Patrick Cranshaw has died at the age of 86…though not, sadly, immediately preceding a wrestling match with two topless women. If you don’t know who he is (and the title of this posting nor the preceding sentence don’t give you a clue), click here.
Author: Will Harris (Page 256 of 261)
Will is a member of the Television Critics Association and has written for Decider.com, the Onion A.V. Club, The Dissolve, Indiewire, Rhino.com, TV Week Magazine, The Virginian-Pilot, Popdose.com, and EW.com along with writing for Bullz-Eye.com and Premium Hollywood.
Did anyone else turn on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” last night solely out of morbid curiosity…?
I mean, I didn’t.
Well, not really, anyway. I would’ve turned it to ABC, anyway, out of habit as much as anything…but I DID really want to see how Dick Clark looked. It totally didn’t seem like a proper New Year’s Eve without Dick Clark hosting last year’s festivities, so I was glad to hear he was coming back this year…but then there was all that controversy about how they doctored up a photo so that they could have one of Clark with his “co-host” Ryan Seacrest together, and people wondered, “Well, geez, how bad off IS he?”
Well, he looked pretty much just like Dick Clark…but, man, as soon as he opened his mouth, there was no question that the man had had a stroke. At the party I was attending, people were, like, “Oh, my GOD, he sounds AWFUL!” And, okay, he didn’t have that booming, confident Dick Clark voice, no…but, still, the guy fought his way back from a stroke and, only a year later, he had accomplished enough in the way of recovery to be able to appear on camera (albeit in a studio rather than out on the street) and address the audience sporadically throughout the night. You almost wanted to applaud the guy. And, yet, lots of people at this party just kept going, “Oh, that’s so SAD!”
I don’t think it’s sad; I think it’s awesome.
Dick Clark has been a staple of my life for as long as I can remember, and I’m just glad he’s back…because when he’s really gone for good, I don’t forsee a need to turn on the TV on New Year’s Eve ever again.
“The Simpsons‘ 138th Episode Spectacular” came during the show’s 7th season. It’s a glorified clip show, basically, but there was some hilarious new material courtesy of the late Phil Hartman as Troy McClure.
(“Right about now, you’re probably saying, ‘Troy, I’ve seen every Simpsons episode. You can’t show me anything new.’ [menacingly] Well, you got some attitude, Mister.”)
When listening to the audio commentary, however, one finds out that Hartman so loved the character of Troy McClure that he was fully committed to and incredibly excited by the idea of doing a live-action Troy McClure movie.
Damn, damn, damn.
…or sticking your face in a fan.”
FINALLY, it looks like Police Squad, the 6-episode TV series that inspired the “Naked Gun” flicks, is coming to DVD.
News has leaked out that character acter Vincent Schiavelli has died of lung cancer at the age of 57. The sort of guy that FameTracker.com‘s Hey! It’s That Guy! section was made for – in fact, the site itself proclaims that, although the section is dedicated to J. T. Walsh, “without taking anything away from the late Mr. Walsh, we’d suggest that this section might just as well have been dedicated to Schiavelli” – our man Vincent was best known as the Sanka-drinking teacher Mr. Vargas in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It was not, however, by any means the extent of his career. You have to respect a guy whose resume includes appearances in not only Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest but also Night Shift and Dorf on Golf. You can check out Schiavelli’s entire career on the ever-popular IMDB.com, but, in the meantime, just put on Fast Times – never a hardship – as tribute.
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