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Yeah, but it would probably be all CGI, and where's the terror in that? I have trouble even recalling much of the sequel now. The 70's were the golden age of really scary tv movies.

The first video I ever made in high school was heavily influenced by TOT.

*sigh* I try to watch The Haunting around Halloween every year. She was great in it. Been eagerly awaiting the Blu Ray.

Yes sad news about Frost. His interviews were all a bit cosy towards the end of his presenting career, which is when I was growing up. But then as I got into Python and the like in my teens, I found about his early-mid career prime as a firebrand satirist and interviewer...

David Frost and Willie Rushton SHRED the then Home Secretary, 1963

^ Suprised the then Government didn't have the BBC bombed for that sketch ;-)

I great man who helped change comedy and political attitudes forever.

"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home" - David Frost

Showman car salesman Cal Worthington dies at 92

Cal Worthington, the Oklahoma native whose old-time carnival flair built one of the most successful car dealerships west of the Mississippi, has died. He was 92.

Worthington died Sunday while watching football at his home on the Big W Ranch near Orland, Calif., said Brady McLeod of the Miles Law Firm in Sacramento, which represented Worthington.

Described as a cross between Dale Carnegie and Slim Pickens, Worthington was best known for his wacky television pitches that had him wrestling with a tiger, flying upside down on an airplane wing or riding a killer whale. His sales antics with his “Dog Spot” drove a career that took him from a three-car lot on a patch of Texas dirt to a multi-make dealership empire that grossed billions of dollars and stretched from Southern California to Alaska.

My mom actually bought a car from Cal in the early 70's. She didn't realize it was him until she saw a commercial sometime later. There isn't a Southern California resident who doesn't know that song from childhood. Those ads were everywhere on the dial when I was growing up, and he was still appearing mostly in late night ads until the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RGD_Gw_JcA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N9ZY0hKB4E

Truly the end of an era, as nobody makes tv ads like that anymore. The insurance costs alone would see to that.

I had a Cal Worrthington outgoing message on my phone answering machine for a while.

Remembering Ray Dolby

As a gesture of respect, cinema-goers this Sunday will observe a two-minute moment of noise reduction.

I still remember the original NES quietly showing up on store shelves in the U.S. only a few months after the videogame industry was pronounced "dead" by the press. The videogame section had actually vanished completely from several store chains I frequented at the time.

It takes a visionary to go against the grain.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/10/us/scott-carpenter-dead/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Hal Needham, former stuntman and director of Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run and Rad. 82.

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/hal-needham-legendary-stuntman-and-director-dead-at-82-1200763031/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hal-needham-stuntman-director-dies-651039

Vo Nguyen Giap died a month ago in age 102.

Marcia Wallace, 70.

http://deadhomersociety.com/2013/10/26/rip-marcia-wallace-and-mrs-krabappel/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Wallace

Goodbye, Mrs Krabappel. We miss you already. :(

Lou Reed

Why god why?!!? Tonight the world is at least 59% less awesome than it was yesterday :-(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTAVBNUynpY

^ Lou singing the beautiful 'Hang on to your emotions' with his (Now) widow Laurie Anderson... so sad.