Tag: Chuck McCann

Mr. Chuckles

Posted on Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 7:49 PM

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Our pal Chuck McCann has a nice honor.  He's going to be the Grand Marshal of the annual Doo Dah Parade, which is scheduled for April 14 this year in Ocean City, New Jersey.  People love Chuck everywhere but those who grew up where they could watch his kids' show on New York TV in the sixties really love him.  Here's some press coverage of this honor and my thanks to Richard Gersh, who told me about it.

But that's not what I really wanted to tell you about Chuck.  What I really wanted to tell you is that he's just set up the best website on the Internet — better than this one even because his is full of clips of Chuck McCann. It's Chuck McCann's "Let's Have Fun" Club and you definitely want to join this…that is unless you're one of those weirdos who doesn't like having fun. Just go. Sign up. Browse around. And you'll see why you want to be there.

Chuck McCann Alert!

Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 4:18 PM

And speaking of projectionists…

This is for those of you in or around Los Angeles and I apologize about the short notice. Tomorrow night, the Egyptian Theater is running a two-movie Chuck McCann Film Festival. They're unspooling Play It As It Lays and The Projectionist…and in-between, they'll be unspooling Chuck. He'll be there to talk about his roles in both those films. I don't know if I can make it because I semi-committed to something else before I heard about it. It sounds like a great evening.

One warning: The Egyptian is a great place to watch movies and a dreadful place to watch people being interviewed. The rows down front are especially bad as that section has a negative rake to it, meaning that the seats in front of you are higher. You can see the screen but not anyone under and in front of it. Which is probably where Chuck will be. But you'll enjoy the movies and you'll enjoy Chuck because everyone always does. You may just enjoy him more if you sit where you can see him. More details on the event can be found here.