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The Fix, a crew member next to guest star Bill Russell on the studio set built for the court room

I inadvertently stumbled across this on ebay just now. Looks like RB is selling his 1984 cast/crew Christmas card from DJ with custom artwork by Rick Garcia! https://www.ebay.com/itm/364745075135?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=aE3InzSvTTm&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=pubP6yz6RwS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Today we wish a very Happy Birthday to ................. ViceFanMan! Enjoy your Special Day!

I always find it exciting to see in these photos how many people, cables and other stuff there are where you only see the actors in a scene.

Happy Birthdday, @ViceFanMan. Enjoy your very special day.

Happy birthday!

I could picture It's a Mistake by Men At Work, there's something about the album cover and the lyrics that remind me of South America and drug trafficking

Happy VICE Birthday @ViceFanMan ... I hope YOU will enjoy YOUR Day Pal

Today we wish a very Happy Birthday to ....................... Castillo71! Enjoy your very Special Day!

Yes, it's interesting how sports die. I remember walking in Chichen Itza through what used to be a court for a ball game among Mayans and other Mesoamerican peoples, thinking "it's a dynamic demanding game with cool rules, why nobody plays it today?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame I think Miami and MD need to come in with public support and revive Jai Alai beyond commercial interest, and make it another unique differentiator of Miami as they build out its international brand. It's just too cool and unique to miss out. Add it to that bragging that we now have all the major sports represented... NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Miami Open, Formula 1... make it a loud Jai Alai capital of Americas!

I think it’s basically a matter of time and people’s tastes changing. I’ve read about sports obscure today that used to be quite popular in various places. One was bicycle track racing, which took place on indoor wood floored velodromes. The audiences bet on the winners like horse racing. This was in the late 19th and early 20th century. It’s still around, but used to be much more popular. There were velodromes in cities across the US, some cities having multiple venues. One of its big stars, in this time of segregation, was actually an African American rider named Major Taylor. I recall reading 25+ years ago, an article by an LA Times sports writer who was retiring, about changing tastes in sports. This was in the 90’s. He recalled the most popular sports (and the most coveted beat to report on) when he began his career after WWII were boxing, horse racing, and MLB. I’ve also read several articles in the last few years about the very large number of municipal golf courses around the country that have closed as the sport’s popularity is waning with younger generations. At least jai alai is still popular somewhere. “Real tennis” is another example. It predates the tennis we all know today. It was once the popular version in the 18th and 19th centuries and a court was even built at Versailles. There are only a couple of dozen courts left in the world today. It’s a strange mashup of tennis and racquetball, with walls and roof slopes that the ball can be played off of. Edit: here’s a link. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_tennis

Today we wish a Happy Birthday to ................. redfoxx! Enjoy your Big Day!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/02/18/harrison-ford-star-wars-script-london/ "The script, dated March 15, 1976, and titled “The Adventures of Luke Starkiller,” sold to an Austrian collector for about $13,600 during a live-streamed auction on Saturday." @Tom ?!?!?!?

...and myself...

LOL thanks for suspecting me, but I ain´t it! There are 9 mio of us, including Arnold Schwarzenegger. I have to save all my money for MV auctions! (just kidding) Also I am no hardcore SW fan, just an occasional viewer.

I’ve recently heard about & acquired a bizarre, but interesting movie called Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965). It wasn’t that popular when it was first released, but over the years & decades it’s now considered & become a cult-classic! It was a British-American psychological thriller, directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Carol Lynley as Ann Lake—a single young mother desperately searching for her missing 4-year-old daughter Bunny, after moving to London…along with her brother. She goes to pick her up from a pre-school, and there’s no sign of her. Plus, the school’s staff doesn’t remember ever seeing the girl! More strange and telling events occur as suddenly when the cop in charge of the case (played by veteran actor Laurence Olivier) discovers that none of the young child’s clothes or personal items are in Ann’s flat…they’ve disappeared! But, then it’s discovered that Ann had an imaginary playmate as a child named “Bunny”. Hardly any trace of this little girl can be found…yet both Ann and her brother swear she exists & someone has taken her. Does Bunny Lake really exist…or is she the fragment of imagination, from the twisted & tormented mind of Ann? Is the preschool in on the disappearance…or are they in the “London fog” like the rest of us? Filmed mostly in London, the locations and cinematography are superb, and definitely add to the creepy & odd plot & atmosphere! The plot twists themselves were intriguing and kept you captivated until the finale. Also, the English 60s rock band “The Zombies” have a strange cameo a couple times…which really helped add a cool-creepy vibe! And the end is wild…very disturbing but in a fascinating way! Very “dark”, especially for the time this film was made…because this was the 60s, some aspects could not be directly shown on screen. But, that’s okay….we don’t need to see the “details”, as what is shown & portrayed leaves you no trouble reading between the proverbial “inappropriate” lines! This was a delightful, out-there, creepy, suspenseful thriller. Stellar performances by everyone, and I love a movie that uses actual acting & locations (instead of lots of CGI type special effects) to make my skin crawl. The Powerhouse/Indicator Blu-ray, with lots of cool & interesting special features, is superb!

A still shot on the set of "Buddies", where we can see the upper end of the studio set wall, which is not visible on TV of course.

Nice, I just watched The French Connection and The Conversation for the first time, loved both! Might have to check this one out soon too.

Here is St. Francis Hospital with the parking lot (on Allison Island in Miami Beach), where Crockett & Tubbs give Noogie a box of chocolates in exchange for risking his life. Looking south: