Happy 89th Birthday To Sir Roger Moore

Happy 89th birthday to Sir Roger Moore.

Moore, who portrayed James Bond on the big screen and Simon Templar, aka The Saint, on TV, has also written several books, including his autobiography, My Word is My Bond.

You can read about Sir Roger Moore via the below link:

http://www.biography.com/people/roger-moore-9413743

Note: And Happy 75th birthday to another gentleman of the old school, my former Philadelphia Inquirer editor and friend, Frank Wilson. You can visit his popular blog, Books, Inq, at http://booksinq.blogspot.com

Ouch: Conan O'Brien On New Sex Survey

Conan O'Brien told a good one on his late night show:

A new study has shown that women who get more sleep have better sex. Unfortunately, the study was conducted by Bill Cosby.

Ouch, indeed.

You can visit Conan O'Brien's web site via the below link:

http://teamcoco.com/

Batman 75th Anniversary: An A-Z Of The Dark Knight

Simon Reynolds at digitalspy.com looks back at 75 years of the Batman character.

Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939, Batman debuted on the cover of Detective Comics #27 swinging across the Gotham City rooftops to apprehend a bank robber.

In the decades since the Caped Crusader's comic book bow, the character has traversed almost every entertainment medium possible - TV, film, animation, video games - to cement himself as one of the world's most recognizable cultural icons.

You can read the rest of the piece and watch a video clip via the below link:

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/feature/a565584/batman-75th-anniversary-an-a-z-of-the-dark-knight.html#~oFtBznK1h6Eti5

Jay Leno Jokes On Last Tonight Show

 

I watched Jay Leno's Tonight Show last night, and as usual, I laughed at his monologue.

 

I'm going to miss his nightly jokes on politics, popular culture and the news.  

 

Below are some of his jokes on his last Tonight Show:

 

I don’t like goodbyes. NBC does.

 

Well, tonight is our last show for real. See, I don’t need to get fired three times. I get the hint.

 

You know, being together all these years, the staff is very close. It's kind of like graduating high school — a high school for really stupid people that have been in the same class for 22 years.

 

And the worst thing about losing this job, I'm no longer covered by NBC. I have to sign up for Obamacare.

 

When I started hosting, Justin Bieber wasn’t even born yet. That's why we call those “the good old days."

 

It was revealed this week that in the past couple years Hugh Grant has fathered three children with two different women. How ironic is that? I end my run the same way it began — asking Hugh Grant, "What the hell were you thinking?" Twenty-two years later, I ask him the same question.  

An Interview With Timothy Olyphant

I watched and enjoyed the first episode of Justified, season two, this week.

I believe the TV program truly captures crime writer Elmore Leonard's original and quirky characters.

Timothy Olyphant, who stars as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, is interviewed by Collider.com.

You can read the interview via the below link:

http://collider.com/timothy-olyphant-interview-justified-season-2/75640/

Danger Man: A Classic Spy TV Program from the 1960s

A web site dedicated to all things James Bond, http://www.mi6.co.uk/, is offering an interesting piece on one of Bond's competitors, Danger Man.
 

http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/beyond_bond/danger_man.php3?t=&s=&id=02329
 

Danger Man, which aired on TV in the 1960s, starred Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake.

Drake was a cool, tough agent like Bond, but he didn't carry a gun, shoot anyone or seduce women.
 

I was and am a big fan of the early James Bond films in the 1960s and the Ian Fleming thrillers, but I also liked Danger Man, or Secret Agent, which was what the program was called in the United States.
 

I like McGoohan's next TV program, The Prisoner, even better. It was a clever, interesting program way ahead of its time.
 

Sadly, we recently lost Patrick McGoohnan. He was a talented man.