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Bernard David Jones – Hangin’ With the Mayor

PopEntertainment

Oct 3, 2017
10 min

Bernard David Jones – Hangin’ With the Mayor

Bernard David Jones in “The Mayor.” Bernard David Jones Hangin’ With the Mayor By Jay S. Jacobs How is this for a TV series concept? An entertainer, who has no government experience or knowledge of the job, gets elected into an important political office, just on the strength of his personality. Come on, are people really going to buy into that? Really? “I think we can imagine that actually happening,” Bernard David Jones said, laughing hard. “I think we can put that out ther

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Adam F. Goldberg – Growing Up With The Goldbergs

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Mar 11, 2016
12 min

Adam F. Goldberg – Growing Up With The Goldbergs

Adam F. Goldberg Adam F. Goldberg Growing Up With The Goldbergs by Jay S. Jacobs As a website based in the suburban town of Jenkintown, PA, we here at PopEntertainment.com had gotten used to people outside of the area not knowing exactly where we were. Sometimes we’d go the simple route and just explain that it is a suburb of Philadelphia. Sometimes we’d bring up local fun facts, like pointing out that movie star Bradley Cooper grew up a few blocks away from our offices. No

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Kathryn Dean – Life Isn’t About Being Perfect

PopEntertainment

Sep 7, 2015
4 min

Kathryn Dean – Life Isn’t About Being Perfect

Kathryn Dean Kathryn Dean Life Isn’t About Being Perfect by Shana Bergmann Only a few minutes into speaking with Kathryn Dean one thing becomes painfully obvious: she is one of the most charismatic and intelligent up-and-coming artists you’re likely to have the pleasure to talk to. The 19-year-old singer is undoubtedly taking the music business by storm – and on a global scale too. Some of her accomplishments include being featured on multiple television networks (including b

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Denny Tedesco, Hal Blaine and Don Randi – Building Up the Wrecking Crew

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Mar 14, 2015
22 min

Denny Tedesco, Hal Blaine and Don Randi – Building Up the Wrecking Crew

The Wrecking Crew Denny Tedesco, Hal Blaine and Don Randi Building Up the Wrecking Crew by Jay S. Jacobs The Wrecking Crew was the house band for an entire generation. But chances are, you’ve never heard of them. The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of studio musicians who played on many of the biggest hits of the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. They provided backing for Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, The Monkee

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PopEntertainment

Mar 13, 2015
4 min

The Wrecking Crew (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

The Wrecking Crew THE WRECKING CREW (2015) Featuring Brian Wilson, Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Tommy Tedesco, Hal Blaine, Don Randi, Carol Kaye, Joe Osborn, Earl Palmer, Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, Herb Alpert, Roger McGuinn, Dick Clark, Jimmy Webb, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, Bones Howe, Lou Adler, H.B. Barnum, Al Casey, Snuff Garrett, Larry Knechtel, Larry Levine, Lew McCreary, Bill Pittman, Carmy Tedesco and Denny Tedesco and archival footage of The Association, Chuck Barris, The

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Alley Mills, Olivia d’Abo & Danica McKellar – Looking Back in Wonder

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Oct 19, 2014
37 min

Alley Mills, Olivia d’Abo & Danica McKellar – Looking Back in Wonder

The cast of “The Wonder Years” recently reunited to celebrate the DVD release of the series. l to r: Alley Mills, Josh Saviano, Olivia d’Abo, Jason Hervey, Fred Savage, Danica McKellar and Dan Lauria Alley Mills, Olivia d’Abo & Danica McKellar Looking Back in Wonder by Jay S. Jacobs On January 31, 1988, just moments after Washington killed Denver in Super Bowl XXII, ABC aired the premiere of a new little series about suburban life in the 1960s. The Wonder Years broke a lot of

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PopEntertainment

Dec 31, 2013
6 min

Erin Murphy – Which Witch is Which?

Erin Murphy Erin Murphy Which Witch is Which? by Ronald Sklar On the eve of the series’ 50th anniversary, the beloved Bewitched baby conjures up many magical memories. Here are some not-too-shabby resume bullet points for this former child actor: Worked closely and regularly with such theater and screen legends as Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, Maurice Evans, and Alice Ghostley. Her character’s birth was among the most anticipated events in the history of television.

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PopEntertainment

Oct 25, 2005
5 min

The Frank Sinatra Show – High Hopes (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Frank Sinatra Show – High Hopes The Frank Sinatra Show High Hopes (MVD-2005) The old and true adage that “it’s Frank Sinatra’s world – we just live in it” is best illustrated during his Rat Pack years, from the very late fifties until the early sixties. Here you see the Chairman of the Board in his glorious, power-pipe action, during one in a series of “spectaculars” for the struggling ABC network from 1957-1960 (culminating with his famous welcome-home-from-the-army for

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PopEntertainment

Nov 30, 2004
8 min

After School Specials 1974-1976 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Afterschool Specials 1974-1976 After School Specials 1974-1976 (BCI Eclipse-2004) In the early 1960s, FCC chairman Newton Minnow called television “a vast wasteland,” accusing the entertainment industry of producing mind-numbing and mediocre offerings, as gray and dull as dishwater. Even President Kennedy agreed that the medium was not reaching its full potential, and in effort to balance things out he passed legislation for the expansion of public television. In this brave n

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PopEntertainment

May 14, 2003
15 min

Joshua Malina – Hail to the Chief

Joshua Malina in “The West Wing.” Joshua Malina Hail to the Chief by Jay S. Jacobs There are lots of ways that people go about trying to get their first big break in acting. Some people kill themselves working a minimum wage job while floating from audition to audition. Some try other arts, like music or modeling, as an entrance. Some people sit on a stool in a Hollywood soda fountain and wait to get discovered. Some eat something gross on national television. Joshua Malin

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Peter Krause- Helping to Make TV Safe for Smart People

PopEntertainment

Oct 2, 1999
15 min

Peter Krause- Helping to Make TV Safe for Smart People

Peter Krause in “Sports Night” Peter Krause Helping to Make TV Safe for Smart People by Jay S. Jacobs The fall of 1998 was a tough time for television comedy. The networks tried to come up with a plan for post-Seinfeld TV, but the best they seemed to be able to come up with were tired retreads like Jesse, Two of a Kind and Maggie Winters. But shining like a diamond in the empty mine of a new comedy schedule was one true pedigree. Sports Night was a smart and funny look behind

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They May Have Been Gone, But They’re Still Classic

By Isa Barnett

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They May Have Been Gone, But They’re Still Classic

By Isa Barnett