The Saturday Picture Show, March 9, 2024

 

Outside of the chance of there being another Willy Wonka movie, what could be more depressing than an abandoned diner? This makes me think of Hall and Oates's song and album "Abandoned Luncheonette," and all those catsup bottles waiting to be refilled.

I never found out whether this was random. Probably not, since the people who worked at Radio Shack knew their way around electricity, and would have figured out this way to say "Sayonara."

For two bucks, you could see this world of talent. For $3.75, I saw The Beatles. Today, people pay a thigh and a leg to see Madonna, and she makes you wait two hours before she shows up.

It's the smart home designer who takes care to tend to the little details. Note that in this fashionable "living area," the wood tones even extend to the fireplace logs. Class.

This is Enya, the Irish composer and performer whose soporific New Age music has become the stumbling  building block of a generation seeking heightened spiritual consciousness. Her mansion is valued at 115,567,270.00 United States Dollars, all earned by selling downloads of songs with titles like "Orinoco Flow." 

Not gonna lie, there was a certain majesty in being six feet from randos. There is always, always something for which to be thankful.

"So far away," is all the police were able to determine. They're still on the lookout.

This week, Idina Menzel, who must have a great sense of humor, wished Adele Dazeem a happy 10th birthday. That's how long it's been since John Travolta goobered up her name at the Oscars.

In a picture taken before The Big Bang Theory even started showing on CBS, Jim Parsons posed with a poster. Do you think he even dared to dream the show would be on for twelve seasons and spawn two spinoffs?

The advertising industry was at one time just crazy about celebrity endorsements, no matter how little the celebrated person had to do with the product they were pushing. I mean, Chuck Connors, former big league baseball and basketball player, and actor, most notably on "The Rifleman." Did the Speed Queen people want us to think that when it came time to replace the tired old top-loader downstairs, we would seek advice from Chuck?