This week on SVENGOOLIE...

[Swithin]

Okay, so maybe the real reason I've always thought Macdonald Carey was "boring" was because he not only looked a lot like the father of all those Catholic kids who grew up across the street from me in Lawndale California and who was a pretty boring guy himself, but maybe also because HIS name was also Carey..."Corky Carey" in his case. Can't remember his actually given name, though.

Saaay, ya know and now that I THINK about it, I THINK I recall one of those Careys over there telling me that their father Corky was indeed related to Macdonald the actor and might've even been his brother. Yep, no kiddin'!

(...but hey, that was a long time ago now, and at THIS age of mine here, the mind is startin' to play little tricks on me now and then, ya know)

To take this segue even a little farther afield, many years ago I saw former NY Governor Hugh L. Carey (1919-2011) coming out of Neary's Pub/Restaurant on East 57th Street in Manhattan. I was very sorry to learn that Neary's closed last month, after 57 years. They had the best lima beans I ever had in my life, and a wonderful homey atmosphere presided over by Jimmy Neary.

https://www.nearys.com

I miss the Carnegie. As you know it was featured in several movies, including one most famously (see below).

My favorite delis were the ones in the Jewish neighbourhoods in the Bronx. The first one I visited in Manhattan was Katz's, to which my father took me when I was a kid.

My current favorite is the Second Avenue Deli, which is now nearer to Third Avenue. I had a bout of Covid in October 2022. Since I can't take Paxlovid, my doctor sent me for a Monoclonal Antibody infusion at the NYU Medical Center. I had my infusion, and the nurse said, since it was day five, and I had no fever, I was no longer contagious. So to treat myself, I went to the nearby Second Avenue Deli and took home a corned beef sandwich, potato salad, and chopped liver. When I got home, I realized I couldn't smell or taste the food! (Fortunately my senses returned in a couple of weeks.)

The NY Historic Society had a great exhibition last year.
https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/i ... ewish-deli


The Carnegie Hall scene from Broadway Danny Rose

[TikiSoo]

I miss the Carnegie. As you know it was featured in several movies, including one most famously (see below).

The Carnegie Hall scene from Broadway Danny Rose

Omigod- THIS group of all people should recognise that. Shame on you if you didn’t.

[Swithin]

I miss the Carnegie. As you know it was featured in several movies, including one most famously (see below).

The Carnegie Hall scene from Broadway Danny Rose

Omigod- THIS group of all people should recognise that. Shame on you if you didn’t.

Btw I mis-typed the caption for the photo. It's the Carnegie Deli scene from Broadway Danny Rose, not Carnegie Hall.

[ziggy6708a]

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Black Friday (1940) was on last night, one of the more disappointing Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi films. They don't share any scenes together and Lugosi's role is a small one, as a gangster.

Sven mentions the rumor about Lugosi being hypnotized for his death scene in the film. His character is locked in a closet and suffocates to death, he was supposedly made to think he was really suffocating. Sven says he never knew about this and Gilbert Gottfried shows up and says it never happened.

However, the trailer below shows the publicity surrounding this, it doesn't mean Lugosi was really hypnotized but it was done for the cameras. In the scene, Lugosi is screaming "LET ME OUTTTTT!" In the trailer, he yells "I'M SUFFOCATING!" But in the film, that line is taken out.

In the book "The Immortal Count-The Life And Films Of Bela Lugosi" by Arthur Lenning, there is a quote from co star Anne Gwynne saying about this "All hype. It was all a put-on for the cameras and the press." When Boris Karloff was asked about the event, he said he was positive Lugosi was hypnotized because he "never saw him keep his back to the camera for so long".

[Dargo2]

Black Friday (1940) was on last night, one of the more disappointing Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi films. They don't share any scenes together and Lugosi's role is a small one, as a gangster.

While watching this turkey last night, every time actress Anne Nagel...



...who played the gun moll Sunny Rogers in it appeared on screen, I wondered if she might've been related to Martha Raye somehow.

(...turns out she wasn't, but I still say they could've been sisters)

[Bronxgirl48]

Stanley Ridges, of course, is the true star of BLACK FRIDAY, giving an excellent dual performance as the kindly professor and gangster Red Cannon.

It's interesting, though, how a brain transplant manages to change hair color.

[Swithin]

Stanley Ridges, of course, is the true star of BLACK FRIDAY, giving an excellent dual performance as the kindly professor and gangster Red Cannon.

It's interesting, though, how a brain transplant manages to change hair color.

Mentioning change in hair colour reminds me of the rarely seen 1957 film She Devil. Kyra (Mari Blanchard) is deathly ill. Two doctors cure her with a serum they've been working on. It turns her into a sort of monster. She goes to a dress shop to buy new clothes, and whilst there, sees a man with a wad of cash in his hand. "I want that money!," she exclaims. She grabs it and hits him over the head with a glass ashtray. The police are called, she runs into a changing cubicle. The police go from cubicle to cubicle, saying they're looking for a dark-haired girl wearing a cheap black dress. She panics but in her panic realizes she has the power to turn her hair blonde! And since it's a changing room in a dress shop, she finds a robe hanging, ditches her dress, and emerges, with enough money to buy a new dress.


In the dressing room, having just changed her hair colour.

[Hibi]

What is with ME-TV preempting shows with CBS programming? This has happened to me several times lately. Last half hr of Black Friday was jettisoned for some CBS crime show and it's happened with the 3 Stooges program earlier as well. Is it a cable problem? WEIRD. Was very ticked I couldnt watch the end of the movie! (though I've seen it before). The ME-TV show stops cold and some CBS show comes on! WTH???

[KayFrancis]

For the last few years Ed Sullivan reruns I guess were shown on MeTv, but not here. Instead they show CBS news. That's 3 stations with the same newscast. We've never seen the Ed Sullivan reruns even though they show the promo here that it will be on !

[txfilmfan]

What is with ME-TV preempting shows with CBS programming? This has happened to me several times lately. Last half hr of Black Friday was jettisoned for some CBS crime show and it's happened with the 3 Stooges program earlier as well. Is it a cable problem? WEIRD. Was very ticked I couldnt watch the end of the movie! (though I've seen it before). The ME-TV show stops cold and some CBS show comes on! WTH???

That's the decision of your local affiliate. That's why all the Me-TV promos state (usually in text on screen) that a particular program is available on most MeTV stations and platforms.

Most MeTV stations are digital subchannels of local affiliates of the big broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, etc) and they sometimes offload programming to one of their subchannels if something else is going on (sports overrun, breaking local news/weather, etc) or if they feel their alternate programming will draw in more viewers than MeTV's.

But it is odd to cut a program off in the middle unless it's some kind of emergency. Or it could've been simply a mistake by the local station (but unlikely).

[Hibi]

For the last few years Ed Sullivan reruns I guess were shown on MeTv, but not here. Instead they show CBS news. That's 3 stations with the same newscast. We've never seen the Ed Sullivan reruns even though they show the promo here that it will be on !

Weird.

[Hibi]

What is with ME-TV preempting shows with CBS programming? This has happened to me several times lately. Last half hr of Black Friday was jettisoned for some CBS crime show and it's happened with the 3 Stooges program earlier as well. Is it a cable problem? WEIRD. Was very ticked I couldnt watch the end of the movie! (though I've seen it before). The ME-TV show stops cold and some CBS show comes on! WTH???

That's the decision of your local affiliate. That's why all the Me-TV promos state (usually in text on screen) that a particular program is available on most MeTV stations and platforms.

Most MeTV stations are digital subchannels of local affiliates of the big broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, etc) and they sometimes offload programming to one of their subchannels if something else is going on (sports overrun, breaking local news/weather, etc) or if they feel their alternate programming will draw in more viewers than MeTV's.

But it is odd to cut a program off in the middle unless it's some kind of emergency. Or it could've been simply a mistake by the local station (but unlikely).

Every time its happened it shuts down a program while it's still running! It's not like they preempt the program, it just cuts it off! I don't get it.

[Dargo2]

Well, maybe if you two ladies would stop sitting on your remote and keep it on the end table where it belongs.....

Jus' kiddin'.

(...though btw...I have Dish Network and this sort'a thing has never happened to me...and so, yeah, weird in your cases, alright...but evidently Tex here has once again supplied us with the answer)

[Hibi]

I was nowhere near the remote either time it happened. It sounded like the channel changed, but it was the same channel, but not carrying what it was supposed to on that station (ME-TV!) It started showing CBS crap! One time it was the network news. The other some crime show! It did cut in on the hour mark, but it wasn't supposed to! When it cut in on the 3 Stooges it came back to the show a half hr later when the news ended! WTF???