Hi, Kirk! That derned reaper is determined to keep you posting every single day, good buddy. I knew you wouldn't let this one slide, and now there's the horrible story about the former Miss U.S.A. I clicked and revisited your 2018 post on Howard Hesseman. I would have written today much the same things I wrote back then. I acknowledge Hesseman as having been a talented actor, but didn't care that much for the series and character for which he is best known. In addition to his recent appearances on Fresh Off The Boat, I saw Howard in CSI, Lie To Me, ER,Psych, Boston Legal, That 70's Show, Touched By An Angel and The Practice. He was a gifted and versatile actor. Thanks for remembering him again today. Have a great week, good buddy Kirk!
Shady, is your aversion to WKRP in Cincinatti have anything to do with having been in radio yourself? Maybe you found the show unrealistic. Anyway, along with the shows you mention, I'd like to add that Hesseman was on several episodes of The Bob Newhart Show, I believe as a different patient of Bob Hartley each time. In one he's an unemployed TV writer, and another a gay man. Hesseman was also a semi-regular on the last few years of the original One Day at a Time as Ann Romano's husband, as well as the father of the man that marries Ann's daughter Barbara. Then there's Head of the Class, in which Hesseman played high school teacher Charlie Moore. I found that series only so-so, but Hesseman was very good in it. Finally, you can see him in all things, the early 1970's movie Billy Jack. He's performing as a member of The Committee, a real-life San Francisco improvisational comedy troupe that he belonged to at the time
Hi, Kirk! To answer your question, good buddy, I wasn't in radio. I was in TV. (I was also an astronaut, jet plane test pilot and C.I.A. agent.) Moreover, realism has nothing to do with it. I simply didn't like the characters and didn't think the show was funny. Perhaps if I had stuck with it, they and their series would have grown on me.
Oh, OK. I thought maybe because of the emphasis on disc jockeys on your own blog, you were first in radio than segued to television. I guess I shouldn't have--as Felix Ungar once put it--assumed that. On this blog I do TV, movies, comics, music, occasionally politics (Shadow of a Doubt's original focus) and have not been involved with any of that, other than as a spectator.
No knowledge at all, but fancy being sacked for saying booger. We are getting quite close to swearing not being beeped out by media. The C word will be an exception I think.
In order to keep the hucksters, humbugs, scoundrels, psychos, morons, and last but not least, artificial intelligentsia at bay, I have decided to turn on comment moderation. On the plus side, I've gotten rid of the word verification.
While I never got into watching WKRP, one of my friends did. And so I know the theme song by heart.
ReplyDeleteJM, you weren't living on the air in Cincinatti, Cincinatti WKRP?
DeleteHe was always a favourite of mine. RIP
ReplyDeleteMine, too, Debra. WKRP had a great cast.
ReplyDeleteHi, Kirk! That derned reaper is determined to keep you posting every single day, good buddy. I knew you wouldn't let this one slide, and now there's the horrible story about the former Miss U.S.A. I clicked and revisited your 2018 post on Howard Hesseman. I would have written today much the same things I wrote back then. I acknowledge Hesseman as having been a talented actor, but didn't care that much for the series and character for which he is best known. In addition to his recent appearances on Fresh Off The Boat, I saw Howard in CSI, Lie To Me, ER,Psych, Boston Legal, That 70's Show, Touched By An Angel and The Practice. He was a gifted and versatile actor. Thanks for remembering him again today. Have a great week, good buddy Kirk!
ReplyDeleteShady, is your aversion to WKRP in Cincinatti have anything to do with having been in radio yourself? Maybe you found the show unrealistic. Anyway, along with the shows you mention, I'd like to add that Hesseman was on several episodes of The Bob Newhart Show, I believe as a different patient of Bob Hartley each time. In one he's an unemployed TV writer, and another a gay man. Hesseman was also a semi-regular on the last few years of the original One Day at a Time as Ann Romano's husband, as well as the father of the man that marries Ann's daughter Barbara. Then there's Head of the Class, in which Hesseman played high school teacher Charlie Moore. I found that series only so-so, but Hesseman was very good in it. Finally, you can see him in all things, the early 1970's movie Billy Jack. He's performing as a member of The Committee, a real-life San Francisco improvisational comedy troupe that he belonged to at the time
DeleteHi, Kirk! To answer your question, good buddy, I wasn't in radio. I was in TV. (I was also an astronaut, jet plane test pilot and C.I.A. agent.) Moreover, realism has nothing to do with it. I simply didn't like the characters and didn't think the show was funny. Perhaps if I had stuck with it, they and their series would have grown on me.
DeleteOh, OK. I thought maybe because of the emphasis on disc jockeys on your own blog, you were first in radio than segued to television. I guess I shouldn't have--as Felix Ungar once put it--assumed that. On this blog I do TV, movies, comics, music, occasionally politics (Shadow of a Doubt's original focus) and have not been involved with any of that, other than as a spectator.
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ReplyDeleteNo knowledge at all, but fancy being sacked for saying booger. We are getting quite close to swearing not being beeped out by media. The C word will be an exception I think.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, once swearing becomes acceptable, is still swearing?
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