Bear with me as I remember a friend, Lynn Stalmaster (93), who passed on Saturday. The greatest casting director in Hollywood history and first casting director to win an Oscar. Among his 68 movies such as Superman, Dragnet, Tootsie, In the Heat of the Night, Scorpio, Mommie Dearest, Coming Home, and a couple movies he put me in, Fast Break and Cheaper to Keep Her. Met Lynn at the 1978 NCAA Basketball Sweet 16 in Albuquerque, I was there covering for the N.Y. Post. Lynn rest in peace.
Weird TV Stuff: Three years ago Ariel Robinson won America’s worst cooks in America on the Food Channel. On Friday she was ordered held with out bail on homicide charges, stemming from the death of a 3 year old girl. Police say the girl was held under water. … N.Y. Governor Cuomo’s top adviser has come forward and admitted the Cuomo covered up. He forced elderly with covid to relocate to senior citizen homes and thus contaminating those residents and perhaps causing the death of 7,000. Now both parties are demanding his resignation and his CNN anchor brother Chris who won an Emmy for his phony coverage of phony false story has been told he must return that Emmy. … Top 5 shows on Friday #5 Blacklist, #4 Blue Bloods, #3 Magnum P.I., #2 MacGyver #1 Shark Tank. Odd how Tom Selleck is in Blue Bloods and was the original Magnum P.I.
Odds and Ends: Bieber will spend $30,000 getting his tattoos removed this year. … In Mexico, when you go to the grocery store you have to wear a mask, but there’s more. Your temperature is taken at the door and you’re wiped down with sanitizer before entertaining. … Burt Reynolds died 2 years ago, but was just buried last Friday. Which reminds me of Marlon Brando ripping Burt Reynolds. Google Brando rips Burt Reynolds for a laugh. … Can’t wait for the video game, Borderlands to be made into a movie starring Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Jamie Lee Curtis. I know I’ve mentioned the lap dance Jamie gave me when I was at KROQ, but I have mention it again.
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