Humble, Not-so-Humble, and Fred This time of year, I become radio-active. Beyond my usual weekly radio chats with Scott Thompson at CHML (and, occasionally, Mike Miller of Lima, Ohio’s WIMA), other hosts at other stations come calling for an expert take on the new TV season.But John Doyle is usually too busy so I end
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know what the heck I was doing in Halifax last week. I explain that I was there on the set of the CBC teacher comedy Mr. D. Scott wanted to know if Gerry Dee’s hair was really that blond. This is why Scott gets the medium sized bucks.We
After a few weeks off, CHML’s Scott Thompson had plenty of questions. First he wanted to know all about my recent trip to Dieppe. I was in France for the memorial celebrations surrounding the 70th anniversary of the WWII invasion (see previous postings). David O’Keefe, the Montreal historian who spent 15 years digging into declassified,
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson asks if Sarah Palin really was at the NBC TCA party Tuesday night. You Betcha, Scott. The former Alaskan governor was there in all her high heeled glory.And a fine looking woman she is too. She’d make a fine real estate agent.NBC did not post any photos of Palin on
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson seemed rattled by the possibility that I had posted a nude picture of Fabio on TVFMF. He’s referring to this shot (below) of some of the photogenic contestants from Big Brother, back for a 14th season on CBS and Global. I’m pretty sure the good folks at CBS are not
CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to talk about the passing of two TV legends: Andy Griffith and Ernest Borgnine. Thompson didn’t realize Borgnine was still working as a voice actor on SpongeBob SquarePants. The 95-year-old was teamed there with his old McHale’s Navy colleague, Tim Conway, fifty years after the black and white Navy sitcom. There’s
This week, CHML Talk Radio host Scott Thompson wanted to hear more about those three young blond women dressed in pink mini-dresses carrying the 6-foot inflatable penis around in Vegas. Scott has that kind of journalisticly inquisitive, investigative mind.As mentioned here previously, I was in Vegas covering an upcoming Travel + Escape channel series, the
Paddling Bryan’s Wallwork and Adams. Not the singer LAS VEGAS–Everything that happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, right? It should be everything that happens before you get to Vegas should be thoroughly fact checked. Case in point: I blabbed about my trip to Vegas to CHML’s Scott Thompson and I got one big key fact