On 2006-03-05, Wayne Boatwright wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com wrote:
On Sun 05 Mar 2006 12:32:44a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Joseph
Littleshoes?

And got to get Roseanne in there.

Please protect me from that vile and horrid creature!

LOL! ...I hope Tom was getting hazardous duty pay.

nb

Christine Dabney wrote in
:

Heya folks in the SF bay area,

KQED is showing the old Julia Child series, The French Chef.

Julia is looking mighty good!

Christine


Christine,

WNJN (New Jersey PBS) is playing the shows today. I'm forced to toggle
between Julia and the PGA tourney at Doral. Dammit!

Andy

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

Apart from Julia (all vintages), Seinfeld, and Niles, I could easily
pass
on all the others and never care if I ever saw them.

I keep hoping the "Will and Grace" show will somehow metamorphise, spin
off, into the "Jack and Karen" show (Just Jack!!!). Klemnzer music and
vaudeville being 2 of my favourite forms of entertainment.

Very "Ab - Fab": if only we could get Roseanne in there some way or
another, kind of like the Shelly Winters role she played on Roseanne.
Roseanne = Shelly Winters? in any future sit - com?
---
JL



--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

On Sun 05 Mar 2006 02:32:18p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Joseph
Littleshoes?

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

Apart from Julia (all vintages), Seinfeld, and Niles, I could easily
pass on all the others and never care if I ever saw them.

I keep hoping the "Will and Grace" show will somehow metamorphise, spin
off, into the "Jack and Karen" show (Just Jack!!!). Klemnzer music and
vaudeville being 2 of my favourite forms of entertainment.

Very "Ab - Fab": if only we could get Roseanne in there some way or
another, kind of like the Shelly Winters role she played on Roseanne.
Roseanne = Shelly Winters? in any future sit - com?

I told you before, keep that vile bitch, Roseanne, the hell away from me. :-)
Shelly Winters, OTOH, would be phenom.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

On Sun 05 Mar 2006 02:32:18p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Joseph

Littleshoes?

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

Apart from Julia (all vintages), Seinfeld, and Niles, I could
easily
pass on all the others and never care if I ever saw them.

I keep hoping the "Will and Grace" show will somehow metamorphise,
spin
off, into the "Jack and Karen" show (Just Jack!!!). Klemnzer music
and
vaudeville being 2 of my favourite forms of entertainment.

Very "Ab - Fab": if only we could get Roseanne in there some way or
another, kind of like the Shelly Winters role she played on
Roseanne.
Roseanne = Shelly Winters? in any future sit - com?

I told you before, keep that vile bitch, Roseanne, the hell away from
me. :-)
Shelly Winters, OTOH, would be phenom.

Yep, ya got to wonder about that.
---
JL

p.s. pity she's dead. I always regretted that she was not abel to do
the bio pic of Ethel Mermen, that ...what's her name, "boogie woogie
bugle boy" Bette Midler has tried thrice from what i hear to get that
project off the ground and failed each time.
-
joe

Christine Dabney wrote:

Heya folks in the SF bay area,

KQED is showing the old Julia Child series, The French Chef.

Julia is looking mighty good!


They are showing them here in Chicago too on WTTW...unfortunately they are
part and parcel of one of those numerous PBS "begathons"...

PBS is basically garbage anymore, the Julia shows were the first time I'd
had the station on in a long whiles...

--
Best
Greg

"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net wrote

They are showing them here in Chicago too on WTTW...unfortunately they are
part and parcel of one of those numerous PBS "begathons"...

PBS is basically garbage anymore, the Julia shows were the first time I'd
had the station on in a long whiles...

I used to donate. They would ask me, what shows would you
like to see. I'd list the ones I liked. You know, the shows they
would drag out for the begathon, and as soon as it was over,
you'd never see them again ... well, until the next time.

I stopped donating because I am not interested in paying for
a lineup of dull local politicians flapping their gums, whatever is
on. I get 2 PBS stations, and when I check, nothing interesting.

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:

"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net wrote

They are showing them here in Chicago too on WTTW...unfortunately they
are
part and parcel of one of those numerous PBS "begathons"...

PBS is basically garbage anymore, the Julia shows were the first time
I'd
had the station on in a long whiles...

I used to donate. They would ask me, what shows would you
like to see. I'd list the ones I liked. You know, the shows they
would drag out for the begathon, and as soon as it was over,
you'd never see them again ... well, until the next time.

I stopped donating because I am not interested in paying for
a lineup of dull local politicians flapping their gums, whatever is
on. I get 2 PBS stations, and when I check, nothing interesting.


We get three, the big Chicago one (WTTW), an Indiana one (reminds me of a
bunch of kids putting on a fake broadcast c. 1973) and we also have WYCC, a
City Colleges of Chicago station (although I don't know if the latter is
technically really a PBS station). The latter one is very good, none of
that foney - baloney BEGGING...my tax money goes to fund and I don't mind it
one bit. Also they don't run bona - fide commercials between programs like
the others do, another thing in their favor.

I can't believe the lame - o stuff PBS runs during their "Pledge Weeks".
Actually these daze they are more akin to "Pledge Fortnights" and they
seemingly run every other month at the minimum...I mean how much dough does
it take to telecast old re - runs of those_Yanni At Red Rock_ and _Sh'boom
Sh'boom Doo - Wop_ programs!?

The movies WWTW runs are nothing exotic, I mean has anyone NOT seen
_Casablanca_ or _An American In Paris_? Plus which they now have a
commercial break in the middle, who needs it...

I do like _The American Experience_ and _American Masters_ shows PBS
produces but that's about it...they long ago pretty much stopped doing
anything really innovative. Can't upset all those oil
companies/banks/agricultural conglomerates that provide a lot of their
funding ya know...

WTTW Chicago has surely dropped the ball, unlike WNET in NYC and WGBH in
Boston who are still doing decent local programming with the money they
get...

--
Best
Greg

On 2006-03-07, Nancy Young wrote:

PBS is basically garbage anymore, the Julia shows were the first time I'd
had the station on in a long whiles...

Yeah, the beginning of the end was when they started doing self help
programs and psuedo science bullshit like enneagrams. The final straw
was those music of the _______(fill in the decade) shows where some
snot nosed kid kicks the walkers out from under some beloved old
entertainers and trots them out onstage to shill for PBS. It's worse
than Time-Warner infomercials.

nb

In article ,
"Nancy Young" wrote:

"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net wrote

They are showing them here in Chicago too on WTTW...unfortunately they are
part and parcel of one of those numerous PBS "begathons"...

PBS is basically garbage anymore, the Julia shows were the first time I'd
had the station on in a long whiles...

I used to donate. They would ask me, what shows would you
like to see. I'd list the ones I liked. You know, the shows they
would drag out for the begathon, and as soon as it was over,
you'd never see them again ... well, until the next time.

I stopped donating because I am not interested in paying for
a lineup of dull local politicians flapping their gums, whatever is
on. I get 2 PBS stations, and when I check, nothing interesting.

nancy

I called the local PBS station here (KCSM in San Mateo) and they said
you can designate what kind of programming (i.e. cooking not "x"cooking
show) on your check and they were obligated to use your donation for
that. I always specify now. You might call your station and see if
they give you the same story.

marcella

"Mark Thorson" wrote

This reminds me of a mini-scandal that surfaced with
the United Way a few years ago. They were happily
accepting donations to specific causes that they
support, but specifying a charity had absolutely
no effect on how much money that charity received.

Are you certain it's United Way? I recall that being the
Red Cross. As far as I'm concerned, the United Way
bad stuff is worse, but that's my opinion and neither here
nor there.

nancy

Marcella Peek wrote:

I called the local PBS station here (KCSM in San Mateo) and they
said you can designate what kind of programming (i.e. cooking
not "x"cooking show) on your check and they were obligated to use
your donation for that. I always specify now. You might call
your station and see if they give you the same story.

This reminds me of a mini-scandal that surfaced with
the United Way a few years ago. They were happily
accepting donations to specific causes that they
support, but specifying a charity had absolutely
no effect on how much money that charity received.

They justified this by saying that your money
indeed went to the specified charity. And the
rest of the money your favorite charity received
came from the general collections, up to the amount
which was their fair share (i.e. what they would
have received anyway).

That was not the impression which was given
to donors. They could easily have gotten the
impression that their donations would be IN ADDITION
to whatever their charity would have received
anyway. That was not true then, though I believe
that policy has since been changed (but only after
exposure in the public media).

While I suppose that your wishes will be taken
into account when your local PBS affiliate
decides what shows to buy, I don't believe for
a moment that your contribution will be allocated
specifically for the shows you want. (Although
they will probably cheerfully tell you that it did,
which may be true at some level, if you ignore
that it displaces funds that will be spent exclusively
on all the other crap in the budget you don't
support.)

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Nancy Young wrote:

PBS is basically garbage anymore, the Julia shows were the first time I'd
had the station on in a long whiles...
snip
I stopped donating because I am not interested in paying for
a lineup of dull local politicians flapping their gums, whatever is
on. I get 2 PBS stations, and when I check, nothing interesting.

Not to mention the commercials. Remember when you used to pay for cable
so you didn't have to watch commercials? Now you can't even get away
from them on PBS. I don't have a TV anymore. I won't even donate
to public radio. Too many commercials, and too little programming that
I find interesting anymore. The ratio of (what I want to hear) to
(what they make me listen to) has shrunk to the point of giving me
no reason to turn it on. It's too bad because I would like to listen
to some good radio sometimes.

Jeneen

"Jeneen Sommers" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Nancy Young wrote:

PBS is basically garbage anymore, the Julia shows were the first time
I'd
had the station on in a long whiles...
snip
I stopped donating because I am not interested in paying for
a lineup of dull local politicians flapping their gums, whatever is
on. I get 2 PBS stations, and when I check, nothing interesting.

Not to mention the commercials. Remember when you used to pay for cable
so you didn't have to watch commercials? Now you can't even get away
from them on PBS. I don't have a TV anymore. I won't even donate
to public radio. Too many commercials, and too little programming that
I find interesting anymore. The ratio of (what I want to hear) to
(what they make me listen to) has shrunk to the point of giving me
no reason to turn it on. It's too bad because I would like to listen
to some good radio sometimes.

Jeneen

PBS programs that are broadcast in HDTV are 'easy on the eyes.' Beautiful!
I'm not speaking to content. But, such scenery!
Dee Dee

Nancy Young wrote:

"Mark Thorson" wrote

This reminds me of a mini-scandal that surfaced with
the United Way a few years ago. They were happily
accepting donations to specific causes that they
support, but specifying a charity had absolutely
no effect on how much money that charity received.

Are you certain it's United Way? I recall that being the
Red Cross. As far as I'm concerned, the United Way
bad stuff is worse, but that's my opinion and neither here
nor there.

I believe you're confusing another mini-scandal
involving the Red Cross. They mounted a large
fund-raising campaign after the October 1989
earthquake in Northern California, and it was
later revealed that they collected $55 million
but only spent $12 million, and kept the rest.
I suppose their justification was that the people
of California are so rich, that it would be more
fair to spread the money around in other places
where people are not so rich.