Teacher's Pet wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 4:08 pm Believe it. I saw this too and it was amazing. >>

JFV got it. It used to make me happy to know that Harry Belafonte was still alive. I remember him performing Turn The World Around on The Muppet Show.

Wood Goblin wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:49 pm

enframed wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:35 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:49 pm Jerry Springer

No huge loss there for the world, maybe for his family.

Debatable.

There were precursors (Donahue? Oprah?), and contemporaries (Montel? Maury?), but if nothing else, there's a case to be made that if Springer hadn't gotten into television this entertaining music video would have never existed:



I attended the MKE stop of the 1996 Warped tour, and though I wasn't a big fan of most of the bands, it was amusing to see CIV perform this.

Anyway, I guess Springer owned a home not that far from where I'm sitting. Would be tempted to view him less favorably if he hadn't admitted to being a purveyor of "trashy" entertainment. Springer didn't have delusions of grandeur. He didn't think he was doing "important work." This is the sign of a healthy ego for someone in his position, or really, any number of people operating in the more frivolous corners of the entertainment industry.

At least he wasn't a right-winger. He was a liberal Democrat and I imagine he had a fairly sizeable working class audience.

DaveA wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:38 pm

Wood Goblin wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:49 pm

enframed wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:35 pm
No huge loss there for the world, maybe for his family.

Debatable.

There were precursors (Donahue? Oprah?), and contemporaries (Montel? Maury?), but if nothing else, there's a case to be made that if Springer hadn't gotten into television this entertaining music video would have never existed:

Nothing wrong with Donahue, IMO; if anything he was the *only* truly empathetic host of this kind. Oprah may have started that way but ended in true trashy fashion, passing it off as a service to the world.

DaveA wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:38 pm
Anyway, I guess Springer owned a home not that far from where I'm sitting. Would be tempted to view him less favorably if he hadn't admitted to being a purveyor of "trashy" entertainment. Springer didn't have delusions of grandeur. He didn't think he was doing "important work." This is the sign of a healthy ego for someone in his position, or really, any number of people operating in the more frivolous corners of the entertainment industry.

Sounds like a stand-up guy, at least. Horrible show though.

I like the Curb Your Enthusiasm scene wherein Larry's watching one of these shows (Maury, I believe) and just lounging about eating a bag of Baked Lays, not a care in the world.

Cheryl comes into the room, disgusted that he's wasting his life, and he goes, "You don't KNOW ME!"

Gordon Lightfoot

This one is fucking me up. Probably the favorite music of my dad, who would have turned 79 this past Saturday. He went to college at Michigan Tech, on Lake Superior, in the late '60s. Listening to tracks here and crying. RIP.

Interesting little article about the making of Jerry Springer: The Opera here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/ ... reaked-out

jimmy spako wrote: Tue May 02, 2023 3:26 am This one is fucking me up. Probably the favorite music of my dad, who would have turned 79 this past Saturday. He went to college at Michigan Tech, on Lake Superior, in the late '60s. Listening to tracks here and crying. RIP.

I went there for 2 years ('83-'84 and '84-'85) and you can't look at the lake up there and not think about Edmund Fitzgerald and what those sorry dudes went through. If you've not seen it, Superior is MEAN and always cold and the beaches are nothing but rocks and pebbles.

My wife still spins "Sundown" fairly regularly. Dude had a real unique voice that is instantly recognizable. RIP Canadia singer

Rita Lee of Os Mutantes and later solo fame.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-b ... 35623.html