The Hologlobe Press -- T.H.A.T. #236

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    I am once again bringing up the topic of Ms. Anna May Wong; when I was making the previous edition of Television History and Trivia, I thought I would be done with the subject for a while. About one year and a half ago, I sent a digital copy of Television History and Trivia #217 to Ms. Michelle Krusiec--officially the "rep" entity for her, sending it to Thruline Entertainment; Michelle Krusiec is an actress and it seems a writer, producer, and director of a few video things. I received no response from Michelle Krusiec, such as a thank-you note. Of course, Television History and Trivia #217 attacks people who are pushing crappy history related to--at least--Anna May Wong and her television series called The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong (of 1951). I did get a response, noting that Michelle Krusiec was having trouble reading the file (an electronic file made with Netscape Composer that could be seen by many software programs that can open up easily such a file, such a WordPerfect). I sent another version (answering the response), and I thought the issue was done. On November 1, 2023, I got an email from Thruline Entertainment, specifically Ms. Mae Adornetto, who was then tied to the "Office of Christina Damantas," and remember the entity was and is the "rep" for Michelle Krusiec, who had played Anna May Wong in a video production called Hollywood in 2020. Mae Adornetto wanted me to send T.H.A.T. #217 to her again. I sent it off to her about three hours later, moments after having seen the request email, and I sent an abridged copy of T.H.A.T #217, and I sent an abridged copy of T.H.A.T. #218, both of which had information about Anna May Wong, and the next day (November 2, 2023), I sent a draft copy of T.H.A.T. #235, which had more information about Anna May Wong and which would be published on the Internet about eight days later. On November 8, 2023, I received yet another email from Mae Adornetto, and this time, she wanted PDF versions of what I had sent, and using WordPerfect, I quickly made PDF versions of T.H.A.T. #217, T.H.A.T. #218, and T.H.A.T. #235, and I sent them--all were abridged versions of the full documents--to Mae Adornetto. WordPerfect rated the material in total as 37 pages of material (in single-space form). It was odd that, in essence, it seems, Michelle Krusiec would yet want my material again, some one year and a half later from the point of my first sending material. So I went on a tracking mission. I knew that there was an "X" (formerly known as Twitter) page on the Internet tied to Michelle Krusiec, which I had first seen in 2022, and I went to it again; I discovered an "Instagram" page, but I do not so that stuff. I went to the "X" page again to look at it more closely. Michelle Krusiec's "X" page is not a really active page. I found an entry for May 16, 2020, and it noted--"...I've been thinking about a biopic for Anna May Wong since I was cast in Hollywood [Hollywood]. Thinking I need to write it for her and Sessue Hayakawa...." [Note: The second so-called sentence is defective.].   It looks as if Michelle Krusiec is in some way involved in the making of some type of video production related to Anna May Wong, and that means that Thruline Entertainment (her "rep" firm) is sort of involved. On November 12, 2023, I was well aware Anna May Wong is a feminist, and I knew she comes off an an angry Asian gal, and her "X" page shows some proof. The page also shows she is a supporter of socialists and communists. For example, the entry on her "X" page for November 7, 2020, has a photograph of Joseph Biden and her together, and some of the material with the photograph is--"...Say what you will about Joe. He's a good guy....". With whom you associate and with whom you support shows off your nature. I state that Joseph Biden is highly rotten and corrupt. Michelle Krusiec is too stupid to know the nature of Joseph Biden or is highly rotten. My proof of only some of Joseph Biden's rottenness can be seen through my document called Look at the Destruction Done by U.S. President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, starting on January 20, 2010, which can be reached through this Done By link, and the document is really long (rated at a little more than 125 pages by WordPerfect). Other entries at the "X" page for Michelle Krusiec show that she is highly "Woke," a theme that is tied to supporting and promoting socialism and communism in this country, such as transgenderism. On November 11, 2023, I went to the website for Thruline Entertainment again to see in more detail what the company has been involved with. In relation to productions, I saw that the managers and staffers are happy that the entity has been associated in some way with several shows featuring actress and comedienne Sarah Silverman, who is a hard-line feminist and socialist and a big supporter of the Democratic Party, which a corrupt entity. One production with Sarah Silverman promoted is I Love You America (of 2017 and 2018). Yes, Sarah Silverman, who is no "real" supporter of the country, is tied to a show called I Love You America. Other productions promoted at the website are Please Understand Me (of 2018), Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross and Dave Attell (of 2018), Historical Roasts (2019), Wireless (2020), and The Great (recently), and, basically, the products were for streaming entities, such as Hulu and Netflix and HBO Max. [Note: I have not seen those products that I list.] I do not do the streaming thing, since I am aware, in this day and age, much of the product is not nice and much is propagada put together by socialists and such, who cannot be trusted to make stuff that it not aimed at pushing socialism and like rotten politics. The website also has a listing for Ironside (the 2013 television series and the second series to use the name). Incidentally, the original Ironside series, which was based on a made-for-TV movie, was on the air in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Well, for the fall of 2013, NBC-TV pushed out the remake of Ironside, featuring Blair Underwood as Robert Ironside, and I report that the production was crap, being an "ugly" bit of television (which only stayed on the air for four episodes), and it was like what would show up as Found of today. The newer Ironside was dark and angry and violent, and the producers took a likeable series and decided to push the black theme, by having Ironside be a black guy instead of a white guy. The producers tried to make a success by stealing from the past and corrupting the past, and that idea of going from white to black would be done in the future, such as through The Equalizer (in which a black woman took over the part of a white guy) and The Wonder Years (from whites to blacks). Instead of people making their own series, they decided to ride on the successful tails of the past and push blacks or asians in parts made famous by whites. That is reverse racism. Now, I report that Thruline Entertainment has not been the driving force of a television production for network television or syndication, being a main production company, and I am not clear if Thruline Entertainment is really a true production company that makes video productions, as can Universal Television and dick clark productions. In some way, such as by "repping" an actor or a writer or a producer or whatever, Thruline Entertainment is involved in video production. So where do things stand? Michelle Krusiec and Thruline Entertainment seem to be involved in the making of some type of video production about Anna May Wong. At this time, I make it clear that Michelle Krusiec has three of my documents that blow apart the rotten historical information available about Anna May Wong, such as through the Internet (as I show in T.H.A.T. #217 and T.H.A.T. #218). I expect much of my information might be discarded in favor to continuing the over-blown idea that Hollywood was racist against Anna May Wong years ago, such as by having her mostly play Asian-type gals in movies. Maybe, the production that seemsto be inthe works might give proper perspective on The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong. But I do not trust Michelle Krusiec and her associates to make something that will be, generally speaking, more grounded in reality and the reality of what Anna May Wong was, and the production will probably be used to push political bullshit, and it will probably not come off as something that people will kind of end up feeling good about, such as can happy by watching the movie called Rhapsody in Blue, which was about George Gershwin. The seemingly forthcoming production had better relate history that probably affected Anna May Wong adversely, maybe making her more bitter as a person (it seems), such as the event in which her sister (Mary) committed suicide in July 1940. Basically, young people of today, which includes Michelle Krusiec, know little about movie history (especially that from 1900 to the 1960) and television history (especially from 1941 to 1960), and that is to be expected, since times change and things and people get forgotten, but if Michelle Krusiec corrupts history, even though she has my stuff in her hands, you will understand more of her nature. Oh, I report that Sessue Hayakawa did well as an actor in much of the first two-thirds of the 1900s, and he was a guy (by the way). In the early 1900s, he was a "heartthrob" for gals who went to the movies. I do not see it, but he was no Ema Hayasaka type. Yes, the production about Anna May Wong from Michelle Krusiec--if it comes--will probably not be a "celebration," as were not the recent 75th anniversary celebrations about WXYZ-TV, WWJ-TV/WDIV-TV, and WJBK-TV, as I prove in reviews exising in editions of Television History and Trivia.
    Welcome to Television History and Trivia #236.
    In the edition of Television History and Trivia for February 10, 2023, I talked about The AV Club, which was something shown on broadcast Channel 3.6--Television Drive-In--in the Detroit area, and I mentioned how I happened to stumble upon a showing that had a man named Toby David and how I had no idea what the film (an industrial film) was. The AV Club was made up of old public-service films or industrial films (most of which were black-and-white films from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s). I happened to see Toby David playing a butcher. In essence, Toby David was heavily involved in radio broadcasting from the 1930s to 1963 (though he did stuff later), and much of his radio career was tied to CKLW-AM (Windsor, Ontario, Canada), having two periods of time with the station (the late 1930s and from 1946 to 1963 [Note: Toby David did work for WMAL-AM (Washington, D.C.), WJZ-AM (New York), and WJR-AM (Detroit) in the 1940s.]). I was disappointed that I did not catch the name of the film that Toby David was in as the butcher. Since then, I have done some tracking work, and I have made some discoveries about industrial films and Toby David and about industrial films and other television performers. Toby David played Captain Jolly (on CKLW-TV from 1957 to 1964 and Captain Toby for WXYZ-TV in the 1965-1966 season). When I went looking for the film in which Toby David played a butcher, I came across a small bunch of films that had actors--uncredited--who went on to be familiar to television viewers, and the videos are on YouTube today. And Then There Were Four was a 1950 film narrated by James Stewart (the super-famous actor), and near the end of the production, Richard Anderson was seen, and he played a guy who was ticketed for bad driving. Later, Richard Anderson did a lot of television acting, such as in the last season of Perry Mason (as a regular) and The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman (of the 1970s). The Jam Handy Organization made industrial films in much of the 1900s (the heyday of which was from the 1930s to the 1970s), and Sell the Difference was a 1955 production, and in that film, George C. Scott played Mr. Carter. In the last half of the 1900s at least, George C. Scott did a lot of movie and television work, and one television series in which he appeared as a regular was East Side, West Side. That film of 1955 was a film tied to the Buick Motor Division (or to General Motors Corporation ultimately) The Jam Handy Organization mostly made car-related films. Young America Films had a 1948 film called Your Thift Habits, and in it, an actor who would become famous as "George Furth" played "Jack Furth" (a teenage boy it seems). George Furth did a lot of acting work in television, especially in the last half of he 1900s, and as a regular, he was seen in Tammy (during the 1965-1966 season) and in The Dumplings (during the 1975-1976 season). I also found George Furth in a 1949 film called Law and Social Controls, playing Jack, and in a 1949 film called The Language of Mathematics, playing Jack (the young guy in the sweater). "Coronet"--this name is on a lot of old public-service films that are available on YouTube today. One film from the entity is called Shy Guy, a 1947 film, and in that film, Dick York played Phil. Dick York did a lot of television work in the 1950s and 1960s, and, today, he is most famous for being Darren in Bewitched (the 1960s series that also featured Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha). In 1949, Dick York was in another film from Coronet, and the film begins with, for one, Dick York running on a track--in sort of a sloppy manner--and the film is called Rest and Health, and this time, Dick York is pretending to be George. The Things People Want is listed as a 1948 film (through a YouTube presentation), and this film came from Jam Handy (headed by Jamison Handy), and two uncredited actors in it are John Forsythe (as Don) and James Gregory (as a salesman). John Forsythe ended up as a regular in the Bachelor Father series (of the 1960s) and Dynasty, and he did many other shows and made-for-TV movies. James Gregory did a lot of television shows, playing, for example, cowboys in western series, and he did made-for-TV movies, and James Gregory was regular performer in The Lawless Years (from 1959 to 1961) and in Barney Miller (in the late 1970s and early 1980s). By the way, I once again stumbled upon the film called At This Moment, which was about the train industry, and a big-name performer (to me at least) in it was Bill Kennedy, who played a customer wearing a suit at a diner, and yet another performer in the 1954 production was James Gregory (who did a lot of talking in the film); the film was made soon after Bill Kennedy had left Detroit and WWJ-TV (in Detroit) as an announcer and had gone to Hollywood again, and Bill Kennedy would show up on Detroit-area television sets soon after the film was made as a movie host at CKLW-TV). A U.S. Navy Training Film that was made by the Jam Handy entity for 1948 had Ellen Burstyn in it, and the film was called Easy Out?, and, later in history, Ellen Burstyn did such television shows as The Ellen Burstyn Show (of the 1986-1987 season). In addition, I came across films in which stars or soon-to-be stars were in the credits, such as "How to Go Places" (with Gale Storm), Word to the Wives (with Darren McGavin), and Man to Man (with Robert Rockwell). One film had a super-famous actor in it, and it was Victor McLaglen, and he played Officer O'Mara, and the film was O'Mara's Chain Miracle, and I found it as a whole unit and as two parts. The production was made by the Jam Handy Organization for 1951. Hold it! Here, we go! I knew Toby David was at CKLW-TV or in the Detroit area in the late 1940s and in the 1950s, and I knew the Jam Handy unit was based in the Detroit area, so I specifically worked to track down films made by the Jam Handy unit. In O'Mara's Miracle, Toby David played a butcher, and he was called "Joe" (or fully "Joe Cory" or "Joe Corey" or "Joe Kory" or the like). I then came across a film on YouTube called The Head Man, and it was a "Your Chevorlet Dealer" presentation that was made by the Jam Handy Organization for 1951, and it had a big name performer in it--Edward Everett Horton (as Henry Witherspoon), who got credited in the credits. In this 1951 film, Toby David showed up as a butcher, and once again, Toby David received no acting credit. It seems to me that O'Mara's Chain Miracle is the film that I saw on The AV Club (on Television Drive-In) because it is the only film of the two films with Toby David that has the butcher helping a woman. But the film may not be the one shown in The AV Club. Maybe, there is yet another film with Toby David as a butcher that was made by the Jam Handy Organization. Yet, I do believe O'Mara's Chain Miracle could be the film that I saw on The AV Club. Oh, The gal who played the wife in The Head Man did not get credited, and the gal was Naydia Westman, and over the years, she was a regular on television, such as on Young Mr. Bobbin (during the 1951-1952 season) and Going May Way (during the 1962-1963 season). Hey, what did Edward Everett Horton do in television? He was a narrator for short stories seen in, for one, Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, and those stories were Fractured Fairy Tales, and in 1950, he hosted for a while a show called Holiday Hotel. The actors mentioned in this section--who did not get credits--did a lot of guest spots on television shows and such. So, now, I have sort of put names to faces of some people in old films. I did see hundreds of people in old industrial films and such during my tracking job (related to Toby David) that I did not know, but that is not surprising to me since industrial films often had people who could have been picked up off the streets. A lot of people try to be famous actors and actresses, and most never get close to big-deal fame. So goes the entertainment business--even with industrial films!
    For fun, I did another search of old industrial films and such recently, and on that day, I yet found more actors in uncredited parts who would become well known to the American public for being in television shows or movies. For example, a film called The Dirty Work (l954) had a man named William Frawley playing a barber. The presentation on YouTube did not have credit sections on them, so maybe a full version would have William Frawley listed in credits. William Frawley became famous for playing Fred on "I Love Lucy" in the 1950s, and, in fact, he was already well known when the 1954 film was put together. "The Beautiful Life Of A Telephone Operator. Wouldn't This Convince You To Become One?"--this is the YouTube title for a film that was said to have been made in 1958. In the film, Peggy McCay played a telephone operator--she was the featured character. Peggy McCay went on to be a regular on the daytime soap opera called Days of Our Lives. Jack Lemmon was a well-known actor in movies, but he did television series, such as That Wonderful Guy and Heaven for Betsy, and in 1950, he was in a military film called Once Too Often (which, today, for instance, is linked to a video on YouTube called "Funny Safety Training Film for Soldier on Leave...."). A color film called A Sign of the Times was called a l963 film, and it was a film associated with Gulf Oil Corporation. In the 1963 film, McLean Stevenson played a man named Bill Conner, who runs a gasoline station. McLean Stevenson did a lot of television over the years; for instance, he was a regular on M*A*S*H and The McLean Stevenson Show. One film that I found had five performers whose faces I knew, but two of them I cannot put names to, since I do not have my copies of Academy Players Direcctory near by, and one of the unnamed persons played a customer at a gasoline station who has a mustache and the other not-named person played the character who is talking with Herb on the telephone. The film was tied to Gulf Oil Corporation, and it was made in 1974, and it is in color, and it is called on YouTube--"Thanks A Lot (l974) - Presented by Gulf Oil Corporation". Robert Englund was a repairman talking about a television set to a customer in the film. Freddy Krueger is the name of the character that Robert Englund played in a series of Nightmare on Elm Street movies. The biggest blast that I got from seeing the film is related to Howard Hesseman and Gordon Jump, the former of whom played a gas-station man in the film and the later of whom played an operator of an auto repair shop who has a bill for a customer, who complains. Howard Hesseman and Gordon Jump played characters in the same television series years ago, which began to be seen on CBS-TV in September 1978, and it was called WKRP in Cincinnati. And get this--In 1952, Dick York appeared in a film called How Friendly Are You?. If I were to do more searching, I probably could come across other uncredited actors who appeared in what can be called instructional films or training films or educational films or promotional films who later became well known to the American viewing pubic.
Announcement for the novice again (reworked in March 2019): To get useful television-delivered news or Internet-delivered news, try Breitbart News Network (the history of which goes back to 2007), WorldNetDaily.com, Newsmax TV (which was started up in 2014), CNS News (which is on the Internet and which was launched on June 16, 1998), and One America News Network (a.k.a. OAN), since the entities do not blindly support Barack Obama-type people (communists, socialists, progressives, liberals, and Shariaists), as do CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV (Note: To learn about bad journalism, you might tune in to CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV from time to time to see how they differ from the better places mentioned). I note that the Fox News Channel is evolving into a rotten channel, becoming like those that I have put down in this paragraph. If you are unclear of my intentions, I say in different words that you should boycott CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV and even now much of what is on the Fox News Channel and hope they lose more ratings and advertising revenues, since they are expendable, and it is time for you to find the guts to be mean and heartless and cancel them--since they are hurting you. In 2019, "The Drudge Report" was sold, and it should be treated as suspect for now.   [Note: Everyone in the Democratic Party in the country is rotten, and the Republican Party establishment has shown itself to be socialistic and communistic within the last few years, and only a few of the rotten people tied to the Republican Party are U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.]
    [Note: Here is an example of Chris Christie's rottenness. On Sunday, February 6, 2022, Chris Christie was a guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (of ABC-TV), which had Martha Raddatz as the host, and Christ Christie pushed out crap. For example, Chris Christie said--"...And let's face it. Let's call it what it is. January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump...an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week--overturn the election. And he's trying to do a cleanup on aisle one here...." and "...He actually told the truth by accident. He wanted the election to be overturned....". That is bullshit!]
    And now I get around to this. On October 24, 2023, during the day, I finished--for now--tracking down what theatrical movies were being used by television stations in the country in 1947, 1948, and 1949. I had to search newspapers published in those years from all over the country. In the late 1940s, newspapers with listings for television shows and such did not report often what movies were being shown when such titles as "Feature Film" were being used in the listings, and that is true for the Detroit-based newspapers. I do know the names of a bunch of movies that aired on television stations in the Detroit area in the late 1940s, but, today, I have a lot of blank spots, especially in relation to Western movies. I still have a lot of blank spots related to Detroit television, but, for instance, I am aware of what B-Western movies were being used in the late 1940s in the country by television stations. In the period, such media-focused magazines about television as Broadcasting did not yet get into publishing articles about movie "packages" available for purchase by television stations, and that is too bad (at least for me). Yet, today, I now have a list of many--and probably most--of the films that were available in the country to television stations in the 1940s, and many of the movies aired all over the country, such as in Detroit. On October 24, 2023, during the day, I was unaware WJBK-TV, Channel 2.1, was going to air a 75th anniversary special; I was wondering then when and if the station was going to have such a special. At about 7:45 p.m., I happened to stumble on to the television feed for WJBK-TV, and the station was well into airing a 75th anniversary special. I watched the roughly 15 minutes that were left. A little later, I called the "news desk" for the station to see whether or not the special was going to be repeated or put on the website for the station or put on YouTube, and I was told that the special would be available through the Internet. In the nine o'clock hour on October 24, 2023, I found the special--or most of it--on the website for the station (in the morning of the next day, I would find the same version of the special on YouTube (which runs 43 minutes and 26 seconds)). By the way, keep in mind--I reviewed the 75th anniversary special for WXYZ-TV in the previous edition of Television History and Trivia (a link to which is near the end of this document) and I reviewed the 75th anniversary special for WDIV-TV in Television History and Trivia #224 (which can be reached through this T.H.A.T. #224 link). I watched the special about WJBK-TV at the website for Channel 2.1, and I call the show (for now)--TV2 Celebrates 75 Years. The title is the best title that I have at the moment, since the title is missing from the video that is available on the Internet today, and it looks as if the video was and is a joined-in-progress thing. The special was hosted by Roop Raj and Taryn Asher (who make up the main news team for the station). Not much new material was within the special. Amy Lange hosted a segment, which was mostly made up of an old report about the "Swimmobiles" of WJBK-TV of some 40 to 50 years ago. Derek Kevra did voice-over work for a segment about weather. Brandon Hudson--a somewhat new staffer for the news department--was seen in a segment about Al Allen (a former reporter for the station). Yes, there was little newly made material about the past. Much of the program was nothing more than old promos for the station, such as for the news department in the 1970s or early 1980s and PM Magazine. Little was noted about the history of the station from October 1948 to about 1965. One section about the 1950s was defective. It was implied that Milky the Clown was a big deal at Channel 2 (before it became Channel 2.1.), hinting that that time was in the 1950s and 1960s. Well, that is wrong in relation to WJBK-TV. Incidentally, it was said that the show was Milky's Party Time. Actually, Channel 2 only had the Milky character (as played by the first performer to play Milky on Detroit television, Clare Cummings) on the air from December 1950 to December 1955, and the show was Twin Movie Party and Milky's Movie Party, during which movies were shown. The Milky character--owned by Twin Pines Dairy--jumped over to Channel 7 in December 1955, and he was there till February 1958, and then the character ended up on Channel 4 from March 1958 to July 1967, and the show on Channel 4 was called Milky's Movie Party and Milky's Party Time. The information about Milky presented in the special was bad journalism and even deceptive journalism or television. Early on in the special was too much time devoted to Anqunette Jamison, and at the end of the special, much, much too much time was devoted to a very short-lived television series produced at the station called 2 Hot (a half-hour weekly dance show of a portion of the 1988-1989 season). Another person who was given too much time was a former employee in the news department named Scott Lewis, and that segment had Rob Wolchek (a current employee in the news department) involved. The special did not really look like a special celebrating the station, since too much time focused on Anqunette Jamison, Scott Lewis, the Swimmobiles, and 2 Hot. In the old promos and such, viewers did get to see Joe Glover, Beverly Payne, Harry Gallagher, Barry Zevan, Chuck Gaidica, Huel Perkins, Monica Gayle, and a few others (and often the people went unidentified). For a few moments, viewers did see Sir Graves Ghastly, and viewers saw for a few moments some current on-air staffers, such as Deena Centofanti and Maurielle Lue. Maybe the best parts of the show were the last two minutes or so, when the special showed quick clips of--Joe Weaver, Jack McCarthy, John Kelly, Jac LeGoff, Jerry Crandall, Sylvia Wayne, Tom Greene, Woody Willis, Ron Sanders, Vic Caputo, Marilyn Brooks, Murray Feldman, Nancy McCauley, Linda Wright Avery, Ron Trumbla, Nikki Grandberry, Steve Still, Amalia Barreda, Dave Game, Al Allen, Dave LewAllen, Bill Gallagher, Roseanne Cerra, Ti-Hua Chang, Steve Crump, Catherine Leahan, Vince Wade, and Amy Jacobson. Those clips at least gave viewers a little look at past people. I could say that time was wasted by showing highlights of big news stories about the past that were covered by the station, such as a big flood and a big snow storm, and that is stuff that really does not offer much about the history of the station, and, anyway, the special tied to Channel 4 and the special for Channel 7 sort of covered the same stuff. Such a special as TV2 Celebrates 75 Years could have easily had photographs found at the Detroit Public Library (the main branch, such as of the Music and Performing Arts section), the morgue of The Detroit News, and the morgue of the Detroit Free Press. It would have only taken--if a researcher had a bunch of names--a few hours to pull photographs and copy them. It seems very likely the local newspapers would not have fought back about having the photographs shown (for free) on television. Oh, on the evening of October 24, 2023, I checked three Internet-based television listings entities to see if they had the special listed, and none did. It seems many people of the Detroit area had no idea that the special was being aired, and those who stumbled upon it probably showed up, thinking the regular programs would be on. In a way, viewers who missed the special did not miss much, since it was a very shallow presentation, and it seems to me as if the makers simply gathered a bunch of old video clips (mostly ad-like things) from the station library and pushed them together, and it looked like something could have been done (by me) in a few days, given what I know about the history of the station. Yes, the special failed to pass on even a few seconds (in photographs with graphics) stuff about the "Miss Fairweather" gals (Maureen Bailey, Pat Rousseau, Jeanne Dishong, Natalie Rose, Mary Ann Brownley, Ardi Kenealy, Nancy Thomas, Marilyn Turner, and Betty Bahr), Van Patrick (and Lions football broadcasts), Murray Young (film journalist of at least the 1950s, who provided film for the Standard News newscasts with Jac LeGoff), Bob Murphy, Jackie Crampton, Norm Cash, Shirley Eder, Joe Gentile, Ralph Binge, Hal Newhouser, Vic Wertz, Ted Steele, Bob McBride, Casey Kasem, Don McLeod, Everett R. Phelps, Clay Conroy, and Wayne Walker. Now that I have seen TV2 Celebrates 75 Years, I need not see it again, since it was mostly fluff. I would rather see some of the B-Westerns that appeared on television stations in the country--maybe some in Detroit--in the late 1940s, such as those featuring Tom Tyler, John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Kermit Maynard (Ken Maynard's brother), and Hoot Gibson, and although the movies were low-budget, they were not a part of what I call ugly television, such as can been seen in the current series called Found, which, fortunately for the cast and crew of WJBK-TV, is not aired on WJBK-TV as a Fox TV network show or local show.
    [Note: I have to report that television news is gettng worse and worse each day it seems, following on the track of the print industry. For example, each day a television station can have more "time" or "time blocks" devoted to so-called news than fifty years ago, but, today, a single story can be run over and over again in a day and even into the next day, and there seem to fewer stories offered in a half-hour news block than years ago. Hey, did you catch this? On November 28, 2023, the Detroit Free Press had a short obit for Jean Knight ["Jean Knight, Grammy-nominated singer of 'Mr. Big Stuff,' dies at 80." Detroit Free Press, 28 November 2023, p. 10B.], and on November 29, 2023, the Detroit Free Press had a short obit for Jean Knight ["Mr. Big Stuff' singer Knight dies at 80." Detroit Free Press, 29 November 2023, p. 12B.]. They cannot remember what they did--and did little of--the day before.]
    I regularly hunt for the names of old television shows or hunt for information about television shows, such as by looking in television program listings of newspapers, and one day recently, a hunt led me to some interesting pieces of information. I discovered on a research day that Channel 7 aired a program called Solo Drama on Tuesday, February 26, 1952, at 11:45 p.m.. So I went on a tracking mission. I discovered Channel 7 aired 13 shows called Solo Drama from December 4, 1951, to February 26, 1952. I continued on with my tracking. Solo Drama was a show in which Walter Covell played all the parts, and the show was based on radio work that he had done, in which he had done all the voices. The television series was tied to ABC-TV officially, and scripts were made by Walter Covell, Maurice Dolbier, and Virginia Rooks Turner, and the episodes were 15-minutes long. It was reported that the show debut on WJZ-TV (for the ABC-TV network) on July 15, 1951. Armed with that information, I deduced that Channel 7 in Detroit played kinescope versions of the series, since the show started out at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays on Channel 7 and switched to 11:15 p.m. on Tuesdays on December 25, 1951. By the way, I did not find Solo Dama listed in two prime-time network broadcast history books that I have had for a lot of years. The sponsor was Regens Lighters (cigarette lighters). I found information about Walter Covell. For example, in 1939, he was a new member (in New York City) of The Stagecrafters acting group, which was tied to NBC (radio) and was made up of employees of NBC; The Stagecrafters, which would present plays on stage, had been created in 1938. I stumbled across information that noted that Walter Covell played the husband on a television series called The Wife and I for WJAR-TV (Providence, Rhode Island) in around 1953, and the woman who played the "wife" was Shirley May France, who was very famous then. In 1949, Shirley May France lived in Somerset, Massachusetts, and she would live, there, for most of her life, but in about May 1950, Shirley May was in France (but not a resident of France), and then she was 17 years of age and was a resident of St Clair Shores, Michigan, and here stay would be short in Michigan. In 1949, Shirley May France attemped to swim the English Channel twice--on August 18, 1949, and September 3, 1949. The two attempts failed. She tried once again in the summer of 1950, and that atttempt failed. On YouTube, there is a British Pathe newsreel called "18-year-old completes swim across the English Channel (l949)" (which is tied to Reuters, too), and it talks about a young man's success in swimming the English Channel, and in the video, Shirley May France is shown. From September 30, 1949, to March 31, 1950, the DuMont Television Network had a television series called Fishing and Hunting Club (originally) and then Sports for All (starting on January 20, 1950), and the host was Bill Slater, and for the episode of January 20, 1950, the main guests were Guy Kibbee (a nationally famous actor) and Shirley May France, and the episode was seen in Detroit on WJBK-TV, which was an affiliate of the CBS Television Network and the DuMont Television Network at the time. I have to add this filler information (since almost everyone has wrong information about the theme that I am now presening)--The DuMont Television Network died on September 15, 1955, and not on some day in 1956, as is reported almost everywhere on the Internet. And now you know where one hunt took me.
    Announcement: Recently, I have added some new documents to the collection of my documents at the website for The Hologlobe Press. One of the documents is entitled A Document that Dispels Myths and Nonsense of Science-Fiction Books, Movies, and Television Shows (A Logic Puzzle), which can be reached through this Myths link. Another document is And So You Think You're Going to the Moon, Mars, or the Stars..., which can be reached by using this Moon link. And yet another of the documents is entitled And the Stupid Women Shall Lead--and Lead Every Good Individual into Shit, Driven on by Communism, Feminism, and Defective Female Beliefs and Little-Girl Thinking, which can be reached through this Stupid Women link. And here are other documents--A Review of What Television Controlled by Socialists and Communists Worked to Sell as Truth in Relation to the U.S. President Donald J. Trump Impeachment (at Impeachment) and T.H.A.T. Special Edition--The First Helicopter-based Traffic Reporters on Radio for the Detroit area of Michigan (at Helicopter Traffic).
    Commentary: On Friday, November 17, 2023, I saw rottenness on television when I happened to tune into Amanpour and Company (a PBS program that gets pushed on the public on weekdays). I happened to jump in when the program was working to sell to viewers that they should have sympathy for the "Palestinians" of Gaza, who were having a hard time because of the Israel-Hamas War, which, in essence, had been started by the people of Gaza--official Hamas-type people and a lot of citizens of Gaza who support the culture of Gaza (which is Sharia and Islamic law and the like), which is rotten stuff for people. The story on Amanpour and Company, which, for one, showed crying Palestinians, was certainly designed to set up hate for the actions being done by Israel, and, by the way, the actions by Israel were and are to beat down the enemies of Israel. In essence, the people of Gaza supported the start up of the war by having put the to-be war-starters in control of Gaza and staying in Gaza under to-be war-starters, and so the people of Gaza should not be sympathized with. A war designed to kill Israelis and Israel was started, and Israel gets to beat down the shit, and if so-called innocent people of Gaza get damaged, that is the way of war and life. Amanpour and Company was teaching propaganda and hate for Israel, and all involved are enemies of good people. I say that Gaza should be flattened, if that is what has to be done to get rid of all the Hamas fighters and Hamas supporters!
    Years ago, such as in the early 1960s, prime-time broadcast television had weekly cartoon series on the air, such as The Jetsons and The Flintstones, which are still seen on television today, such as through the MeTV network. Today, Fox TV is big on presenting cartoon series on Sundays, and, of course, one of those is The Simpsons. On Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, I happened to catch the last few minutes of Family Guy (which is on the Fox TV network). It presented crap! In essence, Peter wanted sympathy from his wife (Lois), so he tried to set up a situation in which he would rescue her from a shark (a fake shark played by a character called Glenn Quagmire). What happened is things went wrong, and Lois ended up saving Peter, such as by punching out a real shark, who ended up eating two swimmers out in the distance. Then, Lois got really horny, and Lois and Peter had sexual intercourse at the beach, and the story had it so that Glenn Quagmire, Joseph Swanson, and Cleveland Brown watched Lois and Peter fucking on the beach. And that is what you can get on prime-time television today--not "family television" but family-making television. [Note: I bet someone will take the segment and add material to it, and the someone will put the expanded segment (with non-original material added) on the Internet, and it will show Lois riding up and down on Peter's penis, and that makes me think the producers of Family Guy purposely made the original segment so that somone could add material to it and put the expanded piece on the Internet, which already has X-rated segments featuring the characters of Family Guy, the first of whih goes back a bunch of years (so it is not as if the lude stuff based on Family Guy of today is a recent thing).]
    This section adds a bit more to the theme of television reviews. I start with a look at NCIS: Sydney (a CBS-TV series). It is another cookie-cutter series--it is more of the same format (of the now rather old NCIS franchise), such as with "model"-type girls and guys chasing bad guys, and it is phony diversity. Yes, technically NCIS: Sydney is passable. It is the phony tough girls--models--that turn me off. On Thanksgiving Day, the Detroit Lions took on the Green Bay Packers in a football game, and the Lions lost. The half-time show for the Lions-Packers was a big bomb. Jack Harlow (a hip-hop artist) performed--if "performed" can be used. Jack Harlow is a no-talent guy of 25 years of age. His presentation was bad, terrible, and crappy. Fox TV served up garbage by giving viewers Jack Harlow.
    Once again, WDIV-TV offered up America's Thanksgiving Parade (covering the Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit) on Thanksgiving Day, and the broadcast was syndicated to some 185 stations in the country (not all of which carried the full three-hour broadcast), and I saw the presentation through the "UpNorthLive" television station group. A little before 9:28 a.m., the presentation offered up three persons in an interview--Bob Ellis (V.P.and G.M. of WDIV-TV), Keith Allman (president and CEO of Masco Corporation), and Bob Einey (president and CEO of Henry Ford Health)--and the theme was the renewed "Go 4 It!" campaign, which has a new version of the Go 4 It! song. Bob Ellis pushed out the idea that, under his guidance, the newscasts for the station are going to offer up more "positive stories" for viewers. What crap that is! How about presenting stories that help people understand what the world and the country and the state and the city (Detroit) are so that people can understand what crap is going on, and crap is commonplace with communists and socialists and progressives (such as all the supporters of the Democratic Party). So Detroit television news is going to get more designed for childish minds and will create more childish and girly minds. Bob Ellis is useless and is involving in offering up more useless news! When that segment was done, Karen Drew (whom I have talked about in the past) introduced a singing segment with Isis Damil (who had recently won the 2023 "Go 4 It!" singing contest), and during the segment of singing--at about 9:28 a.m.--the television feed died, and the television screen went to black, and it stayed black for about three minutes. Based on only a little of the new version of Go 4 It! (the song) as sung by Isis Damil that I heard, I say that it was no great thing. "Go 4 It!" did not go well on this day!
    It is time for another Looking at the Movies, which, in the past, has mostly been used to show what movies were broadcast by television stations in the Detroit area in the first few years for the stations, and, for example, in relation to WWJ-TV, Channel 4, the period of time has been set from June 1947 to 1953. This time, I am going off the rails by not following the format. Some days past, I decided to put together a Looking at the Movies segment that had something to do with television--a movie featuring television as a driving force. I quickly came up with two movies. One movie was Trapped by Television, the name of which seem to be a perfect fit for a Looking at the Movies segment. The movie was released in 1936, and, for one, it is about a guy (played by Lyle Talbot) who is an inventor, who is creating a new television system, such as a "televisor." Also in the movie are Mary Astor and Nat Pendelton. I did research, and I found the movie never aired on television between 1947 and 1980, and I mean anywhere in the country. The movie was never put in a package of movies that, in essence, a television station in the country could buy. Today, the movie is available on YouTube. I have to report that many movies made for the movie theaters have never aired on television. On June 10, 1953, a movie called The Twonky was released to movie theaters, and it featured Hans Conried as the main performer, and it was a comedy. On June 15, 1953, I was born at a hospital in Detroit. Since The Twonky focuses on television--a television-set-like creature or whatever--and since I was born only a few days after the movie had been released to theaters and since I have become a television historian, I went looking to see if the movie ever aired on a television station, especially one based in the Detroit area, on June 15 of some year. That movie never aired in a June in the Detroit area. I did find that the movie aired on Friday, July 15, 1977 (at 11:40 p.m.) on CKLW-TV, Channel 9, and "July 17" is the closest day to "June 15" that I could find for the Detroit area. I kept looking, and I then found that WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, aired the movie at 1:00 a.m. on Friday, June 15, 1962, and on that day, the movie had only been available in syndication for about two years. Well, you can see, if I urge you to see either Trapped by Television or The Twonky, I would not be following well my normal format for Looking at the Movies. Well, heck with it! For this edition of Television History and Trivia, I present Trapped by Television and The Twonky as things you should see, and both are available for free on YouTube.
    Besides using Television History and Trivia documents to correct inforamtion on the Internet (at least) related to Ms. Anna May Wong, I have used editions of the publication to show up nonsense about the DuMont Television Network. For example, Wikipedia reports that the DuMont Television Network ended on August 6, 1956, and that is crap information, and it is crap information that has been passed along for years. That is not the only entity with crap information about, for one, the end of the DuMont Television Network. Britannica has crap information about the DuMont Television Network, and one piece is about when the network ended, saying it was in 1956. The article tied to Britannica is called "DuMont Television Network". I once again report that the DuMont Television Network died on September 15, 1955, and I can prove that information. On October 31, 2023, I wrote to Mr. Jeff Wallenfeldt of Britannica, who is credited with writing the latest edition of the article about the network for the so-called useful Internet-based encyclopedia, and I corrected several problems with his material, such as about when the network died. Let us see how long it takes for a response to come from Jeff Wallenfeldt. The man should at least write to get me to prove his stuff is wrong. Oh, I looked at the photographs of the main people for the entity at the website for the entity, and they look like "liberals" or arrogant yuppies [an old term it seems], or they look like the same type of people--bookish people who think they are right all the time because they have degrees from some university or whatever. I expect--at this point--that nothing will get changed with the article tied to Jeff Wallenfeldt, and crap will continue to be passed along for years and years through Britannica.
    And I have this unusual final section--for real guys (a rare breed in this day and age). I have talked about Anna May Wong, who was well known for wearing wonderful gowns and dresses, being, in essence, like a woman of elegance and beauty in the 1930s especially. On November 29, 2023, I once again saw the episode of Perry Mason called "The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse," which originally aired on broadcast television on December 28, 1957, and I saw it again as a presentation of MeTV. In the episode, two gals--Susan Cummings (playing Lois Fenton, whom I really like to see) and Jody Tyler (playing the current Cherie Chi Chi)--did fan-dance sequences. It reminded me that fan dancing has almost disappeared from the world or this country. On November 30, 2023, I stumbled upon the video called "Dita Von Teese Dance Performance at Philipp Plein Spring Summer 2018 Fashion Show in NYC" on YouTube, and it reminded me of her again (I had known about her for some time and I had remembered she grew up in Michigan [West Branch]). Dita Von Teese was born Heather Renee Sweet, and she moves like a real gal moves, not moving like a guy or a man. Hey, guys, Dita Von Teese's video is worth seeing, since it was and is a nice bit of showmanship with a feminine touch, but it happens to be one in which Dita Von Teese is not doing much with fans. [Note: I am not suggesting that Dita Von Teese is someone you would like to be with, given she probably is a liberal and rather shallow in mind.]

    Remember: The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan was a television show that was produced across the pond and shown on CBS-TV in the late 1960s, and I urge you to find The Prisoner on DVD, maybe from a library, and watch it, and you should show it--all the episodes--to teenagers, or buy it as a present for teenagers.

Stay well!
Vic

    P.S.: You are urged to see my document entitled One of "The Rules of Man"--A Rule About Health Care that No Politician May Supersede with Law, which can be reached through this Rule1 link. I have deduced that all the Democrats and most Republicans support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and have no intention of killing it, though it should be killed for violating, for one, "The Rules of Man." For example, Republicans Jeb Bush and Chris Christie support the rotten law, and that is one reason that I define them as stupid men and not men who are good enough--in this day and age--to be the U.S. President. I note that the "mandate"--which forces everyone to buy government-approved health-care insurance--violates one of "The Rules of Man," and it is a rule that is attacked in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Anyone who supports the "mandate" is not a good enough person or a smart enough person to be the U.S. president--the mandate is "enslavism," and the "mandate" allows government people--who are often usually bad people, as history shows--decide what health care a person can get, and that is bad.

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