May 2007 Archives

Well, I got tired of the old video player not working as well as it was suppose to so I've gone ahead and installed WP-ExtremeVideo here on the site. I still need to go back through and edit the CSS file because it sticks out like a sore thumb but it's up and working. The thing I like about it is that I can play videos locally as well instead of having to pull them from YouTube and Google. The code to play the videos on this end is very simple as well so I'm hoping that you'll start seeing more of them here shortly.

Check out the videos today and I'll have some more up shortly.

From here:

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the "Tonight Show" and various game shows, has died. He was 76.

Reilly died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia, his partner, Patrick Hughes, told the New York Times.

Reilly began his career in New York City, taking acting classes at a studio with Steve McQueen, Geraldine Page and Hal Holbrook. In 1962, he appeared on Broadway as Bud Frump in the original Broadway production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." The role won Reilly a Tony Award.

He was nominated for a Tony again for playing Cornelius in "Hello, Dolly!" In 1997 he received another nomination for directing Julie Harris and Charles Durning in a revival of "The Gin Game."

After moving to Hollywood in 1960s he appeared as the nervous Claymore Gregg on TV's "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and as a featured guest on "The Dean Martin Show."

He gained fame by becoming what he described as a "game show fixture" in the 1970s and 80s. He was a regular on programs like "Match Game" and "Hollywood Squares," often wearing giant glasses and colorful suits with ascots.

His larger-than-life persona and affinity for double-entendres also landed him on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson more than 95 times.

Reilly ruefully admitted his wild game show appearances adversely affected his acting career. "You can't do anything else once you do game shows," he told The Advocate, the national gay magazine, in 2001. "You have no career."

His final work was an autobiographical one-man show, "Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly," about his family life growing up in the Bronx. The title grew out of the fact that when he would act out as a child, his mother would often admonish him to "save it for the stage."

The stage show was made into the 2006 feature film called "The Life of Reilly."

Reilly's openly gay television persona was ahead of its time, and sometimes stood in his way. He recalled a network executive telling him "they don't let queers on television."

Hughes, his only immediate survivor, said Reilly had been ill for more than a year.

No memorial plans had been announced.

I remember him from the upper right corner of all those Match Game shows. Here's a clip from when Charles Nelson Reilly get a tired Gene Rayburn mad on the show, and Charles has to take over the hosting duties.

We're at 90 degrees here in Charlotte today.

Here's a winter Kim Possible episode, Day of the Snow People, to cool you off. :)

(You were expecting a real post? I'm wadding through email playing catch up...)

We have Speed Street in town. Even though I have like three bucks in the checking account, I'm wasting time over there.

Be fully back in a few days.

Greets:

Just a quick mention that daria.be will be down for hopefully a short time Wednesday morning, May 22nd, for a very large upgrade (Don't try loading that if you're on dial up) as well as fixes for a pair of outstanding issues concerning static front pages.

A parody of the Mac vs. PC commercials with South Park characters. Created as the final project for a multimedia production class at California State University Northridge (CSUN).

There's an error in the credits: South Park studio is at http://www.sp-studio.de .

I'll be meeting John Boy and Billy from the Big Show and WRFX Wednesday, May 23rd from 11 to 1 at their Listener Appreciation Lunch. It's at Pat Rogers Speedway Harley-Davidson across from Concord Mills in Concord, North Carolina.

Come grab some great food from The Big Show Grill, Texas Land & Cattle Steakhouse at Concord Mills, Moe's Southwest Grill, NC Egg Association and Neese's Sausage.  Also come sample the great taste of Cheerwine and some smoothies from Smoothie King.

Come check out the awesome deals some of our vendors have.  Christenbury Eye Center will be on location as well as CT Communications giving out FREE CTC Pole Night Tickets (while supplies last), Suburban Cylinder Express will be giving away a propane tank and stop by The FOX tent to pick up your FREE passes to "Dale the True Story" movie (while supplies last).

edit: They're saying that it's free food on the radio adverts. Not on the website though. Hmmm....

KP: So you think you know me, don't you Ron?

Ron: Um yeah. We've known each other since pre-k, KP.

KP: That's what you think, Ronald.

Ron: Um...

KP: I've got a drawer full of leather.

Ron: Oh, OK. I think I can live with that. I've saw you in that leather skirt before.

KP: A huge stash of ropes and chains in the attic.

Ron: Um...

KP: A hard drive full of stories that I've read over and over again.

Ron: KP, you're scaring me.

KP: And now I have a boyfriend willing to let me put him through all that.

Ron: **AARRGGHH!!** (He runs away)

KP: *sigh* Oh, he'll be back. I've got the keys to his scooter.

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Kat over at My Single Mom Life is having a contest in exchange for some links. I don't recognize the book she's giving away but the DVD wouldn't be bad. Feel free to join in....

I bet they'll fly off the store shelves.