tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post8478621850853577555..comments2023-11-25T09:34:32.294-08:00Comments on It Couldn't Happen Here...: Mark Dawidziak on FirefallJohn Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15830334036783163702noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post-45511807556371096762018-07-19T13:39:23.896-07:002018-07-19T13:39:23.896-07:00I liked Bier from the Mod Squad Pilot. Had no clue...I liked Bier from the Mod Squad Pilot. Had no clue he was on the Twilight Zone. Have to watch it!Moviemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05181382859071866416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post-75407397408697843322016-07-11T15:54:41.566-07:002016-07-11T15:54:41.566-07:00This is so beautifully written... It's poetica...This is so beautifully written... It's poetical, sweet and desperate. I love it!<br />MarceloAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post-5126289178988885882012-01-13T11:22:20.224-08:002012-01-13T11:22:20.224-08:00And don't even start me on ampersands!
I had a...And don't even start me on ampersands!<br />I had an editor at the Akron Beacon Journal who insisted that on-screen type decided everything -- so our style was always to the "p.i." down in "Magnum, p.i." (even though we were the only newspaper on the planet to do so). But even so, Matthew, I agree that on-screen is a good rule of thumb.Mark Dawidziakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17535425789954062022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post-21677576329112062592012-01-13T08:57:25.441-08:002012-01-13T08:57:25.441-08:00Echoing Doug K, if I hadn't forced myself to f...Echoing Doug K, if I hadn't forced myself to focus so meticulously on all pertinent personnel for RICHARD MATHESON ON SCREEN, I would never have made the Beir Connection myself. His appearance in "Death Ship," THE ODD COUPLE and NIGHT STALKER certainly varies.<br /><br />As for the burning (ha ha) title debate, my rule of thumb--despite the compelling arguments to the contrary marshaled by Mark--is to give on-screen credits precedence, unless (as in so many Dan Curtis productions) they contain obvious errors.Matthew Bradleyhttp://bradleyonfilm.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post-37547995800415974352012-01-12T16:33:26.721-08:002012-01-12T16:33:26.721-08:00Carol Ann was also in a SEINFELD episode as one of...Carol Ann was also in a SEINFELD episode as one of George's dates (a blind date, maybe?).Doug Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10796333627043218622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post-11715484870290887372012-01-12T16:16:30.093-08:002012-01-12T16:16:30.093-08:00A Random Kolchak Rumination That Fits Here as Well...A Random Kolchak Rumination That Fits Here as Well as Anywhere ...<br /><br />Kolchak knows he's an anachronism — and he doesn't care. Our Chandleresque, bowlegged tarnished knight keeps the Mustang he probably bought new during a fat period in '66, prefers baseball and Duke Ellington, develops his own film (sometimes), types on a manual beast when electrics were becoming the stylish office rage. When agitated he will usually cite a World War 2 reference — Nazis, an understanding of Chinese food that doesn't go beyond chow mein, or calling a woman a "dumb broad" under stress. He seems automatically mistrustful of things outside his own White American Male Reality, but understands how to fight the good fight the way our boys did in the Euro and Pacific Theaters. He has a healthy disdain for any sort of uppity pretension, but his standards are pretty low to begin with — another characteristic of the postwar generation, of which he is a member, being born in the 1920s. His childhood saw the Depression, and the by the time he was a teenager, he was ripe to enlist for the Big Conflict (when a cop asks if he's ever "been around war" and knows the smell of death, Kolchak says, "yeah, several"). He knows he's becoming obsolete in his own lifetime; pocket calculators were brand new in the late 1960s. Seersucker was the summerwear of choice for lowbudgeters until college students made a vogue out of it in the 1920s — it's easily washed and in fact, it was the fabric of choice for nurse's uniforms during WW2. The straw hat was once a rakish accessory, the sort of thing you wore if you planned on rowing your girlfriend around a lake during a summer barbeque (although you'd probably be wearing sandals). Given the wear and tear on his wardrobe, I've always envisioned Carl as having a closet full of these things, identical and off the rack. He found his look and stuck with it. The Sixties must have hit him like an avalanche.DJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post-31801926470472879422012-01-12T15:55:16.685-08:002012-01-12T15:55:16.685-08:00Mrs. Wolowitz! How cool is that.Mrs. Wolowitz! How cool is that.John Scolerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15830334036783163702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post-14967538540051387272012-01-12T15:51:33.997-08:002012-01-12T15:51:33.997-08:00Carol Ann is such good people. One of my favorite ...Carol Ann is such good people. One of my favorite of her post-"Kolchak" credits is as the grief-carried "casket climber," hysterical Pauline Romano, in "The Foot," a 2001 episode of HBO's "Six Feet Under." You can hear her as the voice of Howard's mother, Mrs. Wolowitz, on CBS' "The Big Bang Theory." Since the 1997 publication of "The Night Stalker Companion," she has appeared in episodes of "Just Shoot Me," "Becker," "The King of Queens," "The Drew Carey Show," "That '70s Show," "Ugly Betty," "Grey's Anatomy" and "CSI: NY," to name a few. How did David Chase miss her for "The Sopranos"?Mark Dawidziakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17535425789954062022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post-15245723492245440912012-01-12T14:17:49.186-08:002012-01-12T14:17:49.186-08:00Firefall
Fire fall
Fire Fall
I'm going to nee...Firefall<br />Fire fall<br />Fire Fall<br /><br />I'm going to need some time to make a decision.Peter Enfantinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317575598411394944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061398142362448372.post-36049633396724078332012-01-12T13:56:11.663-08:002012-01-12T13:56:11.663-08:00Hey Mark, in your book, you make Firefall two word...Hey Mark, in your book, you make Firefall two words, and I've always - <br /><br />Kidding! <br /><br />Man, I really love these quotes you're throwing at us directly from the stars and writers of the show. So great.<br /><br />Let me just admit that after all these years, I had NO idea that the actor who played Ryder Bond was the same guy from The Twilight Zone, The Odd Couple, and all the rest. No clue at all. I love that sort of revelation ( I know him from those other credits, but I never put it together).Doug Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10796333627043218622noreply@blogger.com