Make 'Em Laugh

If you like Paul Lynde, you'll want to get your hands on a copy of the companion book for the recent PBS documentary: Make 'Em Laugh. There's a nice write-up about everyone's favorite game show panelist. The show was nice, too.

Dody Goodman

Dody Goodman has passed away. She co-starred with Paul Lynde in a "Best of New Faces" production in Florida in 1957, among other work, but is best remembered for her appearances on Jack Paar's Tonight Show , Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and the Grease movies. I'm of the generation who first came to appreciate her because of her appearances on Diff'rent Strokes.

On a related note, she also appeared three times for the Kenley Players: Plain and Fancy, with Peter Marshall, My Daughter, Your Son, with Vivian Vance, and George Washington Slept Here, with James Coco.

Paul Lynde, Weatherman

I've seen lots of rare Paul Lynde video over the years. This is one of the best!



(Thanks to Mary Lou!)

A Festive Halloween Shopping Idea

Don't forget to buy your copy of the Paul Lynde Halloween Special, which comes out on DVD today! Maybe this'll motivate Sony to release The Paul Lynde Show. Even after years of collecting bootlegs, I'm still a couple of episodes short of having a complete set. Heck, maybe this'll motivate someone to release the first Paul Lynde variety special. I desperately want to see his performance of "Love Will Keep Us Together," which he did with Nancy Walker and the Osmonds! I'm probably the only person in the world who has a bootleg audio version of this landmark moment on his iPod.

Alice Ghostley

Tony-winning actress Alice Ghostley has died. Like Paul Lynde, she was one of the New Faces of 1952, a frequent guest-star on Bewitched, and even one of the Kenley Players when she appeared with Paul in Stop, Thief, Stop in 1975. Paul and Alice often worked together, as this list illustrates, and were mistaken for siblings almost from the get-go. (As an aside, I always thought she was hilarious on Designing Women.)