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Herbie J Pilato Remembers ‘The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour’

The singing duo of Sonny and Cher still resonates with Baby Boomers in a way that can seem quite a mystery to later generations. Here’s our fave Classic TV historian, Herbie J Pilato, to explain.

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The Beat Still Goes On
by Herbie J Pilato

When it comes to vintage comedy-variety shows headlined by pop-music stars, before Tony Orlando and Dawn, Donny and Marie and the Captain and Tennille, there was Sonny and Cher.

Breezy, brazen and groundbreaking, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour started it all. read article

LB: The 2 Things You Must Do to be a Successful Writer

by Larry Brody

  1. You have to write…and finish what you write.
  2. You have to define “successful” for yourself.

Not necessarily in that order.

LB: Do We Live in ‘The Matrix?’

by Larry Brody

…Or is our worldview contaminated by omnipresent cognitive dissonance? (Asking for an invisible friend.)

Personally, I think we’re all in the Philip K. Dick-verse but haven’t yet made up my mind if Phil’s writing created it or it created his writing. (Although I think I know which of those two he believed.)

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #161 – “How Many Times Have You Died?”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned. read article

America’s Top 10 Broadcast & Streaming Shows 8/08/21

Here’s our latest visit to the weekly Nielsen Top 10 site, loaded with absolutely free info for whomever wants and/or needs it. Which is you, of course. Have a sneak peek:

tv total viewing
for last week

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