Nancy James is a remnant of the days when Cincy was considered the best local TV market in the country and was awash with locally-produced live variety shows with singers and house bands into the 80s--James was on Bob Braun's midday show, the successor to the legendary in Cincy "Ruth Lyons' 50-50 Club" that was simulcast on WLW Radio and Avco's stations in Columbus, Dayton and Indy (the Dayton station spawned Phil Donahue). As the 80s wore on, Avco's successors Multimedia fired the band and singers and turned Braun's show into a single-topic Donahue-style talk show and when Braun retired, his replacement was--Jerry Springer.
And unlike seemingly every other woman on Cincy TV back then, James was (and is) not a blonde--here she is from the Braun show singing Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer's "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" with blonde Mary Ellen Tanner: http://youtu.be/3ALKsMrgYS4 Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected] On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > Cincinnati.com, the site of the *Enquirer*, has that Gannett-typical soft > paywall, so here's Bill Kiesewetter's piece > <http://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/television/2014/06/08/cosby-plans-return-tv-nbc/10098221/>, > *sans* an unrelated blurb on a performance by local fave Nancy James... > > > Thirty years after "The Cosby Show" debuted, Bill Cosby is preparing his > NBC comedy comeback. > > "I've got it all put together, man! I even have my wardrobe ready," said > Cosby, 76, who performs 8 p.m. Saturday at the Aronoff Center. > > For the first time since Hollywood trade publications announced in January > that NBC made a deal for a half-hour sitcom with Cosby and Tom Werner, the > former "Cosby Show" producer turned Boston Red Sox chairman, Cosby talked > about the prospect of returning to TV. > > "I would love to lay out some of those wonderful thoughts that I have now > (on parenting, families and marriage)," said TV's former Dr. Cliff Huxtable > in a phone interview. "People who I meet in the airport keep asking me: > When are you going to come back?" > > It would be a multigenerational family show set in Los Angeles, he said. > "The Cosby Show" (1984-92), TV's No. 1 series for five seasons (fall 1985 > through May 1990), was set and filmed in New York close to Cosby's East > Coast home. > > Cosby envisions his new show appealing to today's parents who watched the > show when were the same ages as Denise, Theo, Vanessa or Rudy Huxtable when > they watched the show. A 40-something father recently told him that "when I > saw Theo and Cliff and Clair, I laughed so hard. Now I'm a parent, and I'm > still laughing as hard, but I'm on the other side of the table," Cosby said. > > His new NBC family – like his old one, and his CBS "Cosby" family > (1996-2000) – would show a loving couple respected by their children, which > he said doesn't appear often on TV today. > > "People say they love each other (on TV), they say they're married and > these things, but the way they talk to each other, it doesn't sound like > it. I don't see anybody kissing! And the children are still a pain in the > neck, with parents being afraid to say something to them," he said. > > Werner, who produced "The Cosby Show" with Marcy Carsey, has been working > with two writers on the show, Cosby said. He did not name them. > > Cosby didn't seem fazed by the high-profile failures last fall by former > NBC sitcom stars Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes last season. > > "Why not be excited at 76 years old?" he said. "I have a lot to say." > > It could be long time before he's on again. NBC put Cosby's comeback on > the "off-season development track," which means the show wasn't being > developed for the fall TV season announced in May, said Rebecca Marks, NBC > Universal Television Group Publicity executive vice president. > > "We've got two guys writing, who are wonderful writers, and we just have > to wait patiently, because they've got their own shows to put on," Cosby > said. > > "I hope NBC has sense enough to pick it up … because it will be fantastic. > Then we'll see if all those people at the airport will tune in." > > Tickets ($39.50-$69.50) for Cosby's 8 p.m. Saturday concert are available > at CincinnatiArts.org, (531) 621-2787 or Aronoff Center ticket office, > 650 Walnut St., Downtown. > > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
