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I never saw the series “Fargo” when it was running on TV. But I happened to sit down when the whole series was being shown. I got all the way up to the last and final episode when my TV quit!!! Do you know anywhere they might be showing it again on TV?
I do not know of any current telecasts of the TV series “Fargo,” which was derived from the Coen brothers movie of the same name. I don’t even see it On Demand. For those of you just hearing about the show, it is worth finding. The first season’s cast included Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman. That first season is now on DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Instant and iTunes. A second season has been ordered, although it will have a significantly different cast.
I don’t understand why David Letterman insists on jogging across the stage from left to right and then walking out onto the stage. Before he utters a word, he then takes a right turn, walks over to the edge of the curtain, leans on a pole behind it for a few seconds and then comes center stage. Maybe he says something there to someone each night but we don’t know that, as no one is visible. Do you know why he has this unusual approach to the evening’s activities?
More than one reader has asked this question, which suggests some people watch the details of TV very, very closely. But if Letterman has a special reason for doing it, I have no answer. When I asked CBS about it, a representative said the question had been asked before and “there’s no real reason behind it, it’s just something that Dave does.”
There was a film titled “The Whip Hand” that was released in 1951, from director William Cameron Menzies, which I seem to recall having seen in a small-town theater in 1952. As I recall, it portrayed a small town that was invaded by some Communists who planned biological germ warfare by unleashing a deadly virus in the water supply. I’d like to see it again. Did it ever get onto DVD, or can it be streamed from some source?
You remember the plot pretty well — although, besides the Communists, there’s an evil Nazi scientist, and the hero is a journalist! (Elliott Reid, later a regular in Disney movies, played that role.) Unfortunately, I have not found an authorized release of it on disc or online, and I don’t recommend bootlegs.
Is there any chance of NBC or any other network picking up the “Dracula” series?
No. The quite odd portrayal of the vampire (played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers) ended after a single season in 2013-14.
The original character Ridge from “The Bold and the Beautiful” has been gone quite a while from the soap. What happened to him?
RoNN (as he now spells it on his website) Moss left the show in 2012 after playing Ridge Forrester for 25 years. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he said, “I felt that I needed to go in this new direction to give myself the chance to do all the creative things that I haven’t had a chance to do in 25 years, because I’ve dedicated so much of my life to this.”
Since then, he has played music (he’s a member of Player of Baby Come Back fame), appeared on Celebrity Wife Swap with his wife, Devin Devasquez, and with her marketed a product called Devin’s Kickass Cajun Seasoning. You can read more about him at www.ronnmoss.com.
