Tag: entertainment

When writers collide (and a FARB sighting)

I have to confess that I don’t know a lot about the Algonquin Round Table or the group of twenty-plus individuals who were part of it. (I still haven’t seen Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.) The first big names that come to mind if I think of the Round Table are Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Tallulah Bankhead. In fact, until a few minutes ago when I was researching Edna Ferber, I didn’t realize she was one of the Algonquin regulars. I know this is a gap in my literary history, but there’s just never enough time to catch up on the trillions of things I don’t know.

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The Sitcom Meme

As suggested by monkjoel, here’s a list–in no particular order–of the sitcoms that got me through childhood and adolescence and whose episodes I still enjoy watching today. A lot of the really great/classic sitcoms are missing from my list because I only watched them as an adult.

*The Dick Van Dyke Show
*The Donna Reed Show
*Mr. Ed
*Leave It To Beaver
*The Addams Family
*Gidget
*Green Acres
*Get Smart
*The Andy Griffith Show
*That Girl
*Bewitched
*All in the Family
*I Love Lucy
*The Mary Tyler Moore Show
*M*A*S*H

(I had to do 15, Joel, 12 was too hard.)