If it's Diana Canova singing, I'm not complaining. By the time "Phantom" came around, she was probably too old to play Christine, but I recall she had one helluva soprano voice.
Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected] On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 12:00 PM Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, remember this summer replacement variety show from 1976, starring > 60-year-old Dinah Shore and a bunch of over-eager performers in their > twenties? > I'm ashamed to say I do. > > Bruce Kimmel, one of the cast members, has dug up a 14-minute highlight > reel and posted his memories of it on his blog, along with a link to the > reel: > > http://www.haineshisway.com/2019/06/dinah-and-her-new-best-friends-forty-four-years-later/ > > I didn't laugh once watching the reel - which pretty much gibes with my > memories. > (My other memory of this show is that after the second episode, I was > tired of Gary Mule Deer's standup routines.) > But I was ten years old, and we kids watched it because that's what we did > in those days - there were 3 networks, it was summer, and we watched > whatever wasn't a rerun. > > Bruce's essay is worth reading to explain how this got on the air. > And the reel will give you a pretty accurate picture of what TV variety > was really like in those days. There was The Carol Burnett Show, and there > was everything else... and this was what everything else was like. (Even > though it was shot in Carol's studio by Carol's crew.) > As he says, the sketch where Cindy Williams and Bruce play honeymooners is > the best thing here, probably because it's the only thing here that's not a > blackout or a song. But it's still a pretty bad skit - the premise is > predictable and the "joke" of a guy slugging is wife is shockingly > distasteful by today's standards. (Also, the skit is really badly directed > - you can see the shadow of the boom mike repeatedly.) > > According to his latest blog post ( > http://www.haineshisway.com/2019/07/as-if-one-wasnt-enough/), there's one > more video waiting to be posted. > You have been warned. > > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1d147269-9115-4c79-921d-d5a6fae97cba%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1d147269-9115-4c79-921d-d5a6fae97cba%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi8bceMXofYyfCTk4QyO-jfK1w_jb4dZNGioJNB0cBhFGQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
