Prompter Bob has been working in television production for 30 years as a producer, researcher, and teleprompter operator.
Current projects include CBS Early Show, CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, and the Wendy Williams Show.
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Like millions of other curious dopes, I tuned in at 11am today to watch Tiger Wood's so-called press conference. If it hasn't done so already a dozen times over, TV journalism definitely jumped the shark today with all major networks and their anchors covering this pathetic man's attempt to re-boot his multi-million dollar career. Is this really news Brian, Diane and Katie? I lost count how many times Tiger said he was sorry. But why is he apologizing to us? The only person he should be saying he's sorry to is his wife--and in private. There's nothing worse than a cheating spouse, but to move on, Tiger needs his wife's forgiveness, not ours.
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I love 'House.' For me, it's still can't miss TV. But after six seasons, I've come to the realization that Dr. Gregory House, played with bad-ass perfection by British actor Hugh Laurie, isn't the medical genius he's cracked up to be. In almost every episode, House and his team are confronted with a medical mystery. During the hour, House comes up with at least 5 or 6 wrong diagnoses and quickly prescribes drugs, tests, procedures and sometimes even surgeries, which do nothing to help the patient and much of the time causes them undue pain and suffering. At the end of the show, House has some kind of revelation, which finally leads to the correct diagnosis. Whether the patient lives or dies is irrelevant. The important thing is that House has solved the medical mystery and his ego and curiosity are satisfied. It seems to me that House's brilliance is more process of elimination than genius. But it's still fun to watch. By the way, if I ever get really ill, I hope I wind up at House's fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Patients there get terrific non-stop care by a team of top doctors who can order up any test, procedure or surgery at the snap of a finger, with no waiting and no expense spared. Now that's healthcare reform I can support.
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It was a lot of fun prompting Snoop Dogg. The [ ] in the scripts are where the curse words were censored for TV.
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Guess the third cowboy couldn't be bothered to run for his life. Hard to believe Jack Nicholson made a lot of these crummy B-movies before hitting it big.
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It was very sad to wake up this morning to news that Soupy Sales (83) had died after a long illness. Soupy was one of my childhood TV heroes. He was responsible for shaping my warped sense of humor and he inspired me to work in television. Growing up in the "golden age" of TV kids shows is something that I really cherish. Back then kids were able to relate to real people like Soupy, Sandy Becker, Sonny Fox and Chuck McCann, not just watch politically correct cartoons, as kids do today. My earliest memory of Soupy Sales was watching his daily show, Lunch with Soupy Sales, which came out of Detroit at noon and was seen on the ABC network. Like many pre-school kids around the country, I sat in front of the TV and ate my peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a glass of milk, along with Soupy. Of course, for dessert there was the mandatory Jello, which Soupy always jiggled in front of the camera.
Soupy's genius was that he broke down the 4th wall and the studio crew became part of the show, antagonizing and heckling him, along with his puppet pals, Black Tooth, White Fang, Hippy and Pookie. Soupy was also the first to do a kids show that really wasn't just for the kids. There were always jokes and inuendos intended for the huge number of adults who watched the show, some of which got Soupy in hot water. Who can forget Soupy's visit from a stripper and the infamous "little green pices of paper" incident?
A great big BOO to WNYW Fox 5 in New York. Channel 5, which used to be WNEW, was home to The Soupy Sales Show in the 1960's. This morning, Good Day NY barely mentioned Soupy's death except to say that he had died and he used to tape his show in the same studio.
Fortunately, I had the chance to meet Soupy once when I was working on The Sally Jessy Raphael Show back in the late 80's or early 90's. Soupy was a guest along with Adam West (TV's Batman), Bob Denver (Gilligan) and Russell Johnson (The Professor) from Gilligan's Island. Soupy was very nice and autographed one of his record albums for my wife.
Stealing a phrase from my current TV boss, Wendy Williams, Soupy will always be a "friend in my head." It is heartening to see that "Soupy Sales" is trending on Twitter this morning. It's fun to read the Tweets from his many fans.
If you're a Soupy Sales fan too, you should read this wonderful article from today's Detroit Free Press by Tim Kiska, who does a great job tracing Soupy's career from his early days in Detroit and through the various incarnations of The Soupy Sales Show. A quick search of YouTube will bring you a treasure trove of clips from Soupy's shows. I'm going to post two good ones here. First is a great interview with Soupy by Bill O'Reilly and the other is an extended clip from The Soupy Sales Show featuring Soupy Sez and his hit song, "Do the Mouse".Here's a bonus video of Soupy and the stripper I found on YouTube. The clip first shows what was seen on air and then shows an alternate version featuring the naked stripper behind the door. You've got to admit this was pretty ballsy stunt to pull on a kids TV show in the 60's. No one could ever get away with something like this today.
I'd love to hear your comments and memories of Soupy.
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Why did the world black out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds? How come almost everyone on the planet experienced that time as a snippet from their lives six months in the future?
FBI agents Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) and Demetri Noh (John Cho) have been assigned to the case because Benford saw himself working the case in the future, and they've already started developing theories about the cause of the flash-forward. But fans of the TV show are already way ahead of them. (In fact, even before a second episode aired, there was already a blog devoted to these theories.)
Here are some of the more interesting theories we've seen. (Warning! Spoilers ahead.)
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Is your TIVO so packed its hard drive is ready to explode? Do you have stacks of unwatched Netflix DVD's? Piles of unread books or magazines? Loads of dusty CD's you've never listened to? If so, you are suffering from Entertainment Debt - a modern day malady defined as having too much media to consume in too little time. And let's not forget media costs a lot of money - and that's another kind of debt to worry about.
My own quick inventory tallied 42 movies and dozens of TV episodes waiting on my DVR. I have a pile of unwatched DVD's, including the first season of In Treatment, seasons 1 and 2 of Mad Men and the mini-series Band of Brothers. Add to this a bunch of weekly technology podcasts on my Apple TV and over 300 Netflix "watch instantly" movies queued on my Roku box. Plus, the fall TV season is just weeks away and I'll be pushing my DirecTV HD DVR to the limits with new episodes of Heroes, Fringe, House, Sons of Anarchy, Stargate Universe, Flash Forward, The Big Bang Theory, The Office, 30 Rock, Lost, 24... Yikes! How big is your Entertainment Debt? Let's hear from you.Comments [0]
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The Wendy Williams Show premieres today nationwide and daytime TV will never be the same. If you haven't heard of Wendy Williams, I promise you she'll be a household name very soon. The show is all about having fun and I'm so proud to be working on it. To learn out more about Wendy and find out where to watch it in your area go to http://wendyshow.com.
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