Baby On Board

I don't know that this is necessarily the safest idea, but the look on the babies face as it Roomba's across the floor is hilarious.

The Shaft

Diana Muldaur joined the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation as Dr. Katherine Pulaski (oddly replacing Gates McFadden's Dr. Crusher for only this season). Many people don't know that Ms. Muldaur also had previously appeared twice on the original Star Trek series playing two different characters (one with an up-do and one with a down-do).



I had remembered that and was really looking forward to her being on TNG that year. Honestly, she was the only "human-acting" character on the show at the time (the other actors didn't really relax into their characters until the third season when they finally got to wear something other than a tight spandex onesie and were allowed to crack a smile once in a while).



And, just as oddly, Ms. Muldaur was replaced by....Gates McFadden's Dr. Crusher for the following season and beyond.

I was sad to see her go and she really wasn't given much of a proper goodbye. She was just gone and Dr. Crusher was back.

Of course, years later, Ms. Muldaur would make one of TV's all-time most-memorable character "goodbyes" during her run on LA Law as the mean-spirited Rosalind Shays. She was awful to just about everyone and always seemed to somehow avoid any kind of Karmic payback, until this shocking opening to one of their regular episodes....



I will never forget the loud gasp I made when that happened.

Shocking....and HI-larious!

Happ-e New Year!

2012 Year In Review

Well, with only a few hours remaining of 2012, I thought I'd post a few videos that look back over the past year and feature the best in...

Music



News



News Bloopers



Show



I hope you all have a safe and Happy New Year!!!

Fight Club

Here is a pretty cool "How did they do that?" behind-the-scenes video on the making of the big fight scene at the end of Avengers.



Amazing what they can do these days....

So tired....

That's how I feel today.

Wakey, wakey!

In threes...

Some very sad news over the holidays...

You may not know his name, but anyone who watches movies and television knows the squat, tough-faced character actor Charles Durning, who died on Christmas Eve, according to his family. 

The 89-year-old decorated World War II veteran had an award-winning career that spanned 20th Century entertainment, from the burlesque stage and theater to television and film, playing roles as diverse as society itself. Durning was the gruff father smitten by Dustin Hoffman's female impersonation of "Tootsie," the Southern politician dancing on stage with George Clooney's Soggy Bottom Boys in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and the corrupt cop caught up in the "big con" by Paul Newman and Robert Redford in "The Sting." 

 He won Tony and Golden Globe awards and was nominated for Academy Awards two times as a supporting actor. He also received nine Emmy nominations and was honored in 2007 with a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild.

He was always good in everything he did, but I really enjoyed him in Tootsie!

Also, another loss...



Jack Klugman, best known as messy sports writer Oscar Madison in TV's "The Odd Couple," died Monday at his California home, his son Adam said. He was 90. 

 Klugman, who won two Emmys for his role in the early 1970s sitcom, also starred in "Quincy, M.E." as medical examiner Dr. R. Quincy from 1976 to 1983. 

And one more...



Some of the coolest spaceships ever filmed came from Gerry Anderson, who died today after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. Anderson did more for space opera on television than almost any other single creator, launching space show after space show from the 1960s to the 1990s. 

But Anderson is probably best known in the United States for creating Space: 1999, a live-action show about the crew of a Moonbase who must survive after the Moon is thrown out of Earth's orbit. 

Space 1999 is still one of my all-time-favorite Sci-Fi shows.

They will all be missed.

Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!

Heat is on

Melissa McCarthy (she of Bridesmaids and Mike and Molly) has two movies coming out next year and, as always, she continues to be hilarious.

Here is the profanely-entertaining trailer for Heat, with Sandra Bullock...



And here is Identity Theft, with Jason Bateman...



These both look pretty funny, but I do hope that Melissa will also do some other fun comedies, one day, where she gets to play someone who appears to have taken a shower.

Regardless, she's still a very funny lady.

Very.

Scary Snowman Strikes Again

These are always funny, especially the girl who quickly takes a karate stance when he scares her....



Hilarious!

If you want to see more episodes of Scary Snowman, click here.

Tramps

Although I enjoy jumping on a trampoline as much as the next guy, I don't think I'd have the nerve to do any of these tricky shenanigans....



Besides the usual "uh...no way" response most of us would have, I'd be afraid that I'd get so comfortable with it, that I might accidentally drop off of a parking structure after drinking and forget that there wasn't a trampoline down below to send me back up.

Ouch!

Also, someone posted this video on Facebook of Sandra Bullock confronting Chelsea Handler in the shower. It's pretty hilarious (if you want to see a larger version, click here).



They are both very funny gals!

Star Trek Into Darkness Full trailer

Here is the full Star Trek Into Darkness trailer that was released in the theaters this weekend with many showings of The Hobbit (not mine, unfortunately. Devil!).


















I really hope the movie is as good as it looks in this trailer. I loved the last one.

Exciting!