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George Lindsey, TV's 'Goober Pyle,' Remembered At Funeral Service
13 May 2012 8:09 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Nashville, Tenn. -- Actor George Lindsey was remembered Friday as the grinning Goober who made television viewers laugh for three decades on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw."
A public memorial service drew an estimated 400 people who paid last respects to Lindsey, 83, who died Sunday.
He was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, "Mayberry Rfd," from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character, a mechanic, on "Hee Haw" from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993. Reruns of those shows are still seen on TV.
Griffith did not attend, but sent a statement that was read by country music broadcaster Keith Bilbrey at the service at Westminster Presbyterian Church.
"George was a better joke teller than me, and I will say here that I `borrowed' jokes from George that he may have `borrowed' from Minnie Pearl," Griffith confessed. "George told me his »
- AP
George Lindsey, TV's 'Goober Pyle,' Remembered At Funeral Service
13 May 2012 8:09 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Nashville, Tenn. -- Actor George Lindsey was remembered Friday as the grinning Goober who made television viewers laugh for three decades on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw."
A public memorial service drew an estimated 400 people who paid last respects to Lindsey, 83, who died Sunday.
He was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, "Mayberry Rfd," from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character, a mechanic, on "Hee Haw" from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993. Reruns of those shows are still seen on TV.
Griffith did not attend, but sent a statement that was read by country music broadcaster Keith Bilbrey at the service at Westminster Presbyterian Church.
"George was a better joke teller than me, and I will say here that I `borrowed' jokes from George that he may have `borrowed' from Minnie Pearl," Griffith confessed. "George told me his »
- AP
George Lindsey, The Legendary "Goober" Of Mayberry, Dead At Age 83
6 May 2012 2:21 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
By Lee Pfeiffer
Actor George Lindsey has been found dead at age 83. Although he had a long and varied career that included stand-up comedy, he is best remembered by generations of fans as Goober Pyle, the lovable but simple-minded garage mechanic from the legendary Andy Griffith Show. The series' long run in the 1960s ensured its status as an evergreen comedy and it maintains an active fan base that gathers for annual conventions. The close-knit cast continued their ties over the decades and, in learning of Lindsey's passing, Andy Griffith said he had only spoken to him a few days ago. Lindsey took on a key role in the series playing the cousin of Gomer Pyle, played by Jim Nabors. When Nabors quit the series in order to star in the equally successful Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Lindsay managed to pick up the slack and become accepted as popular cast member, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Doctor Gash's Tip of the Scalpel: A Tribute to Doug Jones
3 May 2012 11:00 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
I was lucky enough to sit down with the great Doug Jones last month to talk about John Dies at the End and a potential reunion with Guillermo Del Toro for a dream Frankenstein project. The great thing was, the interview went so well, I had a ton of extra material that wouldn't fit in the original piece. What to do, what to do?
Then the answer became obvious, take the rest of the interview and turn it into the first ever Doctor Gash Tip of the Scalpel, Interview Edition. So it's with that I offer a much deserved Tip of the Doctor Gash Scalpel to one of the most unique talents in Hollywood, the incomparable Doug Jones.
Of course much of the interview had to deal with Dougie's experiences in make-up, as he has such a gift of bringing an F/X artist's vision to life in ways unique just to him. »
- Doctor Gash
‘Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo’ – A Fairytale Romance Between Car and Car
2 April 2012 11:14 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Written By Arthur Alsberg and Don Nelson, based on the novel Car, Boy, Girl by Gordon Buford
Directed By Vincent McEveety
USA, 1977, imdb
Listen to our Mousterpiece Cinema Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo podcast or read Josh‘s extended thoughts about the film.
*****
From the time that “Disney’s Folly” paid off and the first-ever animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, became a hit, Disney (the company that Walt created) has been in the business of telling fairy tales. What we sometimes forget is that fairy tales can be stories that reassure children, but also stories that scare the bejeezus out of them. Case in point, the first film that I ever saw: Walt Disney’s Bambi, a film that also terrified Stephen King as a child.
The Herbie series is much more on the reassuring side of the spectrum than the scary side, »
- Michael Ryan
Extended Thoughts on ‘Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo’
24 March 2012 2:00 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Written by Arthur Alsberg and Don Nelson
Starring Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars
The foundation of any solid relationship is communication. Two people may look like they should fit—they have the same interests, the same friends, they’re both good-looking, and so on—but if they can’t communicate with each other, the relationship is dead before it lifts off the ground. In any form of entertainment or media, it’s up to the author or authors to make an audience care about a relationship in whatever story they tell, whether it’s a successful or unsuccessful relationship. We need to care and be invested in these characters either becoming a couple or breaking away from each other, but we can’t just do that automatically. It’s up to the people behind that story to make us care. »
- Josh Spiegel
Wamg Interview: Julie Adams – Star of Creature From The Black Lagoon
19 March 2012 5:42 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
She.ll always be best known as Kay Lawrence, the beauty that the Gillman falls in love with the moment he spies her swimming above him in Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954). Mimicking her movements in the water, the Creature performs a lustful underwater mating dance . he.s directly beneath her but she’s unaware of his amorous overtures in the murky depths of the river. It.s a desire most men (and monster kids) could relate to and Julie Adams is the actress who will always be fondly remembered as the .girl in the white one-piece..
Born Betty May Adams and raised near Little Rock Arkansas, Julie was bit by the acting bug early and moved to California to become an actress. She worked as a secretary to support herself and spent her free time taking speech lessons and making the rounds at the various movie studio casting departments. »
- Tom Stockman
Laurence Fishburne as Mr. White! Inside the all-black (almost) 'Reservoir Dogs' reading
17 February 2012 4:07 PM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Imagine a very smooth, very self-satisfied rattlesnake.
That was what Terrence Howard brought to the role of Mr. Blonde, the casually homicidal madman of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs in a one-night-only live-reading of the script last night.
Now picture an older guy, who probably should be thinking about retirement, but realizes too late he has thrown in with the wrong thugs — and he left his medication at home. That was what Laurence Fishburne did with the part of Mr. White, originated by Harvey Keitel.
Up in the Air and Young Adult filmmaker Jason Reitman has been creating these events for the past five months, »
- Anthony Breznican
Laurence Fishburne as Mr. White! Inside the all-black (almost) 'Reservoir Dogs' reading
17 February 2012 4:07 PM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Imagine a very smooth, very self-satisfied rattlesnake.
That was what Terrence Howard brought to the role of Mr. Blonde, the casually homicidal madman of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs in a one-night-only live-reading of the script last night.
Now picture an older guy, who probably should be thinking about retirement, but realizes too late he has thrown in with the wrong thugs — and he left his medication at home. That was what Laurence Fishburne did with the part of Mr. White, originated by Harvey Keitel.
Up in the Air and Young Adult filmmaker Jason Reitman has been creating these events for the past five months, »
- Anthony Breznican
DVD Release: Fantasy Island: Season Two
15 February 2012 9:23 AM, PST | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
DVD Release Date: May 8, 2012
Price: DVD $39.97
Studio: Shout! Factory
Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize welcome you to Fantasy Island.
Fantasy Island: The Complete Second Season arrives from Shout! Factory more than six years after Sony Pictures Home Entertainment issued Season One on DVD in the fall of 2005.
Finally!
The popular fantasy-adventure ABC television series from the 1970s stars Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) as Mr. Roarke, the sophisticated, near-mystical host of the titular, dream-granting tropical paradise, and Herve Villechaize (The Man with the Golden Gun) as Tattoo, his pint-sized assistant.
Produced by the legendary team of Aaron Spelling (TV’s Charlie’s Angels) and Leonard Goldberg (TV’s Hart to Hart), the 25 episodes of the classic show’s second season (it ran for seven years) feature such wide-ranging guest stars as John Astin (TV’s The Addams Family), Danny Bonaduce (TV’s The Partridge Family), Sonny Bono, »
- Laurence
Randall the Honey Badger guy made an 'anti-old-school animal book'
3 February 2012 6:47 AM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Randall of the now-infamous honey badger video recently spoke with Zap2it about his new book, "Honey Badger Don't Care: Randall's Guide to Crazy, Nastya** Animals." He also tells us the origins of his viral video.
Where did you even get the idea for your honey badger video:
"It was around this time last year. A good friend of mine called me in the middle of the night and says, 'Listen, I have a video you gotta see.' He knew I always loved animals. So he shows me this video and I was amazed. I just couldn't believe this animal. And more than that, I just couldn't believe for as crazy and nasty as it was, the narration was just horrible. It was so dull and boring and I was like, 'You know what? Let's go to town.' He tried to give me a script and I said get outta here. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
The Woman In Black ( 2012 ) – The Review
2 February 2012 9:58 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Although we’re still in the middle of Winter, let’s take in an old-fashioned bone-chiller, one that may have your teeth chattering before exiting into those gusts of frigid air. This is what the new spook-show The Woman In Black promises to deliver. Appropriately enough, this gothic creeper is the second theatrical feature to be released here in the states from the revived British fright film factory Hammer. Now while the studio might be best remembered in their late fifties to mid seventies heyday for full-blooded monsters ( vampires, zombies, and even a gorgon among many others ) this tale of ghosts seeking revenge on the living would’ve fit the bill ( perhaps as part of one of their many double bills! ) But will today’s cinema audiences be able to immerse themselves in a haunted, desolate estate full of creaking floors, quickly melting candles, and sinister secrets after a steady diet of graphic, »
- Jim Batts
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