Swans on Tea

Star Trek barbershop quartet. Words I had never seen in the same sentence, until now.
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Troy McClure film or actual horrible movie?

NFL TV Distribution maps
Maps showing what games are scheduled to be televised in that area.
What do the grey areas mean?
Welcome to the world of blackout rules. The short answer is: no game at all. This can be due to one of two rules: a) no games can air at the same time as a local [...]

Map of Springfield and an interactive version (the website mentioned on the map leads to a dead-end)
via Neatorama

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Absurdly Implausible Excess in the NY Times discusses “Nuking the Fridge,” the expression spawned from some inanity in the latest Indiana Jones flick.
Jason Nicholl, a 37-year-old high school teacher who runs one of the sites, said he went to a message board shortly after the new “Indiana Jones” film [...]

The balcony is closed
Roger Ebert reminisces about Gene Siskel, following the announcement that Ebert & Roeper were leaving the show.
The first time they appeared on the Johnny Carson show:
We were scared out of our minds. We’d been briefed on likely questions by one of the show’s writers, but moments before airtime he popped his head [...]

Rockin’ with the Muppets on Sesame Street
Feist, counting to four
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R.E.M. singing “Furry Happy Monsters”
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via Madam Lamb

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Er, Marlin.
As part of its case, ”Cruel Camera” showed scenes from that much-beloved series ”Wild Kingdom.” It was broadcast regularly on NBC from 1968 through ‘71, and then went into syndication, although new episodes were produced through 1978. How did ”Wild Kingdom” rescue a bear, apparently stranded in a swamp? Someone pushed the bear overboard [...]

The science of scriptwriting
McKee examines story-telling like a biologist dissecting a rat. But after taking it apart, he explains how to build a story yourself using rules that wouldn’t look out of place in a computer programming text book.
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Using McKee’s rules they compare the script of the film Casablanca, a classic pre-McKee movie, [...]

Oh, boy, was he strict. Harvey Korman, 1927-2008
I remember watching him on the Carol Burnett Show, trying not to laugh at something Tim Conway had done or said. That was as funny as the rest of the stuff.

BBC was in the lab yesterday, filming . . . something. I mostly stayed out of the way, except to utter, “I’m putting my secret stash in here!” within earshot of one of the crew, and then making sure everyone understood it was my secret stash of titanium bolts. (Titanium bolts will get [...]