Monteith with Lea Michelle Dammit. There are just no words. It just makes me want to hug my own kids. Cory Monteith, you never seemed to let any of that crazy Glee fame ride go to your head. “I remember thinking when we found Cory it’s a good thing he’s Canadian because otherwise he’d be
LAS VEGAS–The big game in Vegas these days seems to be television. Not just in terms of production (Pawn Stars, American Restoration and Counting Cars all shoot there), but in terms of gaming.Walking through the casinos, you can’t miss the many TV-themed slot machines. There’s a big bank of Sex and the City machines, usually
LAS VEGAS–In a few short years, Pawn Stars has become a multi-million dollar TV franchise. Sold around the world, translated into several languages, the simple little reality show continues to make history on History. Why has Pawn Stars connected? “There never really was quite a genre like this before us,” says Rick Harrison. “We’re sort
The Gold & Silver pawn shop featured on Pawn Stars LAS VEGAS–This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson tracks me down in Las Vegas, where I’m hangin’ with the dudes from Pawn Stars, American Restorations and Counting Cars. I’ve interviewed the Harrisons from Pawn Stars before, but it was fun and interesting meeting Rick Dale and getting
LAS VEGAS–At the end of Monday night’s performance of Michael Jackson ONE, I tried to take off my 3-D glasses. Then I realized I wasn’t wearing any.The latest Cirque du Soleil stunner, which opened last week at Mandalay Bay on The Strip, is a non-stop Thriller. Jackson’s thick, familiar catalogue of pop standards gets a
The homage to Dawson’s Creek at Screen gems Two weeks ago, I was in North Carolina visiting the set of Under the Dome (Mondays at 10/9c on CBS and Global). Some of my younger colleagues, however, were much more excited to be in the same Atlantic-based Screen Gems studios where two other shows had once
Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels in TV’s original The Lone Ranger “Are ya grindin’?” the Loan Ranger said to me. “Shut ‘er down.”Thus began my interview with Clayton Moore, the actor who played TV’s The Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1957. The series, which ran for years on radio, was the first made-for-TV western.I met
Hey, Daddy-O. The latest TV time capsule from Shout! Factory has arrived: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: The Complete Series. The 20-DVD box set contains all 147 episodes from the 1959-’63 series, plus some bonus goodies. Dobie seems more ‘50s than ‘60s. If it was on my radar at all as a kid it