Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

On The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Murray Slaughter's (Gavin MacLeod) daughter was played by a young Helen Hunt.

 Come on, it's not that far...

 I love that the kid at the far right wrote  "Six o'clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream/ I was kissing Valentino, by a crystal blue Italian stream."

Watched an interview with some politician. In front of the obligatory bookcase. Eclectic or hastily cobbled together. Almost hidden over his shoulder? The Books of Wonder edition of Tik Tok of Oz!

 Julianna Margulies' father was the advertising guy who wrote "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Oh what a relief it is!"

"We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them."   John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

Broadway & 112th Monk's Diner on Seinfeld Inspiration for Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega.

Imagining a production of Henry V in which the chorus is Falstaff. The voices are vastly different of course, but momentarily interesting.

 

 This guy: Is now this guy: Lucas Babin, Spider in School of Rock,  is now District Attorney of Tyler County, Texas.

I can never decide between Zachinni v. Scripps-Howard or Sid & Marty Krofft v. McDonald's. The first, the ground-breaking Personality Rights decision stemming from a lawsuit brought against the media corporation Scripps-Howard by human cannonball Hugo Zachinni. The court upheld the position that the corporation's first and fourteenth amendment rights did not supersede the plaintiff's ownership of his act. This ruling later proved invaluable to such titans of the arts as Vanna White. The second case, Krofft v. McDonald's, went deeper into the Arts, simultaneously affecting the world of Saturday morning children's programming and that ot fast food advertising. An agency, bidding on a McDonald's contract, approached the Kroffts with an idea to use the characters from HR Pufnstuff to promote the fast food giant. After many meetings with the Kroffts and their creatives, the firm announced that the deal had fallen through. In fact, the firm had won the contract an...

 The lyrics to the song Georgy Girl were written by actor Jim Dale, the star of Barnum on Broadway, countless Carry On films, and Pete's Dragon J

 Audra Lindley and James Whitmore were married.

The phrase "Release the Kraken" comes from the film Clash of the Titans (1981; remade in 2010), a retelling of Greek mythology. The films tell the story of Perseus, exiled by the king of Argos. Perseus' father, Zeus, retaliates by sending the Kraken to destroy Argos. Thing is the Kraken doesn't exist in Greek mythology. The creature is Scandinavian. Lives off the coast of Norway.