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So our friends over at TV Week have been posting this TV commercial for about 10 days or more now and we kept watching and watching and watching.  On YouTube it’s titled “The Most Sexist Ad of All Time” but maybe I’m missing something here because to me this is about safety rather than being sexist.

Now I know I may take a bit of heat from women on this but wait a minute.  This was aired sometime after 1967 when, well I have to say it, men were truly sexist.  I mean let’s be real, back then it was like Mad Men on AMC.  Ad agencies were run strictly by men, owned by men, men were in all top positions throughout these companies as most women were home taking care of the house and kids.

So what else would you expect.  After watching though, isn’t it pretty much real?  The Goodyear Polyglas tire was about keeping people safe but from an advertising standpoint it’s all about fear.  About making women fearful of being on the road at night by themselves and getting men to think about what could happen to them if their automobiles fail.  And getting a flat tire is a regular occurrence these days with all of the crap on the street of most major cities.

I think it’s a pretty darn good commercial!

Now maybe I watch too much Criminal Minds.  Or that other show Crime Scene Investigation.  But in Criminal Minds there’s always a car breaking down with a woman or women inside, taken hostage and then ending up chopped in to several missing pieces and their bodies dumped in a ditch.  And usually the team of Behavioral Analysis Unit members don’t get pulled in to something unless there are multiple bodies found, right?

So wouldn’t you want your wife, daughter, girlfriend or ex-wife to have a new set of Goodyear Polyglas tires?  OK maybe not your ex-wife that you’re working a second gig to keep up support payments but you as a man surely want the women around you to be safe.  The last thing you want is Hotch from the BAU on Criminal Minds doing an interview with you as you have filed a missing report on some woman  that’s missing.

There’s always a missing woman.  Usually some blond that met some scum on Match.com and I have to spend my mornings watching the second half hour of the Today Show on NBC because some woman is missing.  So go out and buy, even your ex-wife a damn set of Goodyear Polyglas tires.

Please.

So there you have it.  Not a sexist ad but a real true ad focused on fear.  Bet they sold a lot of Goodyear Polyglas tires back in 1967.  But watch the ad and judge for yourself.   You’re really gonna love the music.

Rick Thomas

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And if you think anyone from CBS or from the Dr. Phil show is going to respond to the guilty verdict of the so-called ‘hot sauce’ mom well don’t hold your breath.  Why?  Because you can bet there will be some future litigation coming toward someone responsible for this show real soon.  To a courtroom near you, Dr. Phil!

So if you’ve been living under a rock or are single with no kids, under the age of 25 with no significant care in the world, you may not have heard this story.  A woman from Alaska, who could see Russia from her back window because she adopted a child and/or other children from that country, was convicted rightly for child abuse.  As a form of punishment, this maggot of a mother poured hot sauce down the throat of her seven year old son.

Hell I just remember having to go and get a belt so my parents could whack me.  But hot sauce?

What did this kid do?  No he didn’t burn down the house, pull a gun on maggot mom nor did he strangle to death any one in his family unit.  He did the unthinkable think that any child can ever do, the worst action ever which to her deserved the hot sauce down the throat treatment.

He lied.

BREAKING NEWS!!! A seven year old child lied.  Get me my Lawry’s Hot Sauce, big bottle please!

Not only that she threw him in a cold shower as punishment as well.

Now here’s how she got caught.  A producer for the Dr. Phil show asked her to send them a videotape of her using this type of penalty against her seven year old son.  So what does maggot mom do?  She says “Sure no problem, Miss Producer of the Dr. Phil Show” and proceeds to rolled tape on her activity abusing her son.

Step in a few prosecutors and a few Russians  in their adoption world then comes all hell.  She’s arrested, charged, put through a trial and  yesterday convicted facing up to one year in prison and $10,000 in fines.

What did she have, Casey Anthony’s attorneys working for her?

She told Dr. Phil that the boy was “the biggest stress in my life.”  No I think your conviction is well on its way to becoming the biggest stress in your life, you maggot of a mother.

Oh and I purposely don’t give you her name because maggot mom is about as high a level of identity she deserves.

Rick Thomas

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This guy was an awesome writer.  An awesome performer.  He and his wife had a club in New York that I went to one night to see an old school R & B group The Main Ingredient. Cuba Gooding, Sr. was a member of that singing trio?  Or were there four of them?  Yeah it was three but a few or more past members.

The Main Ingredient.  But this story is about the great Nick Ashford.  Part of the incredible duo of Ashford and Simpson, which included his wife Valerie Simpson.  The music they made was just amazing.  Yes a blast from the past again.

Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, "Ashford and Simpson"

When you watch the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and you see a story about the passing of Nick Ashford you know you’re at the top of your musical game.  And you are when you get writing credits from Amy Winehouse…OK so maybe that’s not big with her demise.  But Motown greats like Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Hand and I’m Every Woman by Chaka Khan.  And then he and his wife Valerie’s Solid or the dance monster hit Found a Cure.

Nick Ashford, excuse my French, was the snap.  You know what I mean.  I remember back in my old mobile deejay days the instrumental we played at weddings when announcing the bride and groom along with the full wedding party.  Most don’t remember Bourgie Bourgie.

Nick Ashford passed away today at the age of 70 from throat cancer.

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You know we get earthquakes on a regular basis here in California.  But that’s standard.  An earthquake happens, we see the meter that shows us its strength, they interview those geeks at the earthquake headquarters at some college out here and we go on with our lives saying “whew” as we have cheated death again.

KC and the Sunshine Band "Shake Your Booty"

Today we have Virginia.  Washington, DC.  New York City and further points north with an earthquake they say was a 5.8 deal, one of the biggest in almost 70 years which shook the east coast to the core.  My brother was in a restaurant in Washington when it happened.  I have to laugh my rear off because he always said to me he would not move to any place in California because he was not in to earthquakes.

Welcome to the party pal.

The coverage even here in Los Angeles was at it best.  Since we have a lot of earthquakes here in Cali a lot of local TV stations and networks in Washington were getting a lesson in the end of the damn world from our local peeps.  Yeah people in New York crowded the streets, the highways, the buses and trains to go home in personal fear that we live here in Los Angeles every day.  Get this.  We’re so used to this in southern California that after a certain period of time living in this area you just get used to having the ground or your building shake for a short blip and you go on with your life.

But keep watching the local and network news.  It’s absolutely fascinating to chat with people back east.  Once again welcome to the party pal.

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Oh this could be one of those break-ups for the legal record books.  Because the only people that are gonna win in this potential battle are going to be the lawyers.  Two major names in the TV and film business along with their two minor kids making some serious gap as well will lead to nothing more than a legal mess.

In Touch Weekly is reporting that TV and film power couple Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are about to call it quits.  And that’s their marriage which has been in place for the last 13 years.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith

And guess what?  It’s “completely false” according to a statement released by the couple after In Touch Weekly has proved to be totally out of touch.  “Although we are reluctant to respond to these types of press reports, the rumors circulating about our relationship are completely false.”

That from the at this point the clearly more reliable On The Red Carpet.

Well at least this rumor is false.  If not I would not want to be anywhere near singer/actor Marc Anthony who just finished up a set of shows on Jada’s TNT drama HawthoRNe.  He and his former flame Jennifer Lopez announced the end to their marriage recently and hopefully the bug hasn’t spread to Jada’s neighborhood.

Not to pick on In Touch Weekly but where there’s smoke there’s fire.

Rick Thomas

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Well it happened, finally after so much hype and sizzle that would make most think this was a royal wedding.  Well this was a royal wedding, wasn’t it?  For those of us in the blog world this is a big deal.  The wedding of television reality star Kim Kardashian and New Jersey Nets pro basketball player Kris Humphries.

The Saturday event was covered by CNN, CBS and many other news outlets were there.  E! had the exclusive rights to film video from the wedding which of course will be shown on the network and on their web-site.  And you can expect a ton of coverage on all of the entertainment news shows as well.

E!’s got the only content available and they will also be planning a four hour special on the wedding that will run sometime in September or October.  But I gotta tell you judging from the like and dislikes on the E! video you see below E! might think twice about some sort of special.  Seems most of us are done with any more follow-up on this and we’re getting close to who cares status on this story.

So get ready.  It’s a slow news week in the entertainment business because it’s August.  And the Kardashian media machine is up and running.  Everywhere you turn this week it will be “all Kardashian all the time” on television.  We’re gonna link you over to the Hollywood Reporter story about the media mayhem.

Enjoy.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kim-kardashian-wedding-how-media-225750

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Well I don’t know about you but I’m done seeing Dave Navarro in those CitiBank commercials that have been running like crazy all over television.  You know the one with ‘Sam’ who wanted to go to guitar or rock & roll camp with his CitiBank card points.  And his wife give it to him as a gift?  How can you miss this commercial, right?  Then at the end, Dave Navarro from Jane ‘s Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers comes on toward the end, does a guitar rant and tells ‘Sam’ to do the same thing.  Then Sam looks at the guitar like a deer in the headlights.

Dave Navarro from 'Jane's Addiction'

Well wait, there’s gonna be more with Dave Navarro and not a lot of ‘Sam’ thank goodness because I’m tired of that commercial.  The tattooed guitarist from Jane’s Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers is getting a Spike TV reality show called Inkmaster, an eight episode run that he will host.  And the goal is to become the best tattoo artist that a reality show can find.

I really think this is one of the more creative concepts for male oriented Spike TV ever.

Navarro will be looking for people who can give the best first tattoo, add on to existing tattoo or the best of removing tattoos.   There will also be a panel of judges that will also include Navarro.

Jane’s Addiction recently dropped a new single Irresistible Force from the CD The Great Escape Artist.

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There’s finally an ending.  A happing ending that will be re-worked for probably the final part of a three arc documentary for one of the most lesser known sagas of three men who were teenagers and arrested for the murders of three cub scouts.  The West Memphis Three was a horrific story about the case that apparently railroaded three accused of the crime.

Johnny Depp and Keith Richards

Damian Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley were convicted of murdering three 8 year old cub scouts in the early 90′s and have been in prison since the but were released last week for time served after an ongoing effort to discredit the outcome of the original case.  With the support of HBO’s two previous documentaries and the likes of Johnny Depp, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Velez and Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, the case was reviewed over and over again prior to their release.

The next documentary is set to air on HBO in January.  Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September but last week’s release is taking the producers back to the editing room to put in the facts of last week’s release of the three who were wrongly convicted.

The three men who were teenagers at the time maintained their innocence since day one of their journey of arrest, conviction and jail time.  And that was the focus of the two prior documentaries Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations.

DNA testing done recently did not connect the three men to the murders.

Rick Thomas

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You know I always talk a bit about my days in radio.  And I keep up on it regularly with my other company in the radio promotions business though I moved in to the TV world as I could no longer continue to watch the decline of the radio industry.  Shows I’m getting old, right?

But a buddy of mine sent me this link to Entertainment Weekly and one of the more absolutely very cool pieces of content that any radio or even TV person would want to listen and really like.

The link below gives you 5 seconds of music’s blast from the past featuring all of the number 1 hits that were played on radio from 1956 to 1992.

How cool is that?

You’ll hear Dean Martin, Elvis Presley all the way through Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, the Culture Club, oh this is so fantastic for an old music guy.

The Doobie Brothers Performing Live In Concert

Memories in Margate?  Bet you’re wondering what that means, right?  Well there was this old school club down at the Jersey shore back east called Memories.  In Margate.  Put it all together and you have Memories in Margate, a summer oldies hangout owned by legendary Philly radio DJ Jerry Blavat.  Went there one time, to listen to some oldies.   What a blast.

So I leave you with some old school DJ liners.  Cause it’s a summer Sunday, the sun is shining in Cali and I’m listening to some of the world’s greatest music.  A blast from the past, some listen to remember, some listen to forget, sounds so nice gotta play it twice, the bad brotha on the music motha, there is no otha like this soul brotha and finally tall, tanned talented and terrific, the kinda guy that can satisfy!

But listen to the music in the words of the Doobie Brothers.

http://music-mix.ew.com/2011/02/23/every-no-1-song-ever/

Rick Thomas

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I haven’t seen the film yet.  But a buddy of mine took his wife to see The Help and said it was fantastic.  I won’t embarrass him by outing him on this blog but he said he was in tears at certain points of the big screen movie.  Now I know I will have to take a person of the other gender with me to see The Help because my buddy says my emotional outburst could lead to an interesting post movie evening and morning for me.

Cicely Tyson in 'The Help'

But The Help is in weekend two and was the number 2 grossing movie during its release a week ago.  And strangely enough it’s expected to be in 1st position for the amount of moviegoers seeing the film this weekend.  Which is a credit to the quality of the movie because very few releases open at number 2 the first weekend and jumped to number 1 on weekend two.

OK lots of numbers but The Help is no doubt headed for big time awards and some really solid TV performers are part of the amazing cast in the movie.

Allison Janney, who spent many years on the NBC drama The West Wing, plays Charlotte Phelan in The Help.  She was on that program for 7 years and 154 episodes playing CJ Cregg.  The West Wing was her biggest television exposure during her career.

The absolutely great Cicely Tyson has been doing television since the early 1960′s.  Doing mostly episodes hits with her last TV role in Law & Order: SVU, Ms, Tyson has one solid resume not only on television but also in the movies and the theater.  She plays Constantine Jefferson in The Help.

Aunjanue Ellis just finished up a recurring role on the CBS show The Mentalist as Agent Madeleine Hightower.  She was the big boss during that series search for the serial killer Red John and was fantastic in the 16 episodes she appeared in last season.

With such a fantastic cast in The Help which also includes Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen and Emma Stone you can’t have a better lineup of talent.  So I’d better get the tissues ready for a lot of tears and look forward to a great night and an even better morning.

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