TV: February 2006 Archives

Dinner for Five: KISS and tell

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Steve Gerber, Stan Lee, Alan Weiss and KISS!
One of my favorite shows about the movie industry is on IFC (Independent Film Channel): Dinner For Five. Hosted by Jon Favreau (Swingers), it's like have dinner with five people in Hollywood. The guest list changes each week and includes people in both television and movies. One week Michael Chiklis was a guest, along with producer Michael De Luca. De Luca, obviously a big fan of the Shield, starting asking Chiklis about Aceveda's sexual assault and if this was planned from the very beginning of that season. Just last Friday, a Marvel Super Special KISS: Printed in real blood!very cool episode was shown with Kevin Smith taking over Favreau's place as dinner-boss, and the guests included Stan Lee, J.J. Abrams, Jason Lee, and Mark Hamill. Abrams told fascinating stories about how he sold his first movie scripts while in college (one of them was Regarding Henry), and how he started "dating" Tom Cruise (after he watched the first two seasons of ALIAS on dvd) and became director of Mission Impossible 3.

Stan Lee's told a story regarding Marvel Super Special #1, featuring KISS. This was a big event at the time. Marvel put Steve Gerber (Howard the Duck) on the book, who wrote a wild tale about KISS fighting Doctor Doom. Marvel obviously hoped this would lure rock fans to their superhero line. On the cover, it actually says: Printed in real KISS blood. Lee said that he took an airplane trip with all the KISS members to the printing plant, which was most likely Sparta, Illinois. They were met at the airport by the police, who escorted them all the way to the factory. Roads were blocked off and traffic was halted so that Gene Simmons and company could shed a few drops into the printing ink. As Lee said, and as Don King would say, Only in America! I wonder what Stan the Man could possibly discuss with the KISS gang on the airplane flight? Nuff said.

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Happy Birthday, Herb Tarlek!

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Herb Tarlek: a fine gentleman who kept a bottle in his deskToday is Herb Tarlek's birthday! Or it's the birthday of the actor who played him on WKRP In Cincinnati, Frank Bonner. According to IMDB, he's 64. I loved WKRP and it's zany crew: Dr. Johnny Fever, Venus Flytrap, and newsman Les Nessman, who drew imaginary walls around his desk. My favorite will always be ass-kissing Herb, who was forever scheming to get into Jennifer's skirt--since it belonged to 70s pinup queen, Loni Anderson. Herb had his faults: he always thought of himself to be smarter than everyone else, and he was quite selfish. Yet when the chips were down, he had a heart of gold. I'll always associate Herb with the Internet boom. When I worked at Pandesic (a startup in Folsom), we called Friday at 5pm the "Herb Tarlek hour". Herb always kept a bottle of whiskey in his desk. We kept up the tradition with a bottle of Captain Morgan's. Morgan's and Coke, a very fine tradition. Raise a glass to Herb and Frank today. Nuff said.

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Justice League Unlimited Flashes Back to TV

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JLU returns: Flash and SubstanceAccording to the Comics Continuum, Justice League Unlimited is back on Cartoon Network this Saturday. The new episode is called "Flash and Substance". Yum, yum, an all-Flash episode with his Rogues Gallery: Mirror Master, Captain Cold, and the Trickster are slated to appear. Plus they worked Linda Park in there. Now, what is really funny is that over on Ain't It Cool, people in the UK are watching the penultimate episode of JLU already! For once, our friends across the pond get to watch something ahead of the United States. This means...that all these JLU episodes are already torrented. Yep. Nuff said.

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