Friday's Favs
(Note: every Friday I'll post a favorite rant from the archives) from September 18, 2009 Movie Daze We had a thing about movies on TV in Detroit. Mainly, that we didn't always like to tune in to watch the movie itself. Often it was the sideshow, the stuff between clips of celluloid, that drew us to the TV, back in the day. There was The Ghoul on Saturday nights, and the sheer quality of the flicks that The Ghoul foistered on his viewers made you want to look away, until there was a break and it was time for The Ghoul, Froggy, and Cheez Whiz. There was Rita Bell and her "Prize Movie," on in the mornings. Rita was a sweet lady (my wife once met her, working in the same building, and said she was very nice) who'd play a movie and then solicit phone calls in between, with lucky callers winning stuff. Then there was Bill Kennedy. Ole Bill, the former B-movie actor with the gravelly voice, which was made even croakier thanks to the cigarettes he chain-smoked on the air....