Paying Attention: Bud Grant showed up for the coin-toss of today’s NFL playoff game (-6 degrees at kickoff) in short sleeves. He was always the perfect coach for the Vikings.
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What Are You Looking For?
Paying Attention: Google’s top searches of 2015. You are what you search for. Special thanks to the gang at Google for compiling this amazing list.
The Cheaters
Paying Attention: Not much is better on a cold December night than watching classic Christmas Movies, in black and white. This one, “The Cheaters” is from 1945 and is considered a little gem, even though very few have heard of it (Might be the fact that it also has another title, “The Castaways“..that’s always confusing. …
Tracking Santa
Paying Attention: Once a year we hear from NORAD with their now-traditional Santa tracker, which tracks Santa all across the globe. Here’s the link to follow Santa on his world-wide journey. Pretty terrific stuff….let’s hope we don’t hear from NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) any other time of that year. That would fall in …
Top 10 Christmas Specials
Paying Attention: The Big Day is closing in. Just a few more nights of viewing time for Christmas Specials. For those keeping score, here’s a list of the top 10 Christmas Specials of all time, as selected by WatchMojo. Binge them all…you’ve got time!. The Fine Print: Embed via YouTube. Posted originally by WatchMojo. …
Bob Hope Christmas Special 1968
Paying Attention. The Bob Hope Christmas special from 1968, the last in our three-part look back at the quintessential American entertainer (who just happened to be born in England). This show features Glen Campbell, Carol Lawrence, Wally Cox, Nancy Ames and long-time sidekick Jerry Colonna. The Fine Print: Embed via YouTube. (thanks guys). Posted by …
Bob Hope Christmas Special 1967
Paying Attention: This post features another one of Bob Hope’s justifiably famous Christmas specials, this one broadcast in 1967 and filmed on one of Bob’s USO Tours during the contentious Vietnam war. Hope is joined by Racquel Welch, Elaine Dunne, Phil Crosby and Barbara McNair, among others. Hope did over 50 USO tours in his …
Merry Christmas from Texas…..
Paying Attention: Texas is a different kind of place. It’s actually more of a country than a state, and within Texas there is a rich diversity of cultures and art and personalities. It’s a state that accepts a very wide range of personalities…you can be outlandishly eccentric in Texas and no one will think twice …
One Night In London
Paying Attention: (London, 14 May 1998). It is 9:00 o’clock in the morning and I am walking into the headquarters of SKY TV, outside London, with my good friend and long-time working partner, Michael Brock. We are there to create a new type of TV Guide for Rupert Murdoch’s Sky TV, a satellite TV …
The Bob Hope Christmas Special 1965
Paying Attention: One of the finest American entertainers of all time–in both talent and spirit– was Bob “Here for the Troops” Hope. It’s the holiday season and during most holiday seasons, throughout his career, Bob Hope went on the road to entertain American troops in war zones around the world, logging 57 USO Tours. Somehow, …