TV CONFIDENTIAL

Your Mental Sorbet: Desperate Housewives - Susan Locked Out Of Her House Naked

Tony Figueroa — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Here is another "Mental Sorbet" that we could use to momentarily forget about those things that leave a bad taste in our mouths.

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Tony Figueroa

Actor Edward Faulkner, Plus Girls Talk: Next on TVC

TV Confidential — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Actor Edward Faulkner, Plus Girls Talk: Next on TVC

Actor, director and voiceover artist Edward Faulkner will join us on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing May 16-22 at the following times and venues:

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Wednesday 5/16
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Thursday 5/17
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Friday 5/18
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Sunday 5/20
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Monday 5/21
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Monday 5/21
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Tuesday 5/22
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Edward Faulkner’s career in film and television includes roles in thirty motion pictures, including Tickle Me and G.I. Blues (with Elvis Presley), The Shakiest Gun in the West (with Don Knotts), The Ballad of Josie (with Doris Day), Something Big (with Dean Martin), and McLintock!, Hellfighters and The Green Berets (all with John Wayne). He has also appeared in more than 250 television shows, including such classics as Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, Have Gun, Will Travel, The Odd Couple, The Virginian, Dragnet and Gilligan’s Island. Ed has a lot of great stories about working alongside such stars as David Janssen, Richard Boone and John Wayne, and he’ll share a few of those memories with us when he joins us in our second hour.

Edward Faulkner will be appearing at the Memphis Film Festival in Olive Branch, Mississippi on May 31 thru June 2, 2012. For more information, go to MemphisFilmFestival.com. He will also appearing at the annual Western Legends Round-Up in Kanab, Utah on August 16-18, 2012 (www.westernlegendsroundup.com), as well as Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri on Saturday, Sept. 15 (www.silverdollarcity.com).

And speaking of round-ups, Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen will join us in our first hour as we round up the list of series that were canceled last week by the broadcast networks, as well as those that the networks renewed. Will your favorite show be coming back next season? If not, we’ll tell you why. We’ll also weigh in on a few shows that recently premiered on network and cable, including the controversial HBO series, Girls.

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This Week in Television History: May 2012 PART II

Tony Figueroa — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT

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As always, the further we go back in Hollywood history, the more that fact and legend become intertwined. It's hard to say where the truth really lies.

May 19, 1992 Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the Murphy Brown character for "ignoring the importance of fathers by birthing a child alone".

In the show's 1991–1992 season, Murphy became pregnant. When her baby's father (ex-husband and current underground radical Jake Lowenstein) expressed his unwillingness to give up his own lifestyle to be a parent, Murphy chose to have the child and raise it alone. Another major fiction-reality blending came at Murphy's baby shower: the invited guests were journalists Katie Couric, Joan Lunden, Paula Zahn, Mary Alice Williams and Faith Daniels, who treated the fictional Murphy and Corky as friends and peers.

At the point where she was about to give birth, she had stated that "several people do not want me to have the baby. Pat Robertson; Phyllis Schlafly; half of Utah!" Right after giving birth to her son, Avery, Murphy sang the song "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by Aretha Franklin. This storyline made the show a subject of political controversy during the 1992 American presidential campaign. On May 19, 1992, then Vice President Dan Quayle spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. During his speech,^[5] he criticized the Murphy Brown character for "ignoring the importance of fathers by birthing a child alone".

Quayle's remarks caused a public discussion on family values, culminating in the 1992–93 season premiere, "You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato", where the television characters reacted to Quayle's comments and produced a special episode of FYI showcasing and celebrating the diversity of the modern American family. Because Quayle's actual speech made little reference to Murphy Brown's fictional nature (other than the use of the word character), the show was able to use actual footage from his speech to make it appear that, within the fictional world of the show, Quayle was referring to Murphy Brown personally, rather than to the fictional character. At the end, Brown helps organize a special edition of FYI focusing on different kinds of families then arranges a retaliatory prank in which a truckload of potatoes is dumped in front of Quayle's residence, while a disc jockey commenting on the incident notes the Vice President should be glad people were not making fun of him for misspelling "fertilizer", (On June 15, 1992, at a spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, Quayle had erroneously corrected an elementary school student's spelling of "potato" to "potatoe".) When Candice Bergen won another Emmy that year, she thanked Dan Quayle. The feud was cited by E! as #81 on its list of "101 Reasons the '90s Ruled."^[10]

In 2002, Bergen said in an interview that she personally agreed with much of Quayle's speech, calling it "a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable" and adding that "nobody agreed with that more than I did."

Quayle would eventually display a sense of humor about the incident—after the controversy died down, he appeared for an interview on an independent Los Angeles TV station and for his final question was asked what his favorite TV show was. He responded with "Murphy Brown—Not!" The station would later use the clip of Quayle's response to promote its showing of Murphy Brown re-runs in syndication.

To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".

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Tony Figueroa