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R.I.P. Dick Clark

July 30, 2020April 18, 2012 by John Jackson Miller

I post TV trivia and memorabilia on my Facebook page from time to time; after today’s sad news about Dick Clark, I remembered where I had seen the first listing for American Bandstand’s network edition in TV Guide. Here’s the listing for Monday afternoon, August 5, 1957: Clark’s first guests were the Chordettes and Billy Williams (no, not that Billy Williams). The show had previously begun in 1952 in Philadelphia …

Chris Hardwick’s new show

July 30, 2020June 5, 2009 by John Jackson Miller

Years ago, I went to high school with comedian and tech-blogger Chris Hardwick. Chris was assigned as my freshman to torture during Freshman Initiation — an institution I was not fond of, based on my own experience — but Chris turned out to have such a great sense of humor that he took what few hazing indignities there were in stride. (But it did allow me, when he was co-host …