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Screen Capture Theatre: "Scandal Sheet," or Greed All About It
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Mar 25, 2022
From out of the blue of the western sky comes ... Screen Capture Theatre! Today's entry: the 1952 film ...
"Scandal Sheet" takes place in a mythical world
where people read newspapers.
Rush Limbaugh -- I mean Broderick Crawford -- plays Mark Chapman, hard-driving newspaper edit read more
Screen Capture Theatre: "Five Against the House," or When My Baby Smiles at Me I Go to Reno
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Mar 19, 2022
Herewith, another installment of Screen Capture Theatre, because why not? This time around, it is the 1955 film "Five Against ..." well, see for yourself:
This is not a sequel to "Six Against the Sea," "Seven Against the Sea," "Nine Against the River" or "Ten Against the Sea." Look at the word " read more
Podcast: A Very Short History of TV Shows with Very Short Histories
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Mar 16, 2022
What can you say about a TV show that dies after just one episode? We can think of a few things. Here’s a look at some of the most notorious examples, including a show that forced Jackie Gleason to apologize to America, a “Laugh-In” ripoff that was cancelled midway through its only read more
Wayne Perkey and the Resurrection of WHAS Radio
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Mar 7, 2022
We've lost the genuinely kind Wayne Perkey to complications from COVID. A few years back I interviewed him for an upcoming e-book about Louisville radio during the 1960s and '70s, when WHAS was getting pummeled by WAKY and WKLO -- until Perkey came to town, that is. Here's an excerpt:The first thing read more
Podcast: Ed Sullivan, American Gatekeeper
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Mar 2, 2022
In 1948, Ed Sullivan began hosting a weekly variety series on CBS-TV. His background as a newspaper columnist served him well — he had an unerring instinct for what people wanted to see, and he used his unique power to become an influential American gatekeeper for most of the 1950s and ’ read more
Screen Capture Theatre: "Al Capone," or What About Mob?
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Feb 24, 2022
This time on Screen Capture Theatre we look at the totally true, completely factual, overacted 1959 film ...
Come and listen to my story 'bout a guy named Al,
Chicago-bound from Brooklyn town as muscle for a pal,
But Al wanted money and he had a real hot head,so all his rivals ended read more
Screen Capture Theatre: The "Killer Is Loose" Guide to a Happy Marriage
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Feb 19, 2022
Greetings, fellow married people and others. My name is
Detective Sam Wagner. My first name isn't really "Detective," ha ha!
Anywho, I'm here to give you some excellent tips on how
to be hitched -- and happy!
First, get yourself a smoking hot wife.
This is mine, so "slow your roll"! read more
Podcast: The Keefe Brasselle Story, or Godfather Knows Best
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Feb 16, 2022
Keefe Brasselle’s show business career includes a few movies, some TV work, probable arson, extortion, kickbacks, assault with a deadly weapon and lots of threats of bodily harm. His unholy alliance with a CBS executive led to the executive’s downfall, and his repeated boasting about his read more
Forgotten Sitcoms: "The Mothers-in-Law"
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Feb 14, 2022
"The Mothers-in-Law" could also have been titled "Lucy and Ethel's Children Get Married, Move Into the Garage and Have a Baby," but that's a terrible title.It is, however, a kind-of-succinct description of this forgotten sitcom, which ran on NBC from 1967-69.The title roles were played by Eve Arden read more
Screen Capture Theatre: "Them!", or Ant-y Maim
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Feb 12, 2022
This time around on Screen Capture Theatre (patent pending) we examine the 1954 film:
Our story begins in the New Mexico desert, from a vantage
point that makes people look like ants -- GIANT MUTANT ANTS
CREATED BY THE RADIOACTIVITY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB!
Police officer Bobby Bowtie read more
Whaddya Mean, a Hoosier Queen?!
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Feb 9, 2022
On Wednesday, January 28, 1948, the Mutual Network radio show "Queen for a Day" came to Louisville for a live broadcast, setting up shop in what is now Louisville Gardens for a broadcast over station WGRC, which later became WAKY. On each episode, several women with hard-luck stories competed t read more
Is This the Man Behind "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"?
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Feb 7, 2022
"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" returns to Amazon Prime for a fourth season on February 18, so go ahead and throw your elegant, immaculately designed midcentury chapeau into the air with delight.Once you've done that, I'd like you to meet somebody ...... this is Don Sherman, a stand-up comic.As illustra read more
Screen Capture Theatre: "Dillinger," or That Old Gangster of Mine
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Feb 3, 2022
In the most exciting news since the introduction of the Pocket Catheter, it's time for another installment of Screen Capture Theatre! Here for your edification is the 1945 film...This is the hard-hitting, totally true, no really story offamous gangster John Dillinger. We first meet him ont read more
Screen Capture Theatre: "Attack of the 50-foot Woman," or A Big Hand for the Little Lady
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Jan 28, 2022
Welcome back to Screen Capture Theatre! Our newest entry is the 1958 opus ...Great expense was spared in assembling these titles."We interrupt 'Sex Sent Me to the ER' for this special report.A big ball has been spotted in the California desert, justglowing like anything. All mentally unstable heires read more
Grandma Dixie and the Feds
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Jan 24, 2022
I've already written about my Grandma Dixie a time or two. She had the unique ability to play piano by ear, by just hearing a song and then pounding it out. Consequently she kept very busy, playing solo gigs and with musical groups all around Louisville from the 1930s until the early 1980s.The group read more
Screen Capture Theatre: "Torch Song," or the Lone Arranger
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Jan 21, 2022
OK, I think we can all agree it's been a tough couple of weeks months years. But buck up! If there's one thing we understand here at Screen Capture Theatre, it's that nothing puts a positive spin on the world like a ... Joan Crawford musical?In this 1953 film, Joan Crawford plays Jenny Stewart read more
Podcast: A Short History of Ridiculous Sponsor Interference
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Jan 20, 2022
For almost as long as there has been broadcasting, there has been commercial sponsorship. But from the 1930s through the 1960s, sponsors had an unusual amount of power because, through advertising agencies, they owned entire blocks of time on the program schedule and produced their own shows. In thi read more
Screen Capture Theatre: "Hell's Angels on Wheels," or Diff'rent Spokes
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Jan 16, 2022
This time around on Screen Capture Theatre we look at the 1967 film "Hell's Angels on Wheels," or as I like to think of it ...
Who is this fine, upstanding citizen? Kindly Father Harrigan
of the local parish? No, it is only Psycho -- er, Cycle Sid,
a member of the upstanding Hell's Ang read more
Forgotten Sitcoms: "Dave's World"
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Jan 14, 2022
The final episode of "Dave's World" aired on CBS the night of June 27, 1997.And I'll bet you a quarter that the last time you thought about "Dave's World," if you have thought about it at all, was on June 27, 1997."Dave's World" ran on CBS from 1993-97. Four seasons, 98 episodes. It was based on the read more
Screen Capture Theatre: "The Hindenburg," or It's Hard Out Here for a Blimp
The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Jan 12, 2022
We go once more into the breach with Screen Capture Theatre and explore the 1975 film "The Hindenburg." Please fasten your seat belts and grab your sickness bags.
Gutentag and welcome aboard the Hindenburg,
Germany's glorious lighter-than-air craft powered
solely by the bottled ecstas read more