And nothing about Sprinkles in Beverly Hills!?

And calling Jason Lee by his character's name in another movie is kind of another joke from the movie Mall Rats where one of the characters calls Shannon Doherty by the name of her character in Beverly Hills 90210 when he's confused.

Is that Beverly DeAngelo?

The woman in this episode is Donna Douglas. She played "Elly May" in the Beverly Hillbillies.

beverly hills cop theme.

no need to get all alarmist there, joe! co2 is actually being used in studies as a potential treatment for sleep apnea! co2 is virtually harmless ... as anyone knows, a pound of dry ice sublimates into 8.3 cubic feet of co2 ... those boys used no where near one pound of dry ice.

further more ... carbon dioxide pellets when submerged in ethanol-water solution undergo rapid sublimation, releasing gaseous mixture of aerosolized ethanol with the sublimated co2 acting as a submersion medium. Subsequent inhalation results in diffusion across vascular membrane and direct uptake of the ethanol.

oh no .... we better all stop drinking carbonated bevers such as soda and beer ... sparkling wine .... even pop rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Notice Brigitte Nielsen at :58. She and Sylvester Stallone divorced in 1987. Folks may remember her best from "Red Sonja," "Cobra" and "Beverly Hills Cop II."

For more see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Nielsen

ok ... which ones were the hatfields and which ones were the mccoys?!?!?

oh ... and shouldn't this video have involved a few alcoholic bevers somewhere along the line!?!

he gave me this look like "talk to me and I'll rip your head off and sing Maggie May down your neck"
Fantastic.

Wow, some of you folks have some good celebrity sighting stories.

I've run into "Chocolate Bear" from Scrubs at the Santa Monica promenade, Jimmy Kimmel at the Beverly Center, walked around a shirt store at the Venetian hotel in Vegas with Howie Mandel, unbeknownst to him, (who was with a woman in a handicap-style electric scooter for some reason), and I've seen Kobe Bryant with his attractive wife on two different occasions, once at Disneyland and another time at a mall shopping for baby furniture. The only celebrity I've ever actually approached was a local news reporter, who was quite friendly; I always feel like I'd be bothering people who'd rather be left alone and then later regret not having chatted with them.

I recently got a 300mm lens for my camera and my wife and I plan to hit well-known celebrity spots in Hollywood to get first-person photos like amateur paparazzi (though just for the fun of it, of course).

Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits and The Beverly Hillbillies theme song.

Mark Knopfler, of Dire Straits, recorded a guitar part for the song, replicating his parts from the original.

- Wikipedia

long story, but i will *try* to make it short ...

i used to work at this greasy-spoon hamburger joint (just a small shack on the side of the road). it has been in business for over 60yrs and hires high schoolers during the season. clamps (aptly named after the original owners) is on the way to a more affluent part of the scenic country life (in connecticut) and rakes in the business.

one weekday afternoon a red head stops with her young son and nanny in tow. she looks sooooooooooooo familiar, so i give her 'that look' and say, "can i ask you a question?" she quickly responds with, "yes, i am!" i laugh and told her that i had no clue who she was. she replied, "i guess it will remain a mystery" we laughed some more and then she took her food and went to sit down at a picnic table.

i figured she someone in one of the many soap operas i watched at the time ... i had my own apartment senior year and had basic cable (12 channels), so it was soap operas, sitcoms, and my boyfriend's STNG video tape collection.

she came back to get an ice cream for her son and i couldn't resist, "can you just you just tell me your name?" she obliged with, "gates mcfadden" i shrugged and she just smiled and walked away.

moments later it hit me!!!! dr beverly crusher from the star trek enterprise ... i nearly bolted out the door for her autograph before being stopped by the owner. he told me one of the reasons they are so popular is because they treat celebrities like 'normal' people! UGH!!!!

she was walking to her car to leave and i yelled, " goodbye dr beverly crusher!!" she laughed and waved!

that was my most memorable meeting but there have been others that i've just seen around my hometown. i've spoken to kyra sedgewick, oscar de la renta, gloria vanderbilt, the kissingers, dustin hoffman, mia farrow, michael bolton ... i worked for the local answering service in high school so they REALLY weren't talking to me ... more like leaving a message for a client!!! i used to keep their phone numbers ... like i'd EVER call one of them!!! hahahahaha

i've invited adam sandler over for a 'home cooked meal' he filmed mr deed's in my hometown and i met him on the green (center part of town). i had nothing on me but my checkbook so i had him sign that and then gave him a deposit slip and circled my name and addy!!! *slaps forehead* winona ryder is beautiful in person!

anyway .... i said i would try to make it short, but i'm a girl and it didn't work! so there ya go ...

Stellar, absolutely stellar.

The commentary is great - turns out this is the "special" version - "Hall of the Mountain King" wasn't the version they ran on TV, but it's so much better.

Two interesting comments from that slate article:

1.
"Side note: I was thinking about the fact that Monica Lewinsky's famous blue dress came from the Gap. That was back in the mid-1990s—rosier days for the company. Can you imagine a White House intern now—a well-off woman from Beverly Hills who considers herself fashion-forward—buying a dress from the Gap? I can't. Maybe Banana Republic. … It's just a sign of how badly things have gone for the brand: They can't even get world leaders to ejaculate on their clothes anymore."

2.
"Instead of running the "Dust" spot in just a couple of markets, and tying it exclusively to the remodeling effort, Gap should have used this ad as the centerpiece of a national campaign. Directed by Spike Jonze (the man behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation), the spot is hilariously funny. I love the way it takes its time at first, allowing the petty transgressions to mount. Only after a woman snaps a hanger, with an explosion of plastic shards, does the camera zoom in frenetically and signal that all hell is about to break loose. From here, it's a wild romp, wonderfully executed.

The spot has been linked to all over the Web—evidence of how entertaining it is. And it would have been the perfect solution to the Gap's brand problem: Some self-deprecating humor, mixed with an ingenious visual metaphor. They wouldn't need to change a single word in that tag line. Alas, a spokesperson says they have no plans to run the spot in the future.

I just can't understand spending all that money on a big-name director, and a big-budget shoot, and then frittering the results away on such a limited purpose. Did Gap not see the possibilities? Were they too scared to go for broke? Or are they waiting on designs for some more appealing clothes before they brag about a new beginning? (I suppose they might not feel comfortable selling a revamped brand before they revamp the brand.)"

I wonder how Eddie Murphy feels now his Beverly Hills Cop theme is associated with Crazy frog... ;-)

diggin through the dusties.
just the facts from youtube: "Nancy Sinatra, Frankie Avalon, & Lola Falana perform a medley of current TV theme songs on the Hullabaloo television show on December 6, 1965.

The following songs are included: Hullabaloo, Bonanza, Bewitched, The Andy Griffith Show, "Moon River", Beverly Hillbillies, "Everybody Loves Somebody", Flipper, Branded, The Flintstones, Action, & Candid Camera"

n.b. they get the Andy Griffith theme wrong, in that it's actually a song called "Down by the fishing hole" (but don't forget your fishing pole)....

Read the full article, reprinted from WSJ
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06215/710851-115.stm

...."In the video, Mr. Gore appears as a sinister figure who brainwashes penguins and bores movie audiences by blaming the Mideast crisis and starlet Lindsay Lohan's shrinking waist size on global warming. Like other videos on the popular YouTube site, it has a home-made, humorous quality. The video's maker is listed as "Toutsmith," a 29-year-old who identifies himself as being from Beverly Hills in an Internet profile.

In an email exchange with The Wall Street Journal, Toutsmith didn't answer when asked who he was or why he made the video, which has just over 59,000 views on YouTube. However, computer routing information contained in an email sent from Toutsmith's Yahoo account indicate it didn't come from an amateur working out of his basement.

Instead, the email originated from a computer registered to DCI Group, a Washington, D.C., public relations and lobbying firm whose clients include oil company Exxon Mobil Corp."...