Bob Dylan discussed his thoughts about The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black” and a Beatles song. He said “Paint It Black” was a very bleak song. In addition, he said he could see The Beatles’ song in his mind’s eye.
Bob Dylan compared The Rolling Stones’ ‘Paint It Black’ to The Beatles’ ‘Paperback Writer’
The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer,” The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black,” and Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night” were all popular around the same time in 1966. During a 2022 interview on Dylan’s website, he was asked if 2022 was similar to the time when those three songs were on the pop charts.
“What’s the gold standard for a song these days?” he said. “What song will walk off with the trophy? ‘Paint it Black’ is black as black can be, black as a crow’s head, a galvanizing song. ‘Paperback Writer’ sounds good, too. The biographer,...
Bob Dylan compared The Rolling Stones’ ‘Paint It Black’ to The Beatles’ ‘Paperback Writer’
The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer,” The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black,” and Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night” were all popular around the same time in 1966. During a 2022 interview on Dylan’s website, he was asked if 2022 was similar to the time when those three songs were on the pop charts.
“What’s the gold standard for a song these days?” he said. “What song will walk off with the trophy? ‘Paint it Black’ is black as black can be, black as a crow’s head, a galvanizing song. ‘Paperback Writer’ sounds good, too. The biographer,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bob Dylan discussed his thoughts about The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black” and a Beatles song. He said “Paint It Black” was a very bleak song. In addition, he said he could see The Beatles’ song in his mind’s eye.
Bob Dylan compared The Rolling Stones’ ‘Paint It Black’ to The Beatles’ ‘Paperback Writer’
The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer,” The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black,” and Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night” were all popular around the same time in 1966. During a 2022 interview on Dylan’s website, he was asked if 2022 was similar to the time when those three songs were on the pop charts.
“What’s the gold standard for a song these days?” he said. “What song will walk off with the trophy? ‘Paint it Black’ is black as black can be, black as a crow’s head, a galvanizing song. ‘Paperback Writer’ sounds good, too. The biographer,...
Bob Dylan compared The Rolling Stones’ ‘Paint It Black’ to The Beatles’ ‘Paperback Writer’
The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer,” The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black,” and Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night” were all popular around the same time in 1966. During a 2022 interview on Dylan’s website, he was asked if 2022 was similar to the time when those three songs were on the pop charts.
“What’s the gold standard for a song these days?” he said. “What song will walk off with the trophy? ‘Paint it Black’ is black as black can be, black as a crow’s head, a galvanizing song. ‘Paperback Writer’ sounds good, too. The biographer,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The first thing you notice while watching Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream is David Bowie’s teeth. He smiles a lot. The Thin White Duke, and leader of the Spiders from Mars, is known as a serious artist. Yes, he sang “chubby little loser, national joke” to Ricky Gervais on Extras; mined Bikini Bottom humor for SpongeBob SquarePants; and was certainly happy to make lots of money dancing the blues in his red shoes, but the majority of Bowie’s works, both on screen and audio, are serious studies. Towards the end of the documentary, we hear Bowie say he always thought himself an adventurer, praying for the most exciting life one could have. Morgen shows the artist enjoyed himself immensely, possibly even more than Bowie fans.
Moonage Daydream is Morgen’s third pop-music documentary, following the Rolling Stones film Crossfire Hurricane (2012), and Montage of Heck, his 2015 dive into the...
Moonage Daydream is Morgen’s third pop-music documentary, following the Rolling Stones film Crossfire Hurricane (2012), and Montage of Heck, his 2015 dive into the...
- 9/16/2022
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
1974: The first Daytime Emmys ceremony was held in New York.
1980: All My Children's Benny tried to get Estelle help.
1990: General Hospital's Shep Casey looked familiar to Anna.
2013: The Young and the Restless aired a special Jeanne Cooper tribute episode."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1968: On The Doctors, Liz (Pamela Toll) reassured Penny (Jami Fields) when they talked about feeling different.
1970: On Dark Shadows, Maggie Collins was trying to preserve her marriage to Quentin (David Selby) unaware his first wife, Angelique, had...
1980: All My Children's Benny tried to get Estelle help.
1990: General Hospital's Shep Casey looked familiar to Anna.
2013: The Young and the Restless aired a special Jeanne Cooper tribute episode."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1968: On The Doctors, Liz (Pamela Toll) reassured Penny (Jami Fields) when they talked about feeling different.
1970: On Dark Shadows, Maggie Collins was trying to preserve her marriage to Quentin (David Selby) unaware his first wife, Angelique, had...
- 5/28/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1974: The first Daytime Emmys ceremony was held in New York.
1980: All My Children's Benny tried to get Estelle help.
1990: General Hospital's Shep Casey looked familiar to Anna.
2013: The Young and the Restless aired a special Jeanne
Cooper episode."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."
― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1968: On The Doctors, Liz (Pamela Toll) reassured Penny (Jami Fields) when they talked about feeling different.
1970: On Dark Shadows,...
1980: All My Children's Benny tried to get Estelle help.
1990: General Hospital's Shep Casey looked familiar to Anna.
2013: The Young and the Restless aired a special Jeanne
Cooper episode."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."
― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1968: On The Doctors, Liz (Pamela Toll) reassured Penny (Jami Fields) when they talked about feeling different.
1970: On Dark Shadows,...
- 5/30/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Beloved children’s TV show host, comedian, puppeteer, actor, and voiceover artist Chuck McCann died on April 8 from congenital heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Deadline has confirmed. He was 83.
McCann was born on September 2, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York. It was in his hometown where he made a name for himself as a versatile entertainer in the ’60s. He, along with Soupy Sales, Sandy Becker, and Claude Kirschner were comedic influencers of the time. He worked on various children’s shows including Captain Kangaroo and Rootie Kazootie.
In 1963, he headed The Chuck McCann Show which ran on New York’s Wpix-tv, seven days a week. He went on to host Chuck McCann’s Laurel & Hardy TV Show in 1966 which featured Laurel & Hardy animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera. The show gave McCann the opportunity to do his Oliver Hardy imitation.
His television career also included recurring roles on Santa Barbara,...
McCann was born on September 2, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York. It was in his hometown where he made a name for himself as a versatile entertainer in the ’60s. He, along with Soupy Sales, Sandy Becker, and Claude Kirschner were comedic influencers of the time. He worked on various children’s shows including Captain Kangaroo and Rootie Kazootie.
In 1963, he headed The Chuck McCann Show which ran on New York’s Wpix-tv, seven days a week. He went on to host Chuck McCann’s Laurel & Hardy TV Show in 1966 which featured Laurel & Hardy animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera. The show gave McCann the opportunity to do his Oliver Hardy imitation.
His television career also included recurring roles on Santa Barbara,...
- 4/9/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Three decades ago, execs at pioneering kids network Nickelodeon realized that wanted to do more than just air old comedy repeats (“Dennis the Menace”) and Canadian imports (“You Can’t Do That on Television”). But this was the early days of cable, and there were no budgets.
That’s how the network’s first game show, “Double Dare,” came to be produced at the local PBS station in Philadelphia. “Nickelodeon couldn’t do [shows] in La and they couldn’t do them in New York because the cost was too prohibitive,” recalled host Marc Summers. “They found out that the PBS station in Philly, Whyy, wanted to open up a production wing, so the station said, ‘If you help us, we’ll help you. Would you put ads in the trade magazines and say, ‘Hey, we had this great experience down in Philly,’ so other people will come knocking on our...
That’s how the network’s first game show, “Double Dare,” came to be produced at the local PBS station in Philadelphia. “Nickelodeon couldn’t do [shows] in La and they couldn’t do them in New York because the cost was too prohibitive,” recalled host Marc Summers. “They found out that the PBS station in Philly, Whyy, wanted to open up a production wing, so the station said, ‘If you help us, we’ll help you. Would you put ads in the trade magazines and say, ‘Hey, we had this great experience down in Philly,’ so other people will come knocking on our...
- 11/23/2016
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Jim Jarmusch to present Paterson and Gimme Danger with Iggy Pop at the New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In 2013, Jim Jarmusch presented Only Lovers Left Alive with Tilda Swinton at the 51st New York Film Festival. This year he returns with Special Event screenings of Gimme Danger on Iggy Pop and The Stooges, and Paterson, starring Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani and Cannes Palm Dog winner Nellie with a touch of Mystery Train, Ron Padgett and Moonrise Kingdom.
Soupy Sales's impact, Lucille Ball in Vincente Minnelli's The Long, Long Trailer, what Abdul Fakir of the Four Tops and Mary Weiss of The Shangri-Las have in common, John Wayne in a James Kerr animation driving around in a Cadillac - this is a wild, fast-paced ride, edited by Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz. Nico, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, the famous dog collar, inspiration from "Egyptian iconography" - all...
In 2013, Jim Jarmusch presented Only Lovers Left Alive with Tilda Swinton at the 51st New York Film Festival. This year he returns with Special Event screenings of Gimme Danger on Iggy Pop and The Stooges, and Paterson, starring Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani and Cannes Palm Dog winner Nellie with a touch of Mystery Train, Ron Padgett and Moonrise Kingdom.
Soupy Sales's impact, Lucille Ball in Vincente Minnelli's The Long, Long Trailer, what Abdul Fakir of the Four Tops and Mary Weiss of The Shangri-Las have in common, John Wayne in a James Kerr animation driving around in a Cadillac - this is a wild, fast-paced ride, edited by Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz. Nico, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, the famous dog collar, inspiration from "Egyptian iconography" - all...
- 9/29/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With the recent release of Weiner, Tickled, and Depalma in the last few months, 2016 is turning out to be a great year for quality documentary feature films. There’s one type of “doc” that’s been absent so far, that’s the profile of an acclaimed music maker. A compassionate look at the all too brief life and career of Amy Winehouse, Amy, grabbed an Oscar at the last ceremony, winning over another terrific singer’s profile, What Happened, Miss Simone? (about the jazz great Nina). The wait for another music doc is over, but instead of another sultry singer, we’re being given a look at a rock and roll icon of the 1960’s, a man who continued to create and perform for three more decades: Frank Zappa. While many just recall him for his unique look or appearance (all that hair!), this new film takes us past the...
- 7/28/2016
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Jim Knipfel Oct 31, 2018
Rankin-Bass teamed up with Boris Karloff, Mad Magazine, Forry Ackerman, and Frank Frazetta for a Halloween special. What the hell?
Three years after producing 1964’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer but before going on to make other warm-hearted and sincere animated holiday standards like Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, The Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the Snowman and the questionable Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass took a hard left turn into the dark, delightfully strange, and intensely geeky with Mad Monster Party.
Predating Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s Nightmare Before Christmas by over a quarter-century, the sinister duo’s stop-motion musical comedy celebration of classic Universal horror, which was released as a theatrical feature before becoming a semi-regular October TV standby, never quite cornered the Halloween specials market as planned. Somehow it was never able to lure audiences away from that damned Great Pumpkin.
Rankin-Bass teamed up with Boris Karloff, Mad Magazine, Forry Ackerman, and Frank Frazetta for a Halloween special. What the hell?
Three years after producing 1964’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer but before going on to make other warm-hearted and sincere animated holiday standards like Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, The Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the Snowman and the questionable Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass took a hard left turn into the dark, delightfully strange, and intensely geeky with Mad Monster Party.
Predating Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s Nightmare Before Christmas by over a quarter-century, the sinister duo’s stop-motion musical comedy celebration of classic Universal horror, which was released as a theatrical feature before becoming a semi-regular October TV standby, never quite cornered the Halloween specials market as planned. Somehow it was never able to lure audiences away from that damned Great Pumpkin.
- 10/3/2015
- Den of Geek
Doctor Who isn’t the only show that finds lost episodes. Earlier this month, Wpix, channel 11 in New York City, announced that they they had unearthed the long-lost Magic Garden Christmas Special, which will be broadcast today for the first time in 32 years.
The master tapes for the episode were found in a storage vault that had literally been forgotten about for over twelve years. The building alerted the station to its existence, and upon inspection, found a treasure trove of archived footage in a variety of formats. In addition to the Magic Garden special, they’ve uncovered decades-old news reports, and a pristine master copy of the locally-legendary Yule Log broadcast from the eighties. The station gives a peek into the vault in a piece prepared for their news broadcast. They continue to pore through the huge collection of footage, and sharing results of its findings on the twitter feed @WPIXArchives.
The master tapes for the episode were found in a storage vault that had literally been forgotten about for over twelve years. The building alerted the station to its existence, and upon inspection, found a treasure trove of archived footage in a variety of formats. In addition to the Magic Garden special, they’ve uncovered decades-old news reports, and a pristine master copy of the locally-legendary Yule Log broadcast from the eighties. The station gives a peek into the vault in a piece prepared for their news broadcast. They continue to pore through the huge collection of footage, and sharing results of its findings on the twitter feed @WPIXArchives.
- 12/25/2013
- by Vinnie Bartilucci
- Comicmix.com
Produced and distributed by Mvd Entertainment Group, in association with Ediad Productions,"Here's Edie: The Edie Adams Television Collection", available November 19, 2013, is a new four DVD box set, featuring 12 Hours of the early 1960's TV series "Here's Edie" and "The Edie Adams Show".
Performances include classic Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Andre Previn, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis, Nancy Wilson, Buddy Hackett, Bob Hope, Dick Shawn, Rowan & Martin, Peter Falk, Sir Michael Redgrave, Zsa Zsa Gabor and a whole lot more :
"...more than 50 years after it premiered on the ABC network, the variety shows 'Here's Edie' and 'The Edie Adams Show' are set for release on DVD and digital formats, the first time either series has been seen in any format since its original broadcast more than a half century ago.
"The 'wow' factor of this box set resides in the eclectic guest stars Edie Adams...
Performances include classic Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Andre Previn, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis, Nancy Wilson, Buddy Hackett, Bob Hope, Dick Shawn, Rowan & Martin, Peter Falk, Sir Michael Redgrave, Zsa Zsa Gabor and a whole lot more :
"...more than 50 years after it premiered on the ABC network, the variety shows 'Here's Edie' and 'The Edie Adams Show' are set for release on DVD and digital formats, the first time either series has been seen in any format since its original broadcast more than a half century ago.
"The 'wow' factor of this box set resides in the eclectic guest stars Edie Adams...
- 8/6/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Greener Grass
The two leading recipes for success are
building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.
Edgar A. Shoaff
For the first few decades of broadcast television, the then three major networks held a near-monopoly on the national audience. More often than not, on any given night it was likely nine out of every ten people watching TV were watching one or another of ABC, CBS, NBC.
But even then, in that small sliver of the audience not watching the nets, there was evidence of a viewer appetite for an alternative to the often formula-dominated programming of the big broadcasters. Statistically, they didn’t amount to more than what would, years later, come to be referred to as a “niche” audience, and you’d be making a hell of an assumption saying they were looking elsewhere for their TV entertainment because they wanted something better. But it was...
The two leading recipes for success are
building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.
Edgar A. Shoaff
For the first few decades of broadcast television, the then three major networks held a near-monopoly on the national audience. More often than not, on any given night it was likely nine out of every ten people watching TV were watching one or another of ABC, CBS, NBC.
But even then, in that small sliver of the audience not watching the nets, there was evidence of a viewer appetite for an alternative to the often formula-dominated programming of the big broadcasters. Statistically, they didn’t amount to more than what would, years later, come to be referred to as a “niche” audience, and you’d be making a hell of an assumption saying they were looking elsewhere for their TV entertainment because they wanted something better. But it was...
- 7/30/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
A warning from Jane Lynch about NBC’s upcoming Hollywood Game Night (premiering Thursday, July 11, 10/9c): “There are cocktails, and some people get a little glassy-eyed during the show.”
Related | So You Think You Can Dance Responds to Fan Outrage, Changes Season 10 Results Format
Fret not, though, the pre-competition drinks — served on the poolside patio where a live band is playing — actually enhance the game instead of hindering it. “[Alcohol] increases everyone’s ability to particpate — and to do so joyfully. We haven’t had it turn bad on us yet,” Lynch says with a laugh.
As emcee for the...
Related | So You Think You Can Dance Responds to Fan Outrage, Changes Season 10 Results Format
Fret not, though, the pre-competition drinks — served on the poolside patio where a live band is playing — actually enhance the game instead of hindering it. “[Alcohol] increases everyone’s ability to particpate — and to do so joyfully. We haven’t had it turn bad on us yet,” Lynch says with a laugh.
As emcee for the...
- 7/7/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
"Boy Meets World" fans should be excited that the upcoming TV sequel -- it's only a pilot for now, but given all of this excitement, how could Disney Channel possibly resist? -- "Girl Meets World" will include original stars Ben Savage as Cory and Danielle Fishel as Topanga, even if Rider Strong likely won't take part. However, there are some other well-known veterans of the show that probably won't make the return either. While "Boy" attracted a significant number of old Hollywood types including Phyllis Diller, Soupy Sales, Olivia Hussey, Robert Goulet, Rue McClanahan, and Monkees Davy Jones and Mickey Dolenz, it...
- 12/2/2012
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
Horror fans today are spoiled. With the vast array of films available on DVD and Blu-ray via storefronts like Best Buy and Fye, online outlets like Amazon and Deep Discount, and rental/streaming services such as Netflix, there are few films that are unattainable. Virtually anything one might hear of is available some way, somewhere. But it wasn't always so...
Back at a time before disc (or VHS for that matter), the only way - and I mean the Only way - to see classic and not so classic genre pictures was on broadcast television. As a kid, I remember getting the local TV Guide and a yellow highlighter and systematically going through the listings, marking each and every show time of movies I'd heard about either from friends or ones that were obliquely mentioned in Forry Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland . I would meticulously go over each entry...
Back at a time before disc (or VHS for that matter), the only way - and I mean the Only way - to see classic and not so classic genre pictures was on broadcast television. As a kid, I remember getting the local TV Guide and a yellow highlighter and systematically going through the listings, marking each and every show time of movies I'd heard about either from friends or ones that were obliquely mentioned in Forry Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland . I would meticulously go over each entry...
- 3/8/2012
- by Carnell
- DreadCentral.com
Actress and author Carrie Fisher appeared on The Today Show on Wednesday to show off her 50 pound weight loss. A national spokesperson for Jenny Craig, Carrie Fisher attributes her weight loss to the program.
On The Today Show, Carrie Fisher told host Ann Curry about the humiliation of trying to buy clothes while she was overweight. “I couldn’t leave [the house] to go shopping, because they didn’t have sizes,” Fisher told Curry. “I exhausted the alphabet on bra sizes, moved into Sanskrit. I didn’t know they had the bra size I ended up with.”
At her heaviest, Fisher was reportedly topping out at somewhere around 180 pounds. She said it was hard to stay on track with a strict diet plan but Jenny Craig and her consultant really helped. “The Jenny Craig food is good!” she said. “I’m not the type to say it if wasn’t. I like the cereal.
On The Today Show, Carrie Fisher told host Ann Curry about the humiliation of trying to buy clothes while she was overweight. “I couldn’t leave [the house] to go shopping, because they didn’t have sizes,” Fisher told Curry. “I exhausted the alphabet on bra sizes, moved into Sanskrit. I didn’t know they had the bra size I ended up with.”
At her heaviest, Fisher was reportedly topping out at somewhere around 180 pounds. She said it was hard to stay on track with a strict diet plan but Jenny Craig and her consultant really helped. “The Jenny Craig food is good!” she said. “I’m not the type to say it if wasn’t. I like the cereal.
- 8/24/2011
- by Laura Vess
- SnarkFood.com
Moments before attempting to shove a foam pie in the face of embattled News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch, a British comic and activist known online as Jonnie Marbles tweeted, “It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat.”
Quoting A Tale of Two Cities’ martyr Sydney Carton to justify a pie in the face demonstrates gross delusions of grandeur, but there is some historical precedence for the provocative act. A pie in the face may have its origins in the slapstick films of Mack Sennett, Laurel & Hardy, and the Three Stooges, and...
Quoting A Tale of Two Cities’ martyr Sydney Carton to justify a pie in the face demonstrates gross delusions of grandeur, but there is some historical precedence for the provocative act. A pie in the face may have its origins in the slapstick films of Mack Sennett, Laurel & Hardy, and the Three Stooges, and...
- 7/19/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
'Fantastic Four' Casting, 'Firebreather' News, And 'Doctor Who' Complaints In Today's Twitter Report
Whether or not "True Blood" actor Stephen Moyer is in the running for Doctor Doom in a Fantastic Four movie reboot, Gail Simone has strong feelings about how Sue Storm should be cast, and she tweeted her hopes regarding the part (and Jessica Alba) yesterday.
Meanwhile, a "Firebreather" peek sneaked out at San Diego this summer, but further news may be on the way, judging from a Phil Hester post Monday. Make your own assessments after the jump, where you'll find out who in the comic book industry is unimpressed by "Doctor Who," what writing a TV pitch feels like for Warren Ellis, and what it looks like when artist Ming Doyle sketches Emma Frost.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is your Twitter Report for August 31, 2010.
@philhester Just got exciting Firebreather news. I haven't even shared it with @andykuhn yet. He'll have to wait until tomorrow! #NoWeAreNotRichAndy
-Phil Hester, Writer/Artist ("Green Arrow,...
Meanwhile, a "Firebreather" peek sneaked out at San Diego this summer, but further news may be on the way, judging from a Phil Hester post Monday. Make your own assessments after the jump, where you'll find out who in the comic book industry is unimpressed by "Doctor Who," what writing a TV pitch feels like for Warren Ellis, and what it looks like when artist Ming Doyle sketches Emma Frost.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is your Twitter Report for August 31, 2010.
@philhester Just got exciting Firebreather news. I haven't even shared it with @andykuhn yet. He'll have to wait until tomorrow! #NoWeAreNotRichAndy
-Phil Hester, Writer/Artist ("Green Arrow,...
- 8/31/2010
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Splash Page
The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards delivered a night of genuine surprises and evenly distributed accolades, with "Mad Men" coming out on top for the third consecutive year as Outstanding Drama Series -- and "Modern Family" out-dysfunctioning "Glee" for Outstanding Comedy Series. Read on for the recap! Get the complete list of Emmy winners Here! The big upset of the night truly was achieved by "Modern Family," as the momentum and popularity of "Glee" was expected by many to out-sing the competition, which included powerhouse "30 Rock," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Nurse Jackie" and "The Office." On the drama side, many may have hoped that "Lost" would win, given that that this year marked its swan song, but "Mad Men" still beat out the Oceanic castaways as well as "Dexter," "The Good Wife," "True Blood" and "Breaking Bad." "Breaking Bad" still had a good night, with Bryan Cranston celebrating his third consecutive Emmy...
- 8/30/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
The 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards falls on the perfect day in Hollywood with sunny skies and moderate summer temperatures for optimal red carpet sauntering.
Jimmy Fallon -- sans Roots, alas -- will bring his wacky and musical brand of comedy and perhaps get help from guest presenters as host for TV's biggest night.
The awards could last three-plus hours, so if you need to switch over to "Mad Men" or "True Blood," we'll still be here to recap every buzzworthy or mundane highlight for you. (All times listed are Eastern.)
Let's begin:
8:00 p.m. - This is Hanh Nguyen, on first shift for the Emmys live blog (typos and all). Jimmy Fallon does a "Glee"-centric fund raising skit for the Gleeks so they can atttend the Emmys. How are we feeling about Lea Michele and her bangs. They kiss up to Tina Fey and very clearly diss...
Jimmy Fallon -- sans Roots, alas -- will bring his wacky and musical brand of comedy and perhaps get help from guest presenters as host for TV's biggest night.
The awards could last three-plus hours, so if you need to switch over to "Mad Men" or "True Blood," we'll still be here to recap every buzzworthy or mundane highlight for you. (All times listed are Eastern.)
Let's begin:
8:00 p.m. - This is Hanh Nguyen, on first shift for the Emmys live blog (typos and all). Jimmy Fallon does a "Glee"-centric fund raising skit for the Gleeks so they can atttend the Emmys. How are we feeling about Lea Michele and her bangs. They kiss up to Tina Fey and very clearly diss...
- 8/30/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
By Fred Burdsall
Since his debut in the Bela Lugosi film White Zombie, our friend Zed has always been the idiot bastard son of the horror movie genre. He never receives any credit for being a loyal, quiet servant to the practitioners of voodoo. Willingly performing any task given to him, no job too is menial and no respect is afforded.
George Romero came along and gave the zombie a little more “bite” by making him a flesh-eating ghoul, but zombie films were still few and far between. (The fact that Night of the Living Dead is shown virtually uncut on TV after being banned in more countries than we even knew existed still cracks me up.)
Well, the zombie is finally enjoying the fruits of his labors because he has Never been more popular. It seems like a new zombie film or five is coming out every year, and...
Since his debut in the Bela Lugosi film White Zombie, our friend Zed has always been the idiot bastard son of the horror movie genre. He never receives any credit for being a loyal, quiet servant to the practitioners of voodoo. Willingly performing any task given to him, no job too is menial and no respect is afforded.
George Romero came along and gave the zombie a little more “bite” by making him a flesh-eating ghoul, but zombie films were still few and far between. (The fact that Night of the Living Dead is shown virtually uncut on TV after being banned in more countries than we even knew existed still cracks me up.)
Well, the zombie is finally enjoying the fruits of his labors because he has Never been more popular. It seems like a new zombie film or five is coming out every year, and...
- 4/25/2010
- by Movies Unlimited
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Photo: Screen Actors Guild And we're back again less than a week after the Golden Globes brought us confirmation Avatar is not only a box-office juggernaut, but also a potential awards show king. However, tonight won't be Avatar's night as it is not among the nominees at the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards, which means any number of other films can see their stock rise as the actors weigh in with their opinion when it comes to the best of the year. I will be here all night long starting around 4:30 Pm Pst with up-to-the-minute commentary and winners just like I was for the Golden Globes (read that here) and will do for the Oscars in March. But tonight is about the SAGs so before we get to the commentary there are a few things to preview.
First off, on Wednesday I asked you to predict who would win...
First off, on Wednesday I asked you to predict who would win...
- 1/23/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
It was the opening day of the Disney-mgm studios in Orlando. The stars were there with their children. There was an official luncheon at the Brown Derby, modeled after the legendary Hollywood eatery. I was beside myself. I was in a booth sitting next to Jack Brickhouse, the voice of the Chicago Cubs. A man walked over and introduced himself. "Bob Elliott." Oh. My. God. Bob, of Bob and Ray.
For me he was the biggest star in the room. Who, after all, compared to even one half of Bob and Ray, was Tom Hanks? Whoopi Goldberg? Art Linkletter? "Gosh all whillikers, Mr. Science!" I said, "What's that long brown object???" Bob didn't miss a beat: "That's known as a board, Roger."
Another man was steaming toward us through the throng. A middle-aged man, well-dressed, tanned, with a pleasant smile. "Hi, Jack!" he said. "Say, I hear Ernie Banks is invited.
For me he was the biggest star in the room. Who, after all, compared to even one half of Bob and Ray, was Tom Hanks? Whoopi Goldberg? Art Linkletter? "Gosh all whillikers, Mr. Science!" I said, "What's that long brown object???" Bob didn't miss a beat: "That's known as a board, Roger."
Another man was steaming toward us through the throng. A middle-aged man, well-dressed, tanned, with a pleasant smile. "Hi, Jack!" he said. "Say, I hear Ernie Banks is invited.
- 11/17/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Soupy Sales was a slapstick comedian who elevated pie-throwing to an art form to become a cult icon with his children’s television programs in the 1960s and 1970s.
He was born Milton Supman in Franklinton, North Carolina, on January 8, 1926. With his last name often mispronounced “Soupman”, he was dubbed with the nickname “Soupbone”, which eventually evolved into just “Soupy”. His brothers bore the dubious nicknames “Hambone” and “Chickenbone”. He began working in radio after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
He began a daily children’s television show, Soupy Sales Comics, for Detroit’s Wxyz-tv in 1953. He was Detroit’s top-rated television personality by 1955, when his show became known as The Soupy Sales Show. He shared the screen with such puppet pals as White Fang (”The Biggest and Meanest Dog in the USA”) and Black Tooth (”The Biggest and Sweetest Dog in the USA”), both...
He was born Milton Supman in Franklinton, North Carolina, on January 8, 1926. With his last name often mispronounced “Soupman”, he was dubbed with the nickname “Soupbone”, which eventually evolved into just “Soupy”. His brothers bore the dubious nicknames “Hambone” and “Chickenbone”. He began working in radio after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
He began a daily children’s television show, Soupy Sales Comics, for Detroit’s Wxyz-tv in 1953. He was Detroit’s top-rated television personality by 1955, when his show became known as The Soupy Sales Show. He shared the screen with such puppet pals as White Fang (”The Biggest and Meanest Dog in the USA”) and Black Tooth (”The Biggest and Sweetest Dog in the USA”), both...
- 11/7/2009
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
A man named Milton Supman died last week. He died quietly, at 83. He'd grown up in the only Jewish family in a small North Carolina town, his father a dry goods merchant who had moved there from Hungary. His family gave him the handle which was to be the origin both of a stage name and of a peculiar, indescribably influential bond with millions of American children -- Soupy. When Soupy Sales died last week, a lifelong friend of mine posted video clips of his work on her Facebook page. Her daughter, herself an adult now, added this comment: "I completely understand your childhood now. Thanks." She was joking, of course. But not completely. It's the nature of jokes, after all, to mask and condense insight in the slapstick shorthand of the one-liner. Just as it's the nature of...
- 10/28/2009
- by Bradley Burston
- Huffington Post
The television screen flashed that all-to-familiar headline of a death in the nation: a photo followed by a birth date and an exit date: In this case, a picture of Soupy Sales followed by the dates 1926-2009. "Nooo! Soupy's dead!" Detroiter Rodney McDonald, like many of us, grew up enjoying the antics of Soupy Sales, whom he often referred to by his given name, Milton Supman. I'm sure that even his parents stopped calling Soupy Milton, but Rodney enjoyed doing that. Like calling the Lone Ranger Brace Beemer (one of the Lone Ranger's voices on radio-- one that made him come alive for us), or referring to the singing cowboy, Roy Rogers (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) with the given name, Leonard Slye. Rodney has a thing for trivia. Milton came into his life around the time that Rodney's family moved from Paradise...
- 10/28/2009
- by Lester Sloan
- Huffington Post
**This Article is Satirical**
A tabloid paper in Australia recently said that Twilight star Robert Pattinson is a raging drunk and needs to be checked into a rehab clinic post haste. Said paper also stated that Kristen Stewart was pregnant with Pattinson’s baby. We know that’s a lie because the baby was actually fathered by the dad of “Balloon Boy.”
Sources close to Pattinson has already denied claims that the young actor has a drinking problem and as far as the Kristen Stewart story goes…I think any reader with a couple brain cells left probably knows the truth about her non-existent baby…and that Soupy Sales isn’t really dead…or that Michael Jackson liked vaginas.
We decided to tackle this whole “Robert Pattinson is a huge drunkard” story head-on and we were ably to nab a story with Pattinson’s whiskey glass. In the shocking interview,...
A tabloid paper in Australia recently said that Twilight star Robert Pattinson is a raging drunk and needs to be checked into a rehab clinic post haste. Said paper also stated that Kristen Stewart was pregnant with Pattinson’s baby. We know that’s a lie because the baby was actually fathered by the dad of “Balloon Boy.”
Sources close to Pattinson has already denied claims that the young actor has a drinking problem and as far as the Kristen Stewart story goes…I think any reader with a couple brain cells left probably knows the truth about her non-existent baby…and that Soupy Sales isn’t really dead…or that Michael Jackson liked vaginas.
We decided to tackle this whole “Robert Pattinson is a huge drunkard” story head-on and we were ably to nab a story with Pattinson’s whiskey glass. In the shocking interview,...
- 10/26/2009
- by Reel Loop Satire Squad
- ReelLoop.com
Soupy Sales, Christian Serratos Proclaims 'Eclipse' Wrap And Twitter On Xbox In Today's Twitter-Wood
The "last day on the battlefield" that David Slade tweeted about must have ended well, since Christian Serratos tweeted triumphantly that "Eclipse" filming wrapped in Vancouver yesterday. Elsewhere, he co-star Jodelle Ferland struggled with her Twitter icon after accidentally covering up her face with a lemon. Such have been the trials and tribulations in the Twitter world of "Twilight."
Miranda Cosgrove, meanwhile, didn't seem to be struggling with the new pair of glasses she TwitPic'd a look at for her followers to evaluate. Nor did Felicia Day seem to have any trouble with her new Twitter functionality on Xbox Live, which she appears to have installed. Check all of those out, along with some Soupy Sales memorial headlines, Paris Hilton's Hello Kitty diamonds and Emmy Rossum's call for Halloween costume ideas. They're all waiting after the jump in the Twitter-Wood report for October 23, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@JohnStamos http://twitpic.
Miranda Cosgrove, meanwhile, didn't seem to be struggling with the new pair of glasses she TwitPic'd a look at for her followers to evaluate. Nor did Felicia Day seem to have any trouble with her new Twitter functionality on Xbox Live, which she appears to have installed. Check all of those out, along with some Soupy Sales memorial headlines, Paris Hilton's Hello Kitty diamonds and Emmy Rossum's call for Halloween costume ideas. They're all waiting after the jump in the Twitter-Wood report for October 23, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@JohnStamos http://twitpic.
- 10/23/2009
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Movies Blog
Soupy Sales not only has one of the funniest scandals in TV history, but here's one that I'm surprised didn't get him and his ilk banned from all of television.
When The Soupy Sales Show was live, his staff set him up for a prank, according to an interview he did with NBC's Bob Costas. As he went into a commercial, he would hear a woman scream, open the door and see a pair of ladies' shoes being dragged out of the frame. But when he actually opened the door, all he saw was a woman wearing Only her shoes (I think, I never bothered to look at her feet).
This clip contains censored nudity. So if you're watching it at work, make sure you share it with everyone around you, especially the ladies.
Filed under: Video, Obituaries, Reality-Free
Permalink | Email this | | Comments...
When The Soupy Sales Show was live, his staff set him up for a prank, according to an interview he did with NBC's Bob Costas. As he went into a commercial, he would hear a woman scream, open the door and see a pair of ladies' shoes being dragged out of the frame. But when he actually opened the door, all he saw was a woman wearing Only her shoes (I think, I never bothered to look at her feet).
This clip contains censored nudity. So if you're watching it at work, make sure you share it with everyone around you, especially the ladies.
Filed under: Video, Obituaries, Reality-Free
Permalink | Email this | | Comments...
- 10/23/2009
- by Danny Gallagher
- Aol TV.
On the massive timeline that is the universe, five days doesn't seem like an awfully long time, but consider how different the world was on Monday morning: Soupy Sales was alive, Lil Wayne was a free man, people were still wondering what Rihanna's new single would sound like and the content of "Michael Jackson's This Is It" was still relatively mysterious. But now that we're five days older and that much wiser, it's time to take a look back at anything you might have missed in the Newsroom.
» Rihanna unveiled her new single "Russian Roulette," which also came with an edgy album cover that immediately put it in rare company.
» Adam Lambert also had a busy week of debuts, as his new single "Time for Miracles" made its way to the Web, along with the epic video for that same song.
» Drake added "college basketball coach" to his ever-growing list of occupations.
» Rihanna unveiled her new single "Russian Roulette," which also came with an edgy album cover that immediately put it in rare company.
» Adam Lambert also had a busy week of debuts, as his new single "Time for Miracles" made its way to the Web, along with the epic video for that same song.
» Drake added "college basketball coach" to his ever-growing list of occupations.
- 10/23/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Detroit – Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.Sales died Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said."If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy," Usher said.At the same time, Sales retained an openness to fans that turned every restaurant meal into an endless autograph-signing session, Usher said."He was just good to people," said Usher, a former jazz music producer who managed Sales in the 1950s and...
- 10/23/2009
- backstage.com
The world lost a comedy legend yesterday with the passing of slapstick comedian Soupy Sales. Sales was the kind of comedian that made you realize that there was no such thing as too silly and that sometimes, you just can't beat a pie in the face. Sales was 83 years old.Soupy Sales, whose real name was Milton Supman, grew up in West Virginia and became famous in 1953 for his half hour show, "Lunch With Soupy." The show quickly became a favorite amongst young people growing up in the 1950s who were hankering for some good clean, ridiculous fun. (Of course, it was only "clean" fun if you don't count all those pies.) Some accounts say that So ...
- 10/23/2009
- by By Actress Archives
I'm not ashamed to say that Soupy Sales was one of the formative influences on my sense of humor as a preteen and adolescent, along with Rocky & Bullwinkle and the early years of Mad magazine. So I was sad to hear of his death yesterday. As a youth living in suburban Minneapolis in the early 1960s, I found myself drawn to anarchic and form-busting humor, but there wasn't much to be had. The early '60s were, in a sense, still the 1950s - watch an episode of Mad Men if you don't believe it. The '60s as a time of mass cultural upheaval didn't really kick in until the end of 1963-early 1964, with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the arrival of the Beatles. But, beginning in 1961, when he moved from Detroit to Los Angeles - at least...
- 10/23/2009
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
He may have been born Milton Supman, but he became Soupy Sales to an entire generation that grew up with his morning kids television show during the 1950s and 60s. He might not have been Captain Kangaroo or Mr. Rogers, but his show was different and it left a mark on those who remember him from those days. Soupy Sales died yesterday in the Bronx at the age of 83.
The best way to describe his show was slapstick goofy and 1960s hip. He had guests like Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine visit his set and he got A Lot of pies thrown in his face. He talked to puppets sometimes, but they were cool and hip puppets. Short of one small incident he avoided controversy and lived his life as a very joyful and happy person according to those that knew him best, as well as those who only watched him on TV.
The best way to describe his show was slapstick goofy and 1960s hip. He had guests like Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine visit his set and he got A Lot of pies thrown in his face. He talked to puppets sometimes, but they were cool and hip puppets. Short of one small incident he avoided controversy and lived his life as a very joyful and happy person according to those that knew him best, as well as those who only watched him on TV.
- 10/23/2009
- by Bryan Jones
- TVovermind.com
When I was a kid, I remember watching Soupy Sales. He had a children's show, The Soupy Sales Show, on channel five in the New York area and he was a wacky, funny guy. He had bizarre creatures around him, puppets named Pookie and White Fang and Black Tooth. Soupy did outrageous things and often ended up with a pie in the face. In a lot of ways, there might have been no PeeWee Herman if there hadn't been a Soupy Sales. In my memory, I always liked Soup and liked his show. On Thursday, Soupy Sales died at the age of 83.
In addition to The Soupy Sales Show, Soupy was a comedian. He played clubs and did shtick, and all through the 1960s and 1970s he was a regular on game shows, including What's My Line, To Tell the Truth, Match Game and Hollywood Squares.
Continue reading Comic Soupy Sales...
In addition to The Soupy Sales Show, Soupy was a comedian. He played clubs and did shtick, and all through the 1960s and 1970s he was a regular on game shows, including What's My Line, To Tell the Truth, Match Game and Hollywood Squares.
Continue reading Comic Soupy Sales...
- 10/23/2009
- by Allison Waldman
- Aol TV.
As a longtime member of the clubhouse-a devotee who still has her vinyl 45 of "Do the Mouse" and "Pachalafaka"-I join my colleague Ken Tucker in saluting the late Soupy Sales, TV innovator. As a movie critic, meanwhile, I toss a cream pie in the air with gratitude that Soupy knew his medium and stuck to it. Today, most any comic who finds fame on television at some point feels driven to extending that (ugh) brand in a movie. And too often, the results aren't pretty. Or funny. (Hola, Chris Kattan!) I'm not a Salesologist enough to know whether Soupy...
- 10/23/2009
- by Lisa Schwarzbaum
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa to speak at the Women's Conference next week - People Man behind Travolta mistrial summoned to court - Us Weekly Comedian Soupy Sales passes away at 83 - PopEater Mel Gibson's pregnant girlfriend rejects his prenup offer - Celebitchy John Mayer defends his choice to sing about pot - Icydk Jodie Sweetin's memoir is heading our way - Fox 411 Bronson Pinchot changes his tune on Tom Cruise - Lifeline Live Pamela Anderson's money troubles - Wonderwall Melissa Joan Hart working on a show with Joey Lawrence - I'm Not Obsessed Naomi Campbell's latest risque cover (Nsfw) - The Blemish...
- 10/23/2009
- by PopSugar
- Popsugar.com
Comic Soupy Sales has died at the age of 83. Sales, who was born Milton Supman, was admitted to Calvary Hospital in The Bronx, NY last week, according to Entertainment Weekly. The star battled on-off health problems for the past several years, his manager Dave Usher said. He began a career in television in Detroit as the presenter of 1953 children's programme Soupy Sales Comics, before starring in both network (more)...
- 10/23/2009
- by By Tim Parks
- Digital Spy
Soupy Sales, the boundary-breaking comedian who good-naturedly endured, by his count, more than 20,000 pies to the face, has died. He was 83.
The comic's anything-for-a-laugh pie-throwing shtick became his trademark, and stars including Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine took one in the face on the comedian's television show in the early 1960s.
His nerdy cool paved the way for such later comedians as Pee Wee Herman ...
Read More >...
The comic's anything-for-a-laugh pie-throwing shtick became his trademark, and stars including Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine took one in the face on the comedian's television show in the early 1960s.
His nerdy cool paved the way for such later comedians as Pee Wee Herman ...
Read More >...
- 10/23/2009
- by Gina DiNunno
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Legendary TV comic and pie-in-the-face receiver Soupy Sales died Thursday in New York after battling "numerous," undisclosed health problems. He was 83. Born Milton Supman to the only Jewish family in Franklinton, North Carolina, Sales eventually landed in Los Angeles and then New York, where his Soupy Sales Show was targeted at kids despite an iconoclastic streak that would later come to influence comics from Pee Wee Herman to the cast of Saturday Night Live. Likely best known for taking thousands of pies in the face alongside the luminaries who appeared on his show, he is making a complete mess of Heaven as we speak -- as it should be. [AP]...
- 10/23/2009
- Movieline
Smallscreen comic actor Soupy Sales has died, He was 83. Born Milton Supman, "Soupy" became a household name in the United States during the fifites and sixties as he delivered signature physical comedy moves such as the classic pie-in-the-face gag to audiences. He was a sunny comic with an arsenal of elastic faces. Mr. Sales died on Thursday at the age of 83 at a hospital in New York, reports CNN. "We have lost a comedy American icon," longtime friend and manager Paul Dver said, when interviewed by CNN. "I feel the personal loss, and I also feel the magic that he had around him being gone. That's a much more severe loss than a loss of a...
- 10/23/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Soupy Sales, the icon of 1950s and 1960s children's American TV programs, has died at age 83. Sales' trademark brand of comedy involved hitting his guests in the face with pies. Many of the most prominent names in show business willingly appeared on his show for the honor of being "creamed". Among them: Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine. Sales remained a popular figure through the decades and was a regular presence at comedy events in the New York area. He also had several hit comedy novelty records. For more click here...
- 10/23/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The comedy icon made pie-in-the-face gag a pop-culture phenomenon.
By Gil Kaufman
Soupy Sales in 2001
Photo: Scott Gries/ Getty Images
It was a simple gag, but one that made Soupy Sales a household name: a pie in the face, or 20,000 pies, to be exact. That slapstick comedic trick, along with a warehouse of goofy faces and wacky characters helped elevate Sales (born Milton Supman) to one of the country's most beloved comedians in the late 1950s. Sales died on Thursday at the age of 83 at a hospital in the Bronx, after several years of declining health.
Soupy Sales Remembered
"We have lost a comedy American icon," longtime friend and manager Paul Dver said, according to CNN. "I feel the personal loss, and I also feel the magic that he had around him being gone. That's a much more severe loss than a loss of a friend."
With his loose-limbed physicality and malleable face,...
By Gil Kaufman
Soupy Sales in 2001
Photo: Scott Gries/ Getty Images
It was a simple gag, but one that made Soupy Sales a household name: a pie in the face, or 20,000 pies, to be exact. That slapstick comedic trick, along with a warehouse of goofy faces and wacky characters helped elevate Sales (born Milton Supman) to one of the country's most beloved comedians in the late 1950s. Sales died on Thursday at the age of 83 at a hospital in the Bronx, after several years of declining health.
Soupy Sales Remembered
"We have lost a comedy American icon," longtime friend and manager Paul Dver said, according to CNN. "I feel the personal loss, and I also feel the magic that he had around him being gone. That's a much more severe loss than a loss of a friend."
With his loose-limbed physicality and malleable face,...
- 10/23/2009
- MTV Music News
Do you feel that? The world just got a lot less funny. Comedy icon and TV personality Soupy Sales (born Milton Supman) left us late yesterday at the age of 83, the Los Angeles Times reports. He'd spent the past week in a Bronx, NY hospital in steady decline after years of battling a variety of health issues. Sales leaves behind a great legacy and a large family, including Trudy Carson Sales, his wife of 29 years, two sons, a brother and four grandchildren. Our thoughts are with them all on this difficult day.
Sales was perhaps best known for his long-running sketch comedy TV series, which ran at varying times between 1959 and 1979. "The Soupy Sales Show" operated under several different names and locations during its on-again/off-again run, but it was always marked by a cast of wacky characters -- of both the human and puppet varieties -- notable guest celebrities (a varied list,...
Sales was perhaps best known for his long-running sketch comedy TV series, which ran at varying times between 1959 and 1979. "The Soupy Sales Show" operated under several different names and locations during its on-again/off-again run, but it was always marked by a cast of wacky characters -- of both the human and puppet varieties -- notable guest celebrities (a varied list,...
- 10/23/2009
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Movies Blog
American comedian Soupy Sales has died at the age of 83.
The funnyman, who famously threw pies at celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine, passed away on Thursday at a hospice in New York.
Sales entered the facility last week (begs12Oct09) and suffered from a number of health problems, according to his manager and longtime friend Dave Usher.
The star appeared in several U.S. gameshows throughout his career and had his own daily children's television programme, Lunch with Soupy Sales.
He is survived by two sons, Hunt Sales and Tony Sales - musicians who have played with David Bowie, Todd Rundgren and Iggy Pop - as well as his wife, former Broadway dancer, Trudy Carson.
The funnyman, who famously threw pies at celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine, passed away on Thursday at a hospice in New York.
Sales entered the facility last week (begs12Oct09) and suffered from a number of health problems, according to his manager and longtime friend Dave Usher.
The star appeared in several U.S. gameshows throughout his career and had his own daily children's television programme, Lunch with Soupy Sales.
He is survived by two sons, Hunt Sales and Tony Sales - musicians who have played with David Bowie, Todd Rundgren and Iggy Pop - as well as his wife, former Broadway dancer, Trudy Carson.
- 10/23/2009
- WENN
He died Thursday night in a NYC hospice. He was 83. Anyone who grew up in New York in the mid-1960s surely had a special relationship with the comedian (born Milton Supman) and The Soupy Sales Show based at Wnew-tv and then syndicated around the country. He was one of my earliest and most beloved TV memories. His zany antics were as addictive as his primitive hand puppets. But it was his dangerousness that made people tune in. That laughter could turn into a pie in the face, or even to rage, at a moment's notice. The mayhem even got him in trouble: when [...]...
- 10/23/2009
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
By Josef Adalian
Showbiz legend Soupy Sales, the pie-in-the-face comic who was one of the early superstars of television, died Thursday. He was 83.
Sales died at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, the AP reported, citing former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher, as its source. The comic had been in the hospice since last week.
“I’ll probably be remembered for the pies, and that’s all right,” the AP quoted Sales as remarking back in 1985.
The New York Times obit of Sales is here. Below, watch a video tribute to Sales which includes more than a few pie...
Showbiz legend Soupy Sales, the pie-in-the-face comic who was one of the early superstars of television, died Thursday. He was 83.
Sales died at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, the AP reported, citing former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher, as its source. The comic had been in the hospice since last week.
“I’ll probably be remembered for the pies, and that’s all right,” the AP quoted Sales as remarking back in 1985.
The New York Times obit of Sales is here. Below, watch a video tribute to Sales which includes more than a few pie...
- 10/23/2009
- by Adalian
- The Wrap
Count your legends while they last. Iconic funnyman Soupy Sales (totally not his real name), perhaps best known for the thousands of pies he took to the face during his 30-plus years on TV and radio, died Thursday at a hospice in the Bronx. He was 83 and had been in bad health for some time, according to longtime friend and former manager Dave Usher. The rubber-faced slapstick specialist, whom Howard Stern has name-checked as one of his comedic heroes, started hosting the kids show Lunch With Soupy Sales in 1959, a combination of puppetry, skits and physical comedy that usually resulted in Sales being hit with a pie in the face. Just as Sesame Street transcends age groups, Sales made his kids show adult...
- 10/23/2009
- E! Online
A joke should have the perfection of a haiku. Not one extra word. No wrong words. It should seem to have been discovered in its absolute form rather than created. The weight of the meaning should be at the end. The earlier words should prepare for the shift of the meaning. The ending must have absolute finality. It should present a world view only revealed at the last moment. Like knife-throwing, joke-telling should never be practiced except by experts.
For many laymen, a joke is a heavenly gift allowing them to monopolize your attention although they lack all ability as an entertainer. You can tell this because they start off grinning and grin the whole way through. They're so pleased with themselves. Their grins are telling you they're funny and their joke is funny. The expert knows not to betray the slightest emotion. The expert is reciting a fact. There...
For many laymen, a joke is a heavenly gift allowing them to monopolize your attention although they lack all ability as an entertainer. You can tell this because they start off grinning and grin the whole way through. They're so pleased with themselves. Their grins are telling you they're funny and their joke is funny. The expert knows not to betray the slightest emotion. The expert is reciting a fact. There...
- 4/18/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.