#magnum p.i 1980

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oh this takes it . this is taking it ALL

Not MASH today but my diva and icon Orville Wright deserve his edit

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Magnum, P.I. (1980), "Mixed Doubles"

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Tom Selleck was shocked when Frank Sinatra appeared on Magnum, P.I. for free. Ol’ Blue Eyes was a big fan of the Hawaii-based crime show, he asked to be on it, and Tom personally called him to ask what type of character he wanted to play. "My co-star, Larry Manetti, he was a big, big Frank fan and he said, 'You gotta call Frank, he wants to do the show,' and I said, 'OK,' and I knew Frank, but not like Larry. So I call Frank and I say, 'Do you want to do our show?' And he goes, 'Yeah,' and I say, 'Well, we're going to have to write it for you, what do you want to do?" He says, 'I don't know, just make sure I get to beat somebody up.'"

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Higgins complimenting Magnum behind his back

S02E19- Double Jeopardy

S05E03- The Legacy of Garwood Huddle

S06E12- I never wanted to go to France, anyway

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FILMSZERÉSZ TOP 100 TÉVÉSOROZAT - 51. Magnum

Jöjjön a hawaii bajszos. Azt ugye mindenki tudja, hogy ez volt az a sorozat, ami miatt Tom Selleck nem tudott Indiana Jones lenni - pedig már próbafelvételei is voltak Az elveszett frigyláda fosztogatóihoz. A Magnum akkortáj indult, óriási sikerrel. Selleck nyilvánvalóan azért sem akart harcolni a CBS-szel, mert hiába volt Spielberg már nagy név, a színész épp eleget szívott a pályán addigra ahhoz, hogy inkább belenyugodjon a tutiba a bizonytalan sikerű kalapos kalandfilm helyett. A CBS Universal-csatorna volt, ezért sem akarták elengedni őt egy Paramount-moziba. (És milyen érdekes, hogy a Paramount később elengedte Michael J. Fox-ot a Családi kötelékekből egy bizonyos időutazós Universal-projekt kapcsán.) Egyfelől valószínű, hogy sokkal nagyobb sztár lett volna Selleckből, ha ő marad és nem érkezik Harrison Ford, ugyanakkor meg ma már ebbe belegondolni is nehéz. Hiszen Ford maga Dr. Henry Walton „Indiana" Jones, Jr., Tom Selleck meg Thomas Sullivan Magnum (P.I.).

Az is marad. Legendás címszereplője e laza hangulatú, szabványos, de tisztességgel megírt napfényes krimisorozatnak, amelyben vannak sportkocsik, helikopter - és Magnum körül számos segítő, akik közül nem mindenki visel bajuszt. Cool cucc, időközben átalakult, de mindvégig remek főcímzenével, komoly popkult hatással. Szerettem gyerekként is, és ma is tudom nézni, ha valahol megy.

(A remake-et néha szintúgy elcsípem a tévében, de nem érdekel. Jay Hernandez klassz csávó, viszont az új Magnum nekem nem a Magnum. Csak egy korrekt akciósorozat, aminek ugyanaz a címe.)

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Pamela Susan Shoop

Pamela Susan Shoop is an American actress who has made a name for herself in the film and television industry. She was born on June 7th 1948, in Hollywood, California, and began her acting career in the late 1960s. Over the years, Shoop has appeared in a number of popular film and television productions, earning critical acclaim for her performances. Shoop’s first film role was in the 1969 film…

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Magnum, P.I. (CBS, 1980-1988)

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Magnum P.I. - 1980 1.04 | Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too

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MAGNUM, P.I. (1980 - 1988) Season 3, Episode 2: Did You See the Sunrise Part 2

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Republican Security Council

We feel so sorry for poor Michelle Obama and we hope she is not struggling financially.

Her Twitter bio describes her as a "Girl from the South Side" of Chicago. In her speech last night to the Democratic Convention, Mrs. Obama spoke of her mother and said “She and my father didn’t aspire to be wealthy. They were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed." What would they think of their daughter now?

According to Forbes, Michelle Obama has a net worth in excess of $70 million. The family has three residences and each one has a value in excess of $10 million. Her 30 acre beach front summer home on Martha's Vineyard has an estimated value of $20 million,

The Obama family beachfront estate in Hawaii was built on the site of the mansion used as the primary location for the 1980s hour-long action TV show Magnum P.I. The land alone cost $9 million in 2015, and despite having its own beach, the property has two swimming pools. They also own a mansion in Washington, DC's exclusive Kalorama neighborhood near the French embassy.

According to her Speaker's Bureau, Mrs. Obama receives $750,000 for an appearance and she received a $65 million advance for her memoir "Becoming". The combined Obama family wealth prior to the presidency was $1.3 million.

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TV Guide -  May 30 - June 5, 1964

Ernest Borgnine (/ˈbɔːrɡnaɪn/; born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012)  Film, stage and television actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular performer, he also appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and as a panelist on several game shows.

Borgnine made his TV debut as a character actor in Captain Video and His Video Rangers, beginning in 1951. These two episodes led to countless other television roles that Borgnine would gain in Goodyear Television Playhouse, The Ford Television Theatre, Fireside Theatre, Frontier Justice, Laramie, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Run for Your Life, Little House on the Prairie (a two-part episode entitled "The Lord is My Shepherd"), The Love Boat, Magnum, P.I., Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote, Walker, Texas Ranger, Home Improvement, Touched by an Angel, the final episodes of ER, the first episode of Wagon Train, and many others.

In 1962, Borgnine signed a contract with Universal Studios for the lead role as the gruff but lovable skipper, Quinton McHale, in what began as a serious one-hour 1962 episode called "Seven Against the Sea" for Alcoa Premiere, and later reworked to a comedy called McHale's Navy, a World War II sitcom, which also co-starred unfamiliar comedians Joe Flynn as Capt. Wally Binghamton and Tim Conway as Ens. Charles Parker. The insubordinate crew of PT-73 helped the show become an overnight success during its first season, landing in the top 30 in 1963. (Wikipedia)

Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (December 15, 1933 – May 14, 2019) Film and television actor, comedian, writer, and director. From 1966 to 2012 he appeared in more than 100 TV shows, TV series and films. Among his more notable roles, he portrayed the inept Ensign Parker in the 1960s World War II TV situation comedy McHale's Navy, was a regular cast member (1975–1978) on the TV comedy The Carol Burnett Show where he portrayed his recurrent iconic characters Mister Tudball, the Oldest Man and the Dumb Private, co-starred with Don Knotts in several films (1975–80), was the title character in the Dorf series of eight sports comedy direct-to-video films (1987–1996), and provided the voice of Barnacle Boy in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–2012). Twice, in 1970 and in 1980–1981, he had his own TV series.  (Wikipedia)

Joseph Anthony Flynn III (November 8, 1924 – July 19, 1974) Film and television character actor. He was best known for his role as Captain Wallace Binghamton in the 1960s ABC television situation comedy McHale's Navy. He was also a frequent guest star on 1960s TV shows, such as Batman, and appeared in several Walt Disney film comedies. (Wikipedia)

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Magnum, P.I. (1980), "Skin Deep"

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Enterra Vipre

The Enterra Vipre was developed in the mid-1980s by a group of waiters at the Keg Restaurant on Vancouver’s Granville Island. Somehow they managed to secure a grant from the Canadian Scientific Research Council for $10 million CAD, and perhaps not surprisingly it all went wrong shortly after.

Whoever these waiters were they were astonishingly adept salesmen. Not only did they talk their way into that $10 million CAD government grant, but they also talked General Motors into selling their cars in the USA right out of Pontiac dealerships – with a full manufacturer’s warranty no less.

Exactly how a group of waiters came up with the idea of starting their own car company may be lost to history, but we do know that in the early-to-mid 1980s the waitstaff at the Keg Restaurant on Vancouver’s Granville Island hatched a plan to launch their own custom car brand and call it Cymbria.

Rather than building a car from scratch as Bricklin has done a decade earlier before collapsing into bankruptcy the team at Cymbria decided too instead base their car on a preexisting production sports car to save time and money.

The car they chose was arguably the hottest American sports car of the time, the Pontiac Fiero, an affordable mid-engined car with a lightweight fiberglass body. Cymbria developed their own custom bolt-on fiberglass body for the car, then they developed a more luxurious interior, they doubled the sticker price, and put their car on the market.

By the time the initial problems with the body moulds and ill-fitting panels had been rectified it was 1986 and the company had changed its name to Enterra, possibly as a way to leave some space between themselves and the negative press that the earlier 1984 Cymbria prototype had attracted.

The styling of the Enterra Vipre was perhaps a little misleading. It looked like a mid-engined supercar that was doing 200 mph even standing still. In reality it was powered by the standard 2.8 liter Pontiac V6 making just 140 bhp and 170 lb ft of torque.

When the Fiero was still new and exciting back in 1983 and 1984 many kit car and low-volume automakers hailed it as their savior. Its steel spaceframe chassis, mid-engined layout, and easy-to-remove fiberglass outer body panels made it ideally suited to modification. Countless Ferrari replica kit cars were based on the Fiero, there were also Lamborghini kits, and kits replicating other models. Interestingly one of those Ferrari replica designs was the Pontiac Mera – it had a bodykit designed to emulate the Ferrari 308 GTS which was being used in the popular Magnum P.I. TV series in the 1980s. 159 of them were made and sold through Pontiac dealers in the USA before the Ferrari lawyers got involved and shut the operation down. The Canadian answer to this Fiero phenomenon was the Enterra Vipre. Its design was clearly influenced by the Ferraris of the time including the F40, though it was carefully designed so as not to be a replica of any single model – therefore resistant to the famously litigious Ferrari legal representatives in the United States.

The first prototype was built in 1984 as the Cymbria Vipre, however the poor fitment of the fiberglass body panels and overall build quality left a lot to be desired. The moulds had to be completely redone, by the time they were ready it was 1986. The car was relaunched, now as the Enterra Vipre, with a price of over $30,000 USD – the equivalent to $71,277 USD in 2023 and roughly double the cost of a standard V6 Fiero.

Despite the fact that the car was being sold through selected Pontiac dealerships in the USA it was a complete flop. The lack of brandname awareness for Enterra coupled with the high price and the fact that the car had slightly worse performance than the stock V6 Fiero (due to to the larger/heavier body) resulted in dismal sales.

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Delilah’s Kill Count

I’m A Menace ;)

The Modern Persephone

Snapshots

Daisy

Like The Jingle Of A Bell

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Holidays 12.11

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Premieres

Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer (Play; 1980)

Barnyard WAAC (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

The Big Short (Film; 2015)

Cats in the Bag (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

The Cliff Hanger or Taken for Granite (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 79; 1960)

Empty Socks (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Falling In Love Again, recorded by Marlene Dietrich (Song; 1939)

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Lion and the Mouse (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1943)

Magnum P.I. (TV Series; 1980)

Mouse Cleaning (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1948)

The Muppet Christmas Carol (Film; 1992)

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The Princess and the Frog (Animated Disney Film; 2009)

Rocky and the Rock or Take for Granite (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 185; 1962)

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Shakespeare in Love (Film; 1998)

Sheep Ahoy (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)

The Silver Thieves, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S2, Eps. 43 & 44; 1965)

A Small Matter of Pygmies (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #13; 1964)

Star Trek: Insurrection (Film; 1998)

Supersonic Boom or The Old Mount’s A-Moverin’ (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 80; 1960)

The Three Lives of Thomasina (Film; 1963)

Time Out of Joint, by Philip K. Dick (Novel; 1959)

Trouble Upstairs ir Bats in the Boris (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 186; 1962)

Wall Street (Film; 1987)

Wool: Casting Off, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2011)

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