Posts Tagged ‘chicago’

Vince carter crazy dunk off the backboard

March 10th, 2010

Toronto Raptors alley oop

WFLD Channel 32 – Creature Feature (Excerpt of Open, 1979?)

March 5th, 2010

Blink, and you’ll miss it! Here is an extreme rarity – a painfully small excerpt from the opening of WFLD Channel 32’s Creature Feature program. This was the program that was replaced by Son of Svengoolie in Summer of 1979. That would date this clip to at least before that time. If you pause the video at the right spot you can see a fairly clear shot of the opening title. You can make out a smokey graveyard type atmosphere with a black crow or raven perched on a tree branch to the right and a coffin in the foreground. On top of this is the Creature Feature logo and WFLD TV, along with the older, Kaiser Broadcasting style “32″ logo. No idea what the music was for wfld’s Creature Feature. You can hear an extremely small snippet of it in this clip and the other one. If anyone remembers what the music was, feel free to comment. Too bad the person that recorded this Universal movie, “The Black Cat” was so dilligent in removing the commercial breaks – because this is the only footage currently known to exist of wfld’s Creature Feature opening. :-( If you ever find any more, let me know. ;-) Visit – www.fuzzymemories.TV The Museum of Classic Chicago Television – for more fun!

Thief (1981) Part 4

March 1st, 2010

Part 4 of Thief from 1981. Frank finally gets to keep his dinner-date with the lady at the restaurant he hit on back in part 2. Unfortunately, Franks work made him late, which leads to a really bad first impression for Jessie. So Frank takes her somewhere to have a serious sit-down, where they both share their backgrounds as ex-cons. Then Frank begins to tell an important story about his early years in jail. Here are some liner notes from the DVD box, which you wont find on Wikipedia or anywhere else that I can find. They supposedly come from the press release for the film: Although best known today for such uniquely American fare as Miami Vice TV series, The Last of the Mohicans, and Heat, Chicago-native Michael Mann began his filmmaking career in England as a director of commercials and documentaries. After spend 7 years in England, Mann returned to the US, where he began writing for TV shows (Starsky and Hutch, Police Story, Vega$). In 1979, he helmed the TV movie The Jericho Mile, for which he received a DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Specials. Thief marked Manns first feature film project. Manns screenplay is loosely based on the novel The Home Invaders, a veritable textbook on robbery, written by Frank Hohimer. The author, a real-life cat burglar, was still in prison at the time the film was being made.

Philadelphia 76ers – Sacramento Kings Recap Highlights

February 26th, 2010

Allen Iverson scores 42Pts vs the Kings away

NBA Chess

February 23rd, 2010

The best NBA players are playing chess with each other an i won