Random catch-up

[hildy89]

Having a "late game" on Sunday has some good side effects. I duped the last two Boston Blackie movies off the dvr onto tape. I'll have to keep a weather eye on TCM to see if they ever reair "Alias Boston Blackie". I didn't find this batch as interesting as the "Watching the Detectives" group, but mostly these were from the later years of the Columbia series. I still haven't duped off "Dirigible", a 1931 Frank Capra movie with pre-King Kong Fay Wray.

As a fan of the Big Finish audios, it's nice to see the bigfinishlove community. They're running an Big Finish DW audio ficathon. I'm debating whether to sign up for that. I'm leaning in favor of it now, but we'll see.

I've mentioned that 1980 era "Another World" is on AOL Video. In a weird surprise, I've discovered Kevin Conroy (better known as the animated voice of Batman) playing on two of the Proctor & Gamble soaps, "AW" and "Search for Tomorrow" in diametrically opposite roles. If you're a soap fan (or even play the spot the star game), SFT is a trippy trippy experience. I've only watched two episodes from 1984 or thereabouts, and besides Kevin, I've seen Jane Krakowski, Malachy McCourt, Lisa Peluso and Matthew Ashford. If you've watched AW, you'll also recognize long time regular Larry Haines. He briefly played Ada's 1940s era sweetheart & master chef Sidney Sugarman.

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[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Completely randomly, I remember you saying something about wanting to learn more about 8th Doctor novels. You might want to check out dwbookclub. Our first book (which we're just now discussing) was a 7th Doctor novel, but there's a bunch of Eight on the 'available electronically' list and it might be a good 'foot in the door' kind of thing.

[hildy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know. I did grab a massive archive of ebooks recently, but I'll have a look anyway.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

I do think you'd be interested, but my motivation is entirely based on enlightened self interest. I'd love to attract as many intelligent, non-batshit fen there as I possibly can. ;-)

[jordannamorgan]

Apparently either TCM skipped or I missed two of the Boston Blackie movies--I only have twelve. So I'll be watching for them myself. I'll let you know if I see "Alias" come up again.