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Doesn't surprise me, although I never saw it. I was amused initially by the discovery, but he was just so bad... it's getting harder to watch him.

Sorry for the delayed response, I couldn't access the board last night. Yeah, the harpist/bandleader (Adrian Van Voorhees) on "Primetime Glick" was played my McKean. He was interviewed by Glick on one episode, presented as though the scheduled guest hadn't shown up. For me, the only way Glick really worked was in the interview setting. The spinoff skits with him at home with his wife Dixie (played by Jan Hooks), and his opening monologues on Primetime Glick didn't have the same snap. I just recently watched an interview with Short where he talked a bit about the Thurm character. I think the biggest inspiration for it was actually a grouchy make-up woman who worked for SNL.

I like to laugh. Lately I've probably been more focused on comedy than music, in fact. I enjoy Youtube for both, but comedy has been more on my radar recently. So, perhaps a week ago I happened upon a Jiminy Glick interview with Steve Martin on Youtube. I hadn't seen any Glick for years, and after I viewed this one, over the next several days I proceeded to view every Glick interview I could find... Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Lovitz, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, and on and on. Could not get enough, in fact I'm watching some of them two or three times, because I'm fascinated by comedic improvisation, timing, quick thinking and references, expressions, the straight man role, the whole artistic nature of it. I have also been watching some interviews of Martin Short (by Letterman, Conan, etc), and kept my ears open for any comments about the Glick character, wanting to learn more about where the inspiration came from. The only thing I could find was Short referring generally to having seen morons on daytime tv who had their own shows, as well as old acquaintances with quirky voices and mannerisms. I get that, and just accepted it, but it seemed kind of vague with regard to the tv hosts. Then today, within a week of "rediscovering" Glick, I went to Adam Carolla's podcast website, which I visit regularly. I see three somewhat dated interview videos linked on there, which happened to be mentioned during Adam's podcast today. They featured Milton Berle, Tony Curtis, and Shelley Winters. There's also a name attached to each video.... the host... "Skip E. Lowe". ?? I've never heard of Skip E. Lowe. I do a search, and learn that beginning in the late 70's, he conducted interviews of many major celebritiies and entertainers, but that these shows were mainly shown on obscure public access tv stations in New York and L.A. before being made available to some cable outlets in other large markets. Here's an excerpt from Lowe's 9/23/14 obituary from The Hollywood Reporter: "Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood, which debuted in 1978, had the host and his interview subjects facing each other in chairs and chatting for a half-hour. The show, which went unedited and often employed extremely tight close-ups, was often shot in high schools or community-room studios with poor equipment and lighting, on videotapes that Lowe paid for himself." I watched one of the Lowe interviews (with Berle) on the Carolla site, and within about 30 seconds, I realize that this guy was (practically) Jiminy Glick in real life! Wow. I googled him, and then it all came together. Apparently Short had indeed mentioned Lowe as a basis for Glick, on one of his Letterman appearances. Anyway, I found all of this to be rather surprising and delightful, and I'm looking forward to watching more of Lowe's interviews. They're not quite as funny as Glick's, but they are funny with Glick as a reference point. I think it will be somewhat fascinating to see the "real thing" unfold in more depth.

Not iconic, but...

Bob Newhart Robert Newhouse The Carpenters

Daley Blind Citizen Kane Mike Curb

M.C. Escher N.C. Wyeth O.C. Smith

Godzilla? Gumby? This is so hard...

Mrs. Muir The Cowsills Buddy Ebsen

Dwayne Dolphin Luiz Eça

Yes to Picasso and Babe Ruth. Mays (and Aaron) over Mantle. Johnny Carson

Chaplin for sure. And no Marty Feldman? Sinatra > Madonna (I might even put Nancy Sinatra over Madonna ). Bing Crosby > Princess Di Random ideas... Bob Hope, George Burns, Jack Benny, Milton Berle...

Sounds like something B-Weez would have tweeted* (I don't tweet, but I used to make a point of reading his... before he became a Dodger, of course). * Oh, and you're welcome!

Not to be a pain in the neck spelling policeman here, but I think the guy has earned the right to have his name spelled correctly. It's Bumgarner. Or, just "Mad Bum" to Giants fans. What a great series. I hadn't posted here previously because I don't like predictions and I get all superstitious about talking, but I've been reading along. Whoever said game 7 was going to be a nail-biter sure had it right. I already knew what we had with Mad Bum, the Panda, Hunter Pence, Bochy, etc (and I sure expected more from Posey!), but the biggest surprise and delight came from watching Joe Panik, who began the year with... Fresno!! That diving grab and glove-flip to Crawford to start a big double play was huge, and WP Jeremy Affeldt suggested that it was the biggest factor (other than Bumgarner's dominating save) in setting up the win, particularly for what it did to relieve pressure on the pitching staff. I was not just impressed by the Royals players, but also by Ned Yost, and their fans. Great club, and much class.

Good call. I feel the same, and probably forgot to mention it since I was focused on Griffin's association with Jaws.

Am I the only one who's been wondering where brownie has been? Looks like he hasn't posted for almost three weeks. Happy birthday, sir. Hope you are well!

Gotta say, I don't agree with Smith/Burrell. I think together they were pretty much the same as apart. And Smith couldn't have made an album like 'Up the street, round the corner, down the block', which is about my favourite Burrell. But they DID go together very well. Also Jaws and Griff... I have a marked preference for the two of them together over Griff alone, in general, but I think it's because Jaws is there There's a lot of Griff I like a lot, like 'Grab this', 'Big soul band', 'Soul groove' and 'Bush dance', but I think it may be who's with him, too. Often, he sounds a bit too much like a jazz musician for me. (A distinctly one-sided view, of course ) MG Who gives a fuck?

Nice list. KD and Joe occurred to me also.

Jimmy Smith and Kenny Burrell Lockjaw Davis and Johnny Griffin Paul Desmond and Ed Bickert Robert Cray and Curtis Salgado Charlie Baty and Rick Estrin

Barry, again I think more "density" would be preferable. There are so many spaces in this puzzle which are contained in only one word (or word sequence), and don't intersect other words, which makes it difficult to gain any momentum even when you find solutions. Hopefully that makes sense. In terms of doing the puzzle without going to too much trouble (saving images and printing and scanning, etc), I just left the puzzle image and clues on my desktop and opened a text document in which I typed out the across and down clues. With puzzles that are spread out like these (not "dense" like a NY Times crossword, with blocks of spaces), it's not difficult to see where letters from solved words belong in the intersecting word that you're trying to solve. I just typed them out, using dashes for the unsolved letters (e.g., ---d-e when I was trying to solve "bridge" in the first puzzle). All I've got so far is "MaxRoach"...

I had the same reaction. Maybe if we make it a group effort...

Ahhhh. I'd convinced myself that the penultimate letter had to be an "L".

2 down ("channel") has me stumped, but I have guesses for the rest... Across: 1. Bonano 6. Jordan 7. salt ? 9. tritone 10. Lockjaw 12. Gates 13. hip 14. Pollack 16. waltz 17. cool ? 18. Groove Down: 1. Birks 2. ---d-e ? 3. Fountain 4. Most 5. StanleyGetz 6. JuttaHipp 8. Airegin 11. Wallace 15. Crow I don't do a lot of crosswords, but I do have some experience with them. In general, I don't think opposites are given as clues (e.g., "warm" for "cool"). One thing that would make it less ambiguous (although it would be more complicated and difficult) would be to make the puzzle more dense, with more overlapping letters in blocks and such. Perhaps a tall order, though. This was fun, thank you for doing it.