Even as the year draws to a close, 2024 keeps taking them away from us. Jimmy Carter, America’s best ex-president, died Dec. 29 at 100. Olivia Hussey, famed for director Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo & Juliet” but also a lead in the shot-in-Canada slasher flick “Black Christmas,” gone two days earlier at 73. TCM always does
He’ll always be remembered as “the master of The Hollywood Squares.” There was, however, much more to the seven decade-long showbiz career of Peter Marshall. Born Ralph Pierre LaCock back in West Virginia in 1926, Marshall’s TV credits date all the way back to 1949 and a forgotten ABC series he co-hosted along with comedy
I watched an interesting TV show Wednesday night, all about teachers using television to conduct remote learning classes to students at home. No, it wasn’t a live zoom demo. It was an episode of a 66-year-old TV series. The Peabody award winning series was Mister Peepers, starring Wally Cox. The still charming, classroom-based comedy was