Hey, remember this video? It was a report on a poll about the worst Halloween candies and I said I didn't know who'd conducted the poll and who the guy was in the video. A reader of this site, Jeff Peterson, tells me the survey was done by candystore.com (and it's right there on the video) and the newsman in the report is Steve Atkinson from 10News in San Diego. Thanks, Jeff.
Last evening, Buzzr ran the second of five episodes of The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour with the great Stan Freberg as a celebrity panelist. The third should be on tonight and so forth.
Also: I noted in this post that Wikipedia says there were 191 episodes of the series, which is a strange number for a five-a-week program. I got a lot of e-mailed theories and the most likely seems to be that the show was pre-empted four times, meaning that they sometimes didn't do five a week. Several folks told me they skipped Thanksgiving, January 2 for College Bowl games, and two days in July for Wimbledon coverage.
Sunday evening, my fave musical group Big Daddy put on their usual great show out in Santa Monica. A bonus of the evening was that I met Daniel Faigin, who reads this blog and has his own blog, Observations Along the Road, at this address. The topics he covers are highways, Judaism, history, off-beat news and the one that interests me the most, which is live theater mainly in the Southern California area. I've been reading some of his reviews of shows we both saw and he's a good, perceptive observer.
And speaking of live theater around here: In the past, I posted some raves for productions staged at the Cupcake Theater, an underfunded storefront operation out in North Hollywood. It's run by an energetic gent named Michael Pettenato, who's real good at producing musicals without a lot of money or stage space. Last April, Cupcake lost its location out on Magnolia Boulevard so we've been without their fine stagings…but it's just been announced that they found a new place to live. Sometime in January, they reopen out near Melrose and Vermont in what I guess would be called East Hollywood. No word yet on exactly when or what they'll be performing there so I'll let you know as soon as I hear.