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My subscription just renewed about a month ago so I guess I'll be seeing that refund soon. I haven't watched in many months, probably close to a year and I'm still in the early 70s episodes. But I kept the scrip since it wasn't very much. I had a feeling this subscription thing was going to tank sooner rather than later, for several reasons. One is that they never really lived up to their early declarations of what the paid content was going to have. I remember "trivia games" being mentioned and how it all was going to be so interactive. I know COVID sidelined some things, including access to their warehouse. But, 3 years down the road from that and they hadn't really added much of anything new. (I'll have to check out the site again; last time I checked a couple of weeks ago was when they had that disappearing act except for that horror channel and then the episodes came back all jumbled and not monthly sectioned like it had been.) I also think that they probably overestimated the amount of people that were willing to pay premium for what amounted to just one series. All along, the whole thing has felt like, to mix metaphors, the little guys were trying to play in the big leagues and perhaps biting off more than they could chew. It all just sounded more lofty and exciting than how it turned out.

Aw, Gordon. He had so many health problems over the years that I think he was happy just to be alive. He felt like he was on borrowed time for years. I love “Sundown“ and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald“. I’m glad that he was able to overcome all that and perform again in his later years.

Kym Johnson-Herjavec's tribute to Jerry: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrjwqrtybRt/ Her appearance today on Australian tv being interviewed about him: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrkFkKMuFPI/

I think viewers fell in love with both of them then. They had the odds against them and I don't mean just in terms of his lack of dancing skill. She was the new girl on the show, the fans didn't know her, she wasn't American, and they thought they knew more than they wanted to about Jerry. I think their friendship, her patience with him, his (suprising to many) humility, self-deprecation and kindness, and the love for his family made the viewers keep voting for them to stay. Then they did the father/daughter style Tennessee Waltz and she taught him and his daughter to dance for the daughter's upcoming wedding. I know I saw a side to the man watching him then that I hadn't expected. I still didn't watch his show but I was more aware of the man himself.

I follow Kym Herjavec's IG page. She posted her reaction to Len Goodman's death. I'm sure there'll be one for Jerry as well as he was her first partner when she debuted on the US DWTS and they remained good friends. She's losing friends left and right. She once toured with Barry Humphries and she adored Olivia Newton-John, who sang at her wedding. https://www.instagram.com/p/Crau-3IPawK/ (for Len)

That's the same one I saw, Jam! Maybe we were there at the same time. 😉 Rosalind also mentions on the DVD that the only time she's ever gotten married is when she "married" Leonard Frey in the film.

Yes, and they used hair from director Norman Jewison's greying beard to age him, lol. Plus, he was also quite thin and lanky...lots of padding, lol.

I loved Topol in Fiddler. It's one of my favorite movies, probably my favorite musical. I have the anniversary DVD. Got to see him do the Broadway revival as well in the early 90s. He also played a Nazi hunter in "The House on Garibaldi Street." 😪

Maurizio Costanzo, called the king of Italian tv talk show hosts; his show has been on some 40 years. He appeared on The David Letterman Show at least once and also survived an attempted mafia hit by car bomb.

I've never watched Law & Order. I remember Richard Belzer from, of all things, Alan Thicke's single season of "Thicke of the Night" back in the early 80s.

We've lost another former child star. What's so weird to me about this is that recently, out of nowhere, the thought came to me that John Astin would be the last survivor of The Addams Family, even though he's in his 90s. I knew nothing about her health problems. R.I.P. Lisa Loring https://deadline.com/2023/01/lisa-loring-dead-actor-original-wednesday-addams-1235243958/

Gina leaves behind the inevitable feuding over the estate situation, which actually started long before her death, and who in her life was or wasn't taking advantage. She has a much-younger "ex-husband" she supposedly married in Spain in 2006 then claimed years later he had committed fraud with an imposter by "marrying" her by proxy. Her long-time aide lives in her house with his companion and there are accusations of him taking advantage. Her son, her only child, was estranged from her and claims the aide took advantage of her diminished mental capacity.

Another untimely passing. I remember him being all over tv in the 70s. He was an excellent child/teen actor. And Salem's Lot is a favorite of mine. He left acting and, apparently, fell on hard financial times the last couple of years; there was even a gofundme page set up on his behalf, which didn't raise very much.

I must admit I didn't know who she was until I read that she was in one of my favorite films, Fiddler On The Roof. She played the ghost of Fruma Sarah, Lazar Wolf's dead wife, who was part of Tevye's "dream" sequence.

Cher posted on Twitter that her mother has died. Georgia Holt was 96.

I loved this one. They became my 2nd favorite couple on the show ever, after OG Clint & Viki. They had great chemistry.

He was on DOOL as Robert LeClair on and off from 1972-1987 but is probably best remembered for his role on Hogan's Heroes. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-clary-dead-hogans-heroes-1235263555/

R.I.P. Andrew Prine https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/andrew-prine-dead-chisum-wide-country-westerns-1235255201/?fbclid=IwAR2l6aPPSJcjyAQigMAEp3tc_Ok25k7fpqPZl2AZ75ebecAD4aRLXq0R9K8

Amber Tamblyn (GH) is doing a book tour.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-brown-dead-here-come-the-brides-1235231988/ Robert Brown, ‘Here Come the Brides’ Actor, Dies at 95

So I've had the same smartphone for the last 5 years, a Samsung Galaxy S7. It's actually my first smartphone (yeah, I came late to the party). Anyway, I am now considering a new phone. I've never owned Apple products (except for those little ipod shuffles for playing music) and I went with Samsung for this phone cuz I owned a couple of their tablets so I was familiar with the environment. My main motivation at this point is memory. My current phone only has 32GB plus I use a memory card. Still, between the bloatware that I can't delete and apps that I can't move, I'm often having to move or delete things to make room while their app upgrades eat away at the memory. Plus, I've been seeing screenburned icons for years. That being said, it's been a good little phone functionally. I've been researching both the newer Samsungs and the iphones (particularly the 13 pro) and reading comparison articles on iphone vs. android but am still undecided. Any recommendations or insights? Thanks!