You’ll need to click on the image above to see the full sized version and to read the program listings. This is an actual scan of a TV Guide issue dated May 8, 1976. TV Guide was an Adelaide-only magazine that competed with the national magazines – TV Week and TV Times. It was smaller, [...]
A boy’s record collection has to start somewhere…..
7″ Singles were only $1.10 and over the years I bought around 1,100 of them. And one of the very first was this one….. And let’s not forget my first true music love and obsession…. So then it’s hard to believe I also bought this one back in the early 70s… (And I’m wondering what [...]
I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!
This movie completely blew me away as a 16 year old in the 70s. Network. Absolutely brilliant. Today, after not having a shower for three days and having back and forth pointless telephone calls, dealing with incompetent real estate agents and electrical repair companies, I was reminded of this phrase from Network… ‘I’M AS MAD [...]
Boys in the Band: Yoda versus JudgeG
Yoda says: I can’t remember exactly when I saw “Boys In The Band” but I do know that it was the first gay film that I saw and that I didn’t like it at all. It left a really nasty taste in my mouth. Had I still been totally in the closet, this film could [...]
Show me a happy homosexual and I’ll show you a gay corpse.
Harold: “You’re a sad and pathetic man. You’re a homosexual and you don’t want to be, but there’s nothing you can do to change it. Not all the prayers to your god, not all the analysis you can buy in all the years you’ve go left to live. You may one day be able to [...]
You need Uncle Sam
Yoda and I had an afternoon of watching classic TV commercials from our childhoods yesterday. It was sad that we actually still knew all the words to these adverts over thirty years later. But we looked at the screen and sang along and laughed our googlies off. Do any of these ads mean anything special [...]
When your life partner dies unexpectedly…
…calling their answering machine can give you a sense that they are still with you. I’d also like to say that I’ve learnt in life that it is a really bad idea to get drunk and then have an argument with your boyfriend or girlfriend. If they have a car, they’ll probably drive off right [...]
They’re not the same song….are they?
Last night at the pub we were having a discussion about Maureen McGovern, the sensational singer of Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno fame. James made a rather sarcastic comment that the themes from these two movies were the same song…The Morning After from Poseidon Adventure and We May Never Love Like This Again from Towering [...]
Allow me to be the best judge of that!
The inspiration behind the title of this website, the legendary Thelma Scott. Thelma’s role in ‘Number 96′ was both hilarious and intimidating. She was always ‘the best judge’ of everyone and every situation. From her Wikipedia entry… ‘…Following this came the role of imperious Point Piper socialite Claire Houghton in the television soap opera Number [...]
