Seinfeld (Re: The Outspoken Marlon Brando)

In article , [email] (Jeff Kirk) wrote:

Well, I loiter around magazine racks and read the USENET a lot. And I surf more than a few newspapers and magazines off the Web. As for the Oscars, I watched those at the apartment of Tjames Madison, noted THE NET columnist and proprietor of alt.usenet.tjames.

And the reason that I sold my TV was because it was an extra $100 for the move from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and I was hardly watching the damn thing except for the Animaniacs and NEWS RADIO. Since I'd no cable in LA, I had to go to Penny's house to watch all that stuff and to see the Internet in color (I got a B&W Powerbook).

TV is, in fact, so stupid that one can easily bluff familiarity, with little or no chance of getting caught if done right. Seinfeld, to use an example, is the same today as he was five years ago -- and it's so easy therefore to still dismiss him.

Wait...I lie. Five years ago, he wasn't shtupping high school girls.

'Jesse Garon' ([email]) wrote:

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(and I had to let him in.)

Penny (although we also watched 400 or so movies. And Garry Shandling and Ben Stiller. And Conan and Andy, not to be confused with Amos n' Andy which, had it been broadcast anywhere anytime, we would have obsessed on)

[email] (Penny Hay) wrote:

And sometimes we would even watch SEINFELD, which was on after one of my favorite shows, THE SINGLE GUY, starring Ernest Borgnine. Well, it is promoted as being a Jonathan Silverman vehicle, but nobody cares a damn about him -- it's just so damn fun to see Borgnine doing TV once again. One of these days, he's going to kick Tom Arnold's ass for the McHALE'S NAVY movie. You just wait.

Here's a bit of gossip for you: what second-string sitcom sidekick is responsible for preventing Borgnine from killing himself by asking if he wanted to go play golf?

(More ObSeinfeld: I think NBC should make a sitcom named SINN FEIN, a lighthearted look at a Northern Ireland freedom fighter and his three wacky Belfast pals. One of them could be really tall, have wild hair, and nobody's sure if he's an IRA terrorist or not.)

[email] ('Jesse Garon') wrote:

Tom Poston?

Yeah! He could handle the explosives. They would all call him Spaz, but not for long. The fat neurotic one could be the driver cause he can spot them squirrels, baby, and boy can he parallel park. And their nutty female sidekick who works for Underground Publishing, sleeps with with someone new every week, but can't get an abortion to save her life.

[email] (Monty D. Martin) wrote:

Compared to this guy, Tom Poston's a superstar.

And we could call the main guy Gerry. "What is it with these bombs in the department stores -- have you ever noticed that? There I am, just trying to pick out a new pair of socks, and suddenly BOOM! there's no more menswear department. Why do people DO stuff like that?"

In article , [email] says...

Ernest Bourgnine is a fun actor to watch, and I'm glad to see him back, too.

As far as Jonathan Silverman is concerned, I saw him on Broadway doing Billoxi Blues, sometime back in the late 70's. He was severely typecast IMHO, and was not impressive by any means. And now to see him with his own series... C'mon. I'd rather see Matthew Broderick take his place (if I watched the show, of course). ;^)

-Gary K.