Wow. Just…wow. Tom Cruise must really have a hold on Katie Holmes. Then again, I never really cared for the girl, so he’s welcome to her. Still, the actress says she’s ready to have more kids. We can only assume she means with Cruise. Yes, of course. She even goes so far to say, “He’s a great father and so it came to no shock that when we had Suri he was amazing with the baby.”
Ah yes, those formative years of infancy where programming and brainwashing really take hold and never let go. Congrats on your own successful reprogramming, Katie.
Funnily enough, I just did an interview with Marty Krofft – soon to be posted on Bullz-Eye – where he and I discussed Charles Nelson Reilly’s role on “Lidsville” as the evil magician Horatio J. Hoo Doo (seen above). I always thought Reilly was a hoot, one of those staples of ’70s television who – rather unfairly, I thought – never managed to escape from his reputation as a staple of ’70s television. But the guy was a Tony-winning actor for “How To Succeed In Business Without Even Trying” who studied acting alongside Steve McQueen and Hal Holbrook, and although his film career never really took off (career highlight: “Cannonball Run II”), he stayed active on TV and doing animation voiceovers ’til the very end. His most memorable work in recent years…? I think you have to give it to his role as Jose Chung on “The X-Files,” a part he reprised on a later episode of “Millennium.” But he did a great comedic turn as himself on an episode of “The Larry Sanders Show,” and he also turned up on a couple of episodes of “The Drew Carey Show” as well.
Me, I always remember him for his role as Uncle Croc. “Uncle Croc’s Block” was a very, very short-lived Saturday morning series where Reilly played a crotchety kids show host, and although I have no idea how it would play for me today, at the time, I thought it was hilarious because it was so different from anything else on Saturday mornings as the time.
Sorry to see you go, Charles. Hopefully, one of these days, the film of your one-man show, “The Life of Reilly,” will make it to DVD…although there’s a line in this trailer for the film that isn’t nearly as funny any longer.
In the meantime, we’ll leave you with the final word on one thing you absolutely weren’t:
Hey, remember when Carol Burnett used to be funny? Well, apparently she couldn’t take it when “Family Guy” parodied her cleaning woman character that was always seen at the end of Burnett’s TV show and placed her in a sex shop in a 2006 episode. She sued. However, a judge just dismissed the case, and Peter Griffin is once again a guilty free man. Not guilt-free, mind you. So all is right in the world once again and Carol can try to scrape up a couple mil somewhere else for another face lift.
Ty Pennington. Who would have ever thought this goofball woule eke out such a large career after his stint on “Trading Spaces?” But Ty is just like every other celebrity, kids. Yep, he’s pleaded no contest to a DUI. He was charged with driving drunk, and being over the legal limit, which, would in turn mean you were basically drunk. Go figure. Of course, he got no time in the clink, but the standard probation sentence, and to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving class. Yeah, that oughta be interesting. I can see a party starting up with those ladies as soon as Ty arrives. Oops.
