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AdViews

…a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B).

Be still, my consumerist, ad junkie, vidiot heart. It’s not like I don’t watch enough television already, now this. (Via)

Frame capture from 1970's Doan's Pills TV commercial archived at AdViews, a collection of commercials from the 50s to the 80s. Image features product packaging and the company's "relief from nagging backache" tag line. Image via Adviews.

Frame grab from 1970’s Doan’s Pills spot. (Image via Adviews)

This Week’s Canceled DVR ‘Season Passes’

  • Lost
  • Law & Order
  • 24
  • FlashForward

Alas, not of my own choosing. Cumulatively, some serious viewing mileage. On the bright side: four hours of brain time reclaimed for other pursuits (or shelf space cleared for the next season’s offerings).

Till then, perhaps I should give this “reading” thing everybody talks about another try.

This Week’s Canceled DVR ‘Season Passes’

  • Heroes - Should’ve been canceled last season (by me and NBC)

This Week’s Canceled DVR ‘Season Passes’

An all-healthcare edition:

  • Trauma - Clear!
  • Mercy - I miss E.R.
  • Scrubs - Funny was its pre-existing condition. Now on lifeless support.
I hate, hate, hate being left out. Whether it’s not being picked for a team, or being picked for a team, and then showing up, and realizing that the team doesn’t exist, or that the sport doesn’t exist. I should’ve known. Poopball…?
Michael Scott, from The Office

This Week’s Canceled DVR ‘Season Pass’

  • Parks & Recreation - There’s dry, and then there’s comedically arid.

…is ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ for the Internet Age.
Critic’s review of the film ‘Untraceable’

“…is ‘The Net’ for the Internet Age” is more appropriate. On the TV ad, the critic’s name is so small and illegible that it reeks of pseudonym for a cubicle crawler in the Screen Gems marketing department. 
Maila (‘Vampira’) Nurmi (1921-2008)

Maila (‘Vampira’) Nurmi (1921-2008)

Honorary Mayor Of Hollywood, Johnny Grant, Dies At 84

Johnny Grant, Honorary Mayor of Hollywood
His Honor, Johnny Grant

‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’

The remote control strayed into a mini The Man From U.N.C.L.E. marathon over on Turner Classic Movies today.

Sharkskin suits. Cigarettes. Double-agent stewardesses. Cheeseball now, but way cool in the 60’s. And the closest network TV got to squeezing Bond into the small screen.. until it came down with a dreaded case of The Camp.

There’s a long-time-coming dvd set available, but for a bloated 2007 price. ‘Open Channel D’.