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by epaddon
Thu Jan 04, 2024 2:38 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Glynis Johns-RIP
Replies: 4
Views: 19373

Glynis Johns-RIP

Just three months after she turned 100, Glynis Johns has sadly passed away.

https://abc7.com/glynis-johns-actress-d ... /14274026/
by epaddon
Fri Oct 06, 2023 1:24 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Glynis Johns Turns 100
Replies: 3
Views: 18190

Glynis Johns Turns 100

I don't think anyone else who appeared on Batman ever made it to the century mark. Certainly no one who had star guest villain/villainess billing.

https://people.com/mary-poppins-star-gl ... ce-8348510
by epaddon
Sat Aug 05, 2023 8:12 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Nancy Kovack Podcast Interview
Replies: 6
Views: 24704

Nancy Kovack Podcast Interview

Nancy Kovack ("Queenie") did an interview on a podcast called "Spyhards" in late June. The chief purpose was to ask her about her small role in the Dean Martin Matt Helm film "The Silencers" but she goes over her entire career from the beginning starting when she was a ...
by epaddon
Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:32 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: TO THE BATPOLES #205: Batman - Star Trek ACT-OFF, pt. 2
Replies: 4
Views: 4672

Re: TO THE BATPOLES #205: Batman - Star Trek ACT-OFF, pt. 2

Whitney has said she believed her alcoholism was the reason she was fired, as opposed to Roddenberry, et al., claiming Rand was written out to allow Kirk to have more romantic encounters with other women. If Whitney is to be taken at her word, then there was really no way she was going to endure a ...
by epaddon
Thu Feb 16, 2023 9:58 am
Forum: Off Topic Lounge
Topic: Raquel Welch
Replies: 5
Views: 2239

Re: Raquel Welch

Back in the days when I used to write Bat fanfic I wrote a story in which I "cast" her as a jungle queen villainess (using imagery from OMYBC to illustrate it) and I enjoyed it so much I subsequently had her character "reform" and wrote a couple dozen stories of her in a spinoff ...
by epaddon
Sat Dec 24, 2022 2:41 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Merry Christmas Bat-friends!
Replies: 14
Views: 4021

Re: Merry Christmas Bat-friends!

Merry Christmas!
by epaddon
Mon Oct 03, 2022 8:33 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: When were Adam and Burt on the Merv Griffin Show?
Replies: 8
Views: 1865

Re: When were Adam and Burt on the Merv Griffin Show?

Thanks for the clip, Ben. Maybe the July '67 IMDB link I found was for a rerun, because the female guest Merv and our heroes are bantering with is indeed Gwen Verdon. She must've been plugging her appearance in Sweet Charity, since the "Charlie" tattoo the heroine sports in that play is o...
by epaddon
Sun Aug 21, 2022 6:57 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Clint Eastwood as Two-Face?
Replies: 14
Views: 7334

Re: Clint Eastwood as Two-Face?

I think the TV commentator angle was what they were committed to from the outset and they never had any intention of doing the Harvey Dent, D.A. origin tale.
by epaddon
Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:12 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: High C Has Passed Away
Replies: 24
Views: 8233

Re: High C Has Passed Away

I know I can say that all these heartfelt sentiments for J.P. and what he meant to our small world of discussion and how he will be deeply missed is appreciated. By being a good guy, he left a legacy for his professional colleagues in the world of sportswriting and for those of us who got to know hi...
by epaddon
Thu Jul 21, 2022 8:37 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: High C Has Passed Away
Replies: 24
Views: 8233

High C Has Passed Away

It is with the deepest sadness that I must report that "High C", long-time member of this board and #1 fan of the Siren, has sadly passed away. I knew him for many years because we lived in the same area and we got together locally. He was a sportswriter for many years who had covered the ...
by epaddon
Sat Jun 18, 2022 11:46 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Black and Decker drill
Replies: 7
Views: 3243

Re: Black and Decker drill

If you want to see Adam's commercial in its full original context, you can find it at 31:15 in this 1964 episode of the short-lived "Mr. Broadway" TV series. Adam also did the voiceover too.

by epaddon
Wed May 25, 2022 1:31 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: My Ranking of the '66 Molls
Replies: 11
Views: 4296

Re: My Ranking of the '66 Molls

For those who want to get a true sense of what a great actress Julie Gregg was, a second season "Kojak" where she has a five minute scene as a drug addict going through withdrawal is one of the most compelling things I have ever seen and why she didn't get an Emmy for it I'll never know. T...
by epaddon
Tue May 24, 2022 12:18 am
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: Molls who were redeemed vs. those who weren't.
Replies: 3
Views: 1582

Re: Molls who were redeemed vs. those who weren't.

There is a higher percentage of "redeemed" molls in Season 1 because they frequently used the moll's redemption as the basis for the final tag scene of an episode. And inevitably, these tag scenes would end with the same music cue, a soulful sounding one that you can hear for the episode w...
by epaddon
Fri May 13, 2022 6:45 pm
Forum: Bat Board
Topic: My Ranking of the '66 Molls
Replies: 11
Views: 4296

Re: My Ranking of the '66 Molls

Have to disagree strongly on Finella as "just eye candy" because Julie Gregg gives a legitimately brilliant acting performance as a dippy Monroe type moll that is nothing at all like her actual persona was (which often can't be said of a lot of moll actresses who are basically being typeca...
by epaddon
Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:00 am
Forum: Off Topic Lounge
Topic: TO THE BATPOLES special: "MOVIN' WITH NANCY"
Replies: 3
Views: 1639

Re: TO THE BATPOLES special: "MOVIN' WITH NANCY"

To me, the special succeeds for the most part. It captures the Zeitgeist of the era and Nancy demonstrated why she was a meteor who found her niche within that Zeitgeist thanks to the image makeover she got from Lee Hazlewood and the arrangements he did for her. The image of Nancy as a kind of rebel...