I'm in A Larry King 'Fringe TV Show' Mood

I have been asked what a "Larry King TV Mood" is. Damn, at 55, 56 on Dec. 23, I already have had to explain to some readers that Paul McCartney was with a band before Wings. Has it really been so long since Larry King did his little weekly column for USA Today? It was only 2001 when it was dropped. Only about a decade. Oh......maybe I am AM old. Larry used to write a short column that had even shorter references to things he wanted to comment on. One line comments on many topics. Actually they were barely comments. Mostly, they were one line incomplete thoughts. I stole some of these actual excerpts from an article on Medsacape Today. The parenthesis are my comments. Wouldn't want you to think Larry was too wordy or talked to himself. "Sandy Koufax really likes egg cremes" (Does anyone but Sandy care? Or should they?) "Jimmy Breslin never told a lie -- ever" (Would his wife agree?) "Madonna, it is said, is fond of ficus" (of what???? A sacred FIG????) "Gary Cooper's right arm was 4 inches longer than his left arm" (No wonder he was picked to play Lou Gherig) "Last week, I shaved my feet" (Top or bottom Larry?) You get the idea. So my short little "mood" pieces are thoughts I don't really have sufficent time to devote for them to become blog entries of any real substance, but I wanted to mention these random thoughts I might, but probably won't, elaborate on someday. The red bold face type is all Larry would have said. I like to think my thoughts have a LITTLE more substance. So here we go!!!!!! Have you seen Food Networks' "Seasons Eatings" promos with their claymation type versions of their stable of stars? Most are fairly resemblent of their real life counterparts, but my little sweetie, Rachel Ray, needs to back hand them through next Sunday. Somehow she came out looking like Michael Jackson on ice skates. Have Oprah take a hit out on 'em for that girl! For years I wanted to grow up to be David Letterman, who by the way is Mr. Class for paying his non writer staff during the writer's strike, and being the FIRST of the Late Night Talk show brotherhood to do that. Way to go Dave! Now, I want to be Anthony Bourdain, or at least his buddy. We could be great friends. We are nearly clones anyway. On his Travel Channel show "No Reservations", he travels the world, smokes like a furnace, drinks like a fish and eats pork to excess. I do that too. However, due to lack of a tv budget I am forced to confine those activities to my backyard. I was shocked to find out that the Discovery Channel's "Cash Cab host, Ben Bailey, whose hair style I emulate, passes out 'stage money' to his winners and they have to wait till the network sends 'em a check. Damn I hate corporate broadcasting since deregulation. I do love the show & Ben is great. I also find it interesting how many people answer in the form of a question as if they were on Jeopardy. If you did that on Comedy Central's 'Win Ben Stein's Money' you would be penalised for that. Does anyone have a tougher job than Les Stroud on the Science Channel's 'Survivorman'? This guy survives with less stuff than MacGyver, in deserts, swamps, & the Arctic Circle for 7 days. No food, water & no camera crew. That's right, no crew. He carries around his own camera equipment & films it all himself. Even walking away from his camera. Then he comes back a mile or so just to get it. All he usually has with him is one match, 3 Fritos Corn Chips, a shoe string and a harmonica. What a pain. You are right Les! You're not paid enough for that shit, but it's great tv. Honorable mentions: Dinner Impossible on Food TV Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel Cash & Treasures on the Travel Channel High Stakes Poker on GSN, This season all players had to put up a $500,000 buyin, with their own money. That means some hands, so far, have been worth nearly $1,000,000 each. Who does Doyle Brunson's taxes? By the way, Torchwood, Series 2, will premiere on BBC America 1/26/08, about the same time it begins on the BBC across the pond. No word yet on Series 4 of Doctor Who in the states, featuring the return of Billie Piper as Rose Tyler. Since leaving the Doctor Who, where she won several Best Actress awards co-starring with both Christopher Eccleston & David Tennant, Billie is wowing brit audiences, in "The Secret Diary of a Call Girl" renewed for a second series on ITV, and she returns to the role of Sally Lockhart this Christmas as the BBC adapts a second Philip Pullman book "The Shadow in the North" for television. Her first, "The Ruby in the Smoke", was seen here on PBS's 'Masterpiece Theatre'. Britian's former pop princess, Billie Piper, has really shown she can act with all these diverse roles she has taken. She was even nominated for the prestigious Evening Standard theatre award for her first major stage role as best actress for her work in the Christopher Hampton play Treats.