‘Mr. Bug Goes to Town’ is a terrific cartoon about a village of insects who find themselves in the midst of human encroachment. Hoppity, the bug, is the ne’er-do-well who works to get them out of trouble. The animated film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry to learn of the death of Rod Taylor. Taylor was the best of the few to portray John D. MacDonald‘s ‘Travis McGee’ in film. Taylor starred in ‘Darker than Amber’, adapted from MacDonald’s book of the same name. McGee[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida is sad to learn of the death of Lauren Bacall. She was an incredible beauty that portrayed a steel will in most all of her characters from her ‘Key Largo’ Nora Temple character to Margaret Kramer in ‘My Fellow Americans’.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wow! Author John D. MacDonald ‘s first in the Travis McGee series, ‘The Deep Blue Good-Bye’, is back in action as a film. Leonardo DiCaprio has been working on bringing a McGee movie to the screen for quite awhile.What do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jeepers Creepers is typical of a horror film. This Florida-made film was a surprise success and lead to sequels. Filming was all over Marion, Sumter and Lake Counties in north Central Florida.
Edward Scissorhands is not only filmed in Florida, but, unlike ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’, is also set in Florida. Filming was all over west Central Florida. Lakeland’s iconic Southgate shopping center arch figures prominently in the film. The arch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As promised from last week, here is a matchbook of the Miami Beach Auditorium that staged The Jackie Gleason Show so many years ago. Below is the back of the matchbook. Below is the whole matchbook.
Here’s a great place to visit – The Martin Theatre in Panama City. Opened in 1936 as part of the Ritz chain that were all over Florida and the southeast. In the 1950s the Martin family took over until the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Florida Theater in Downtown Jacksonville on this very quiet Saturday night.
Sorry to learn of death of Larry Hagman. He starred for 6 years in series set in Cocoa Beach, ‘I Dream of Jeannie’. Here’s the story: http://ow.ly/fxn43
On Friday, August 24th, a marker to the television series ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ was unveiled at Lori Wilson Park off A1A in Cocoa Beach. The commemoration was to recognize the the popular TV series took place in Cocoa Beach,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Place: The Hob Nob, 1701 N. Washington Boulevard (US301), Sarasota 34234 (941) 955-5001 hobnobdrivein.com Setting: Unique, all outdoor design with cover. Base is a counter with surrounding tables and stools. Neighborhood is not the best. 4/1/2012 Menu: Burger and fries.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…