Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Lots of new details in pay-per-view story

I recently paid for and received a pay-per-view story from the LA Times, circa 1978.  Part of the agreement is that I do not post the article - and so I won't.  But what I can do is give you every detail mentioned.
  • The article was written by Don Weldon.
  • In 1934, butchers all over the US were "bewildered" by requests for beef punkles
  • In 1934, NBC was also getting a lot of requests for "beef punkle pie" and "beef punkle ice cream" prompted by the Vic and Sade program
  • In what was probably an Uncle Fletcher story, a man named Garvey Mullery Jr. (who married a woman 56 years old) made a pair of handcuffs out strawberry pop bottle lids and then used them to handcuff his father.
  • An unnamed woman had her teeth grow upside down in her mouth.
  • If Paul Rhymer wasn't finished writing a script in 3 hours, he would tear it up and start over with a fresh idea.
  • Rhymer once was asked to write for Amos and Andy - and he did.  Only it sounded too much like a Vic and Sade script.
  • The actual portrait of R.J. Konk (pictured in this vingnette) actually hung in Rhymer's house.  Rhymer's wife was artly tolerant, even though she was the Curator of Prints at the Chicago National Historical Society.
  • In Rhymer's home, there was such a thing as a "goop bottle."  The goop bottle contained small amounts of 320 different liquors.

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