Hey Hal, do you have the chops to take on Larry King?

[Darth Rotor]

Hal

For what it's worth, I think you do.

I came home tonight and flipped on the idiot box. CNN was on. Larry King had a guy called Chris Fleming on, a guy who refers to himself as "a sensitive." They were discussing that oh-so-important-to-the-fate-of-the-free-world topic of finding ghosts. The finest of woo, as it were, since the hotel where Chris is looking is where the Jack Nicholson film "The Shining" was allegedly filmed. (I had issues with the claim on TV, since the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island is where it was filmed.)

Larry King is catering to massive woo, Hal. He's a bloody institution. This, of course, is not news to you.

A little while ago, you cast Montel Williams a gauntlet, and called him out on his honor about hosting Sylvia Browne.

Care to set your sights a bit higher?

The Laws of the Navy have an approprite line for this.

The sight line may end on the target
But there cometh perchance a misfire.

Seems the round sent down range to Montel was a misfire. He didn't riposte. But perhaps you were shooting at a mosquito with a deer rifle. As celebrities go, he is, in comparative terms, a four point buck.

Big game, like moose or elk, is still out there for you to bag.

What say you, Hal? Do you think you can get Larry to bite? What harm in sending him a challenge?

DR

[Corsair 115]

Larry King *shudder*

He is perhaps the worst interviewer on television. How the hell he became this big interviewing deal is beyond my comprehension. A potted plant could conduct better interviews.

[Gord_in_Toronto]

As a potted plant I am deeply horrified to be compared to Larry the Credulous. :mad:

[hgc]

As I speak, Larry King is interviewing Shirley MacLaine. She is such a gushing fountain of ooga booga, a comprehensive compendium of woozy, that LK has his hands full just getting it all out on the table. He can't possibly find the time to ask critical questions. But seriously, LK makes a great living and a boatloads for Time Warner off interviewing celebrities and psychics. He will never jeapordize that by making his studio inhospitable to the inhindered flow of their silly. He just said that upcoming is "a skeptic." I can't wait to see who that is.

Anyway, Hal would get the same lack of meaningful engagement from LK as he got from Montel, and for the same reasons (beyond that Hal would be just one of many thousands of correspondents).

[DRBUZZ0]

I can't speak for hal but I think you'd probably have less of an issue convincing Hal to take on Larry King than you would having Larry King ever listen or even consider showing any skeptism. The dude panders to the "psychic" guests in such an amazingly bad way it makes me wonder if he's just completely lost it.

[LawnOven]

I can't speak for hal but I think you'd probably have less of an issue convincing Hal to take on Larry King than you would having Larry King ever listen or even consider showing any skeptism. The dude panders to the "psychic" guests in such an amazingly bad way it makes me wonder if he's just completely lost it.


Well he's been married 7 times to six different women, and he named his most recent children "Chance" and "Cannon", which are dog names.

Next will be "Rocket" and "Buddy".


I wonder if he ever had it.

[slingblade]

Hal

For what it's worth, I think you do.

I came home tonight and flipped on the idiot box. CNN was on. Larry King had a guy called Chris Fleming on, a guy who refers to himself as "a sensitive." They were discussing that oh-so-important-to-the-fate-of-the-free-world topic of finding ghosts. The finest of woo, as it were, since the hotel where Chris is looking is where the Jack Nicholson film "The Shining" was allegedly filmed. (I had issues with the claim on TV, since the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island is where it was filmed.)

Well, someone got something wrong. The Stanley does feature in The Shining (from the Wiki article):

The Stanley Hotel also hosted Stephen King, inspiring him to write The Shining. Contrary to information sometimes published, King was living in Boulder at the time and did not actually write the novel at the hotel. Parts of the mini-series version of The Shining were filmed there, although it was not used for Kubrick's cinematic version.

So, no, the movie wasn't filmed there, but The Stanley is involved in the story in a couple of ways. And it's also supposedly haunted. My 15+ years of living in Colorado mining towns has revealed that just about every place in the state has ghosts. I can't imagine how we all sleep at night. :)

[DJM]

Redrummmm Redrummmm

[Locknar]

As I speak, Larry King is interviewing Shirley MacLaine. She is such a gushing fountain of ooga booga, a comprehensive compendium of woozy, that LK has his hands full just getting it all out on the table. He can't possibly find the time to ask critical questions. But seriously, LK makes a great living and a boatloads for Time Warner off interviewing celebrities and psychics. He will never jeapordize that by making his studio inhospitable to the inhindered flow of their silly. He just said that upcoming is "a skeptic." I can't wait to see who that is.

Anyway, Hal would get the same lack of meaningful engagement from LK as he got from Montel, and for the same reasons (beyond that Hal would be just one of many thousands of correspondents).
I was channel flipping and caught this part...how anyone could sit across from MacLaine while she was a "gushing fountain of ooga booga" (I like that!) and not just start to laugh hysterically....I don't know.

[panchov]

Is Hal the skeptic guy that was on? I think he did a great job, he asked why they wont take the challenge and when Larry ignored him he asked again. Not really his fault Larry ignored him again. Larry after all was faced with the irrefutable evidence of the JVP knowing somebody had a tattoo! I generally enjoy watching shows like this because they are so dumb, but this one was just dumb in a bad way. Boring. Boring. Boring. To many people too many places. I was wondering though, did they go on for more than an hour and take calls, because my TIVO only got it as an hour and there were no calls. Shirley....wow, can you imagine what it would be like to know her and have to actually speak to her. Maybe she's ok if she's not talking about paranormal stuff.

[Babylon Sister]

In the Nicholson film, the exterior of the hotel was Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon. According to IMDB, the interiors were filmed at Elstree Studios in London.

I've stayed at The Stanley Hotel. Neat place but a bit run down. Herds of elk wander across the lawn every morning and evening. You can have a ghost tour if you like, but don't go to the bar. The spirits are very expensive.

[mayday]

Larry King is so white and nerdy.

Was that guy Hal Bidlack? Wow. I noticed there was one of him and a whole panel of "them."
Wasn't hardly fair.

That Shirley McClaine is an outstanding actress but where does she come up with some of that stuff???

[mayday]

Hal


A little while ago, you cast Montel Williams a gauntlet, and called him out on his honor about hosting Sylvia Browne.



What happened with that?

[Moochie]

Well he's been married 7 times to six different women, and he named his most recent children "Chance" and "Cannon", which are dog names.

Next will be "Rocket" and "Buddy".


I wonder if he ever had it.


I believe his next two kids will be called "Cash" and "Money."

If there's a third mini-Larry, its name will be "Bank."


M.

[Kilgore Trout]

What happened with that?

A disgusting form letter. (http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com/articles/montelresponsetoopenletter.shtml)