT-109 because it was too difficult to determine provenance. If it's really from Kennedy's PT-109 — and the story is elaborate,…
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Sophia Loren Staten Island Style

Sophia Loren Staten Island Style
In honor of Sophia Loren's 86th birthday today, September 20, I am re-sharing my September 2016 post from when I paid to see her during a rare U.S. Q&A on Staten Island in NYC. It was a hot mess, but sooo worth it! Ciao! (All images & video by Matthew Rettenmund) September 2016: Last night,…
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‘Fast Times’ Gets A-List Table Read for Charity

‘Fast Times’ Gets A-List Table Read for Charity
Dane Cook (of all people) is spearheading a Zoom (whatever happened to Skype?!) table read of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) tonight, Thursday, September 17, at 9 p.m. ET. Love this flick! (Image via Universal) The read is a benefit, with proceeds going to Sean Penn's CORE nonprofit and to the REFORM Alliance. You…
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‘Golden Girls’ House View Blocked, Classic TV Deaths & More!

‘Golden Girls’ House View Blocked, Classic TV Deaths & More!
Links to the past, with relevance today: Thank you for ... moving along. (Image via Facebook) FACEBOOK: The new owners of the classic Golden Girls home are working hard to ... block the view, so fans can't see it anymore. Most of the shocking deaths weren't rescinded! (GIF via GIPHY) TV LINE: The 100 most…
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