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Mary Tyler Moore passed away this week

Re-watching her work on The Dick Van Dyke Show and the Mary Tyler Moore Show just reminded me...

How easy it was to fall in love with her.

How easy it was to fall in love with her all over again.

How talented and unique she really was.

I mean, look at the people and the characters she shared the screen with. Strong personalities all. And she stood out, not because a scene was written that way — but because she was MTM with an “Oooh Rob” or a warbling “Mister Grant” to accompany her perfect smile, tone and inflection.

What else made her special?

Well, this is something we could only talk about now... decades after her shows hit the airwaves. She is timeless. And what worked on the small screen then is still completely and totally relatable today.

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SEE: Mary Tyler Moore Passes Away

If something doesn’t feel right... like when you leave the house and plop your keys in the wrong pocket or you’re walking around trying to remember if you turned off the ceiling fan in the bathroom... it might be that MTM is gone.

Whether you realize it or not, she was an important part of your life — from The Dick Van Dyke Show to the Mary Tyler Moore Show to MTM Enterprises and all the shows that she produced to Ordinary People to Juvenile Diabetes and animals and all the causes she supported... there is no doubt that she will be missed — just like how Lou and Murray and Ted were going to miss Mary Richards. 

Something just doesn’t feel... right.

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HEAR: Grace Vanderwaal ‘The A-Team’

Reality TV is what it is but there are some good things that can come from it.

Here’s one

Grace Vanderwaal was the winner of America’s Got Talent... a generally tacky though somewhat entertaining show giving people with what they think is talent a chance to show case what they think they can do. 

But every once in a while, there is talent to be seen and heard.

And the minute amazing Grace took the stage, you knew that she was going to win the season. And she did.

Will she be the superstar of Taylor Swift-like proportions as Simon Cowell predicted? Possibly. I’m just glad to see and still hear that she is the real thing! 

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SEE: ‘Accepted’

This movie starring Justin Long could be writtren off as just another semi-teenage-comedy-pseudo-sex romp (minus the sex.) Fluff might be another way to describe it. But I have never felt that way about this film.

Quite the opposite really — I have always been somewhat inspired by ‘Accepted.’ And this scene, as contrived as you might think it is, is represenative of the idea that you can look at the work differently to get the things you want and need. 

As a matter fact, it is suggesting that you do have to tilt your head sideways a little to see things in a different light and to follow your dreams. 

Mister Gaines is right. Do we have to conform to the world that is presented to us or can we create our own universe and mold it to the way we want to live? 

I might not run off and start my own college tomorrow. But nothing is going to stop me from from making the changes I need to make today.

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SEE: Dan Ackroyd and Carrie Fisher Could Have Been Mister and Misses

This I didn’t know. 

And it seems... heartbreaking. 

I mean... sure... life seemed to work out for all but it seems like these two could have been made for each other. 

Funny how life happens.

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HEAR: Butch Trucks and The Allman Brothers Band

Drummer Butch Trucks passed away. Butch was one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band and he a big reason for the southern rock outfit’s big sound — two drummers.

Like a rhythm guitar fills in the sound, so did the big hard hitting Butch Trucks creating the big full sound of The Allman Brothers. Powerful.

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SEE: You’ve Got a Friend in Me

Funny how some things go viral... even if they have been floating around the internet for while. But now people are beginning to share. I don’t know. Maybe this is just something that the world needs right nowe in the midst of Trump turmoil and whatnot.

Introducing 3-year old Claire Ryann and her Dad singing Randy Newman’s ‘You Got a Friend in Me’ from “Toy Story.”

You can’t help but melt a little as they look at each other and she tilts her head just a little to the side. 

Too sweet?

Maybe.

But like I said, maybe this is just what the world needs right now. 

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HEAR: Nick Waterhouse ‘Holly’

I love discovering a new favourite artist and a new favourite song. And the winner this week is Nick Waterhouse.

Sometimes I get hung up trying to classify the music that I like to listen to... which is sad and a waste of your time and mine. 

You like what you like and that’s all that matters. 

There is something so uncool about this buy that he is ultimately very cool. A mix of jazz, lounge, r&b, soul and rock make up almost every song. Love the use of the stand up bass and the Hammond organ.

‘Holly’ is not his new album. He has an outstanding song he performs with Leon Bridges. But when I accidently happened upon “This is a Game,” I was hooked. 

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HEAR: Rick James ‘Super Freak’

This song just makes me happy. 

It is so right and yet not-so-much in so many ways. 

Timeless? Not sure. It certainly defines a time, that is certain. 

Innovative? Absolutely. Without Rick James, would there have been a MC Hammer et al? 

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HEAR: The Romantics “What I Like About You”

I just neded to hear music with handclaps. Don’t hate. 

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SEE: Remembering Miguel Ferrer

Actor Miguel Ferrer passed away this week. He was only 61.

Though his resume is impressive, (Jordans Crossing, NCIS: LA, Twin Peaks) I loved him as Bob Morton in Robocop.

This focus points out something interesting about Bob’s death scene — that even though he is definitely a bad guy, you actually sort of feel sorry for him when Red from That 70s Show blows him up. 

Now that’s acting.

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HEAR: Golden Earring ‘Twilight Zone’

I have been listening to this at work this week and the song is still stuck in my head. 

Incidentally, this song contains one of the greatest misunderstood lyrics of all time:

“...when the bullet hits the BONE...”

Not phone!

Hmm.

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SEE: Celebrity Celebrity Impressions

Growing up, there was no one better than Rich Little. He was my initiation into a long standing love of people impersonating people. And if you could do something with that impression other than just repeating lines from a character’s movie of show, even better.

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HEAR: The Greg Kihn Band ‘The Breakup Song”

This is what has been on repeat in my ears today as I write commercials about ski resorts and breakfast diners that apparently serve more than breakfast despite the fact that they have the workd ‘breakfast’ in their name. 

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SEE: Nick Lowe on Letterman

I’m on this late-seventies/early eighties guitar/pop/rock kick today. The list is extensive.Donnie Iris, Golden Earring, Greg Kihn, Tommy Tutone, The Kings, The Romantics, and Dave Edmonds et al.

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SEE: The Trailer for ‘Dark Night’

‘Just another vampire on the loose.’

Captivating images.  You have my attention.

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HEAR: Caro Diaro “Just Another Dreamer”

Sometimes you hear a song in a movie, TV show or trailer... and you need to hear more.