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You might have heard the sad news already: it was reported last night that Calvert DeForest… who will forever be known as that lovable oddball Larry “Bud” Melman on the original Late Night with David Letterman (NBC wouldn’t let him keep the Melman name when the show moved to CBS)… has died at the age of 85.

Whether he was Larry Melman on the NBC show or Calvert DeForest at CBS, he was definitely a unique and memorable personality. Usually he’d be put in some weird situation as a Late Night/Late Show correspondent (remember him doing the 1994 Winter Olympics in Norway?) and proceed to act confused and flub lines… usually with the cue cards right in front of him too.

Melman was on the very first edition of Late Night that I saw (it was like 1986, four years after Letterman started his show at NBC). ...

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27 years after Jake and Elwood did it, somebody has finally acted out in real life the mall scene from The Blues Brothers. Stephen Lowe of Augusta, Georgia drove his SUV plum through the glass doors of the Augusta Mall and drove all over the place inside the mall. He even did Jake and Elwood one better: Lowe drove on the top floor of the mall. See some amazing footage of his rampage here and here.

It must be reported though that Lowe’s career ended spectacularly short of that of the Blues Brothers, as he was apprehended outside the mall soon after....

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This is why some things are worth fighting…

According to a story from Media General, Rockingham County schools exceed the state average when it comes to school violence. For the school year 2005-06 there were “64 reports of possession of a controlled substance, 43 reports of possession of a weapon, 20 reports of possession of alcoholic beverages, 13 reports of assault on personnel, three reports of assault resulting in serious injury, three reports of bomb threats, and one report each of possession of a firearm, sexual offense and assault involving use of a weapon.”

Meanwhile, the News & Record is reporting that given a typical group of 10 students from Rockingham County, “half have had sex, three have smoked pot and, within the previous two weeks, two have gotten drunk. At least three have beaten another person, two have carried a weapon for protection, two smoked cigarettes, one has ...

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KWerky Productions

presents

A CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT FILM

Chad Austin

and

Melody Hallman Daniel

starring in

Some said it couldn’t be done. Others said it shouldn’t have been done. But… we did it! A parody of Misery, the Rob Reiner film based on the Stephen King novel. Only in this version it’s George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars saga, who crashes in a blizzard just after finishing the script for Episode III, then gets “rescued” by his “number-one fan”. “Nice job!” is what “Weird Al” Yankovic told us after he watched it. Plenty of sly in-jokes and references for keen-eyed fans of both George Lucas and Stephen King to find. Actually there’s a little something in this for everyone. And don’t worry, we made this to be a good, clean movie that anyone in the family can enjoy. If you like comedy in the vein of “Weird Al”...
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