From the archives. For Super Bowl Sunday, I thought it only proper to have contestant John Mundy. (For those keeping score, he comes from Wabasha, Minnesota.) I thought I might have a chance with the composer style, but I was wrong. As for the hidden song, I wasn’t sure, but thought I might possibly have it right – and happily, I did. And no, as a rare clue -- the hidden song is not Mundy, Mundy...
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On this week’s episode of 3rd and Fairfax, the official podcast of the Writers Guild of America, the guest is screenwriter David Skarpa (whose credits include Napoleon and All the Money in the World) who talks about his newest movie Gladiator II, crafting historical epics, the creative challenges of sequels, and more.
From the archives. For Super Bowl Sunday, I thought it only proper to have contestant John Mundy. (For those keeping score, he comes from Wabasha, Minnesota.) I thought I might have a chance with the composer style, but I was wrong. As for the hidden song, I wasn’t sure, but thought I might possibly have it right – and happily, I did. And no, as a rare clue -- the hidden song is not Mundy, Mundy...
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest contestant is Kara Jackson, who was named America’s Youth Poet Laureate and later wrote songs, performing at festivals, including Glastonbury. She also played on a T-ball team in Oak Park, Illinois, that host Peter Sagal coached. She’s low-key, insightful and thoughtfully humorous, particularly when she and Sagal look back at her early work as a teenager.
This is the full Wait, Wait… broadcast, but you can jump directly to the “Not My Job” segment, it starts around the 18:30 mark. On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, co-hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild write that they “joyfully welcome three-peat ‘Naked Lunch’ sensation Paul Reiser as their featured guest for a very special and very funny live episode recorded January 25th at the iconic Palace of Fine Arts Theatre as part of SF Sketchfest -- The San Francisco Comedy Festival."
For the “Mystery Guest” segment on What’s My Line?” the contestant is Ethel Merman. This comes from the later color-version of the show with Larry Blyden as the host. The rules are a little different for the Mystery Guest, so it’s not as fun – the panelists only have a couple minutes to make their guesses, which rushes things. (On the original series, they could take around six minutes or so at times.) And they really do a poor job here, inexplicably not asking the most basic question after learning that she sings – “Would we know you from night clubs? Or the stage? Or movies?” But the fun here is Merman putting on an unexpectedly fun, disguised voice and being bemused as their guesses keep getting “No’s” from her. By the way, worth noting that panelist Alan Alda starred in a Broadway musical with host Blyden, doing The Apple Tree together, a show written by Harnick & Bock, who did Fiddler on the Roof. |
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