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Beach Boys Good Vibrations Tour
I posted this once on the music page, but the wonder of cable keeps bringing it around: today on Ovation at noon. A must-see if you have any interest in the Boys; worth recording.
hopeless pictures is quite humorous. its an animated short series with a christopher guest cast sending up hollywood agentdom. michael mckean stars. it on tonight at 11and again later on.
Forget Saint Paul; forget Tim Leary: the West’s greatest embodiment of the conversion experience is Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The film/TV versions are all but endless, and due to the strength of the story, a lot of them are pretty good. Critical opinion agrees with what my father told me when I was a kid: the British Alastair Sim version is tops, but the tale is effective whether it’s Mr. Magoo’s musical version (now edited because the graveyard scene was too scary for kids) or Bill Murray’s Scrooged transposition. Tonight I’m watching one I haven’t seen since childhood, the 1938 Hollywood version with Reginald Owen, on TCM at 8 tonight.
WFMU will be featured on New York Noise -- the NYC-area local access cable video show. In addition to an hour's worth of cool videos, there'll be footage shot at the Record Fair, and cameos by a number of WFMU DJs. The WFMU feature will air on NYC cable channel 25 on November 19th at 10 PM, December 2nd at 9 PM, and December 4th at 10 PM. More info on New York Noise can be found here.tape it tivo it watch it
as far as seasonal viewing, i almost always watch the nyc marathon but i prefer the womens race to the mens. then all the others: wheel chairs, the blind guy, the burrough champs, etc.
i also usually put on the macy parade in the background. made the mistake of putting the sound up. when did it turn into a review of bad broadway musicals. some pretty bad stuff here.
documentary about the original king kong on thrice tonight on tcm, first one at eight. plus my name is earl on nbc at 9 is worth watching now while the concept is still mildly fresh.
i havent watched letterman in a few years but there was a running gag about getting oprah back on the show. well, shes finally relented. im sure it will be a letdown but ill rev the tivo up forit.
harold lloyd comedies all night on tcm.