Froot Loops may be a bunch of different colors in your cereal bowl, but each little nugget is the same flavor as the next – a combo of orange, lemon, lime, apple, cherry, raspberry, and blueberry. Mixed together with corn, wheat, oats, sugar, all kinds of food coloring, and milk – Froot Loops are a little flashback to childhood fortified with vitamins and minerals.
Today is when I learned that RuPaul already has three Christmas records and this new 2o23 “Essential Christmas” is a remastered and remixed greatest-hits collection. Of course, I don’t have a CD in hand. Like everyone else these days, I’m streaming the first thirty seconds of various tracks until I find one I like. This is the first one I hit that lets Ru’s personality come through without overtaxing his range. I’d definitely put it on the Christmas party spin list.
Most folks recognize Fran Drescher’s exaggerated Queens accent from “The Nanny.” I think it’s safe to say she heightens it for comedy, especially the nasal quality, but at the core, it’s how she talks. Here’s an interview from 2018.
Of course, Drescher’s an actress, so she’s learned to ramp it up – or tamp it down – as needed. In her film debut, 1977’s “Saturday Night Fever” it’s not quite so exaggerated when John Travolta abandons her on the dance floor.
Mark Elliott passed away April 4, 2021. If you grew up watching white clamshell VHS prints of Disney movies, Mark’s voice is forever part of your childhood.
OK, most of 1992’s “Lethal Weapon 3” was made in and around Los Angeles, but the building that goes boom at the beginning is the old City Hall in Downtown Orlando. Here’s Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and their stunt doubles running out of “International Control Systems Inc.” You can even see a WFTV 9 live truck on the left side of the screen, but the mast is down, so it couldn’t have been going “live.”
Today, that area isn’t far from what most people call the giant asparagus statue, although it’s officially the Tower of Light.
And here’s the moment, captured forever on the backglass of the Lethal Weapon 3 pinball machine.
