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If you liked The Cecil Hotel on Netflix You Will Love Don't F*CK With Cats

Wathcing the newest trending Netflix series about Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel. If you enjoyed this docuseries then you will absolutely love Don't F*ck with Cats and the Keepers. These are the closest thrillers and murder mystery series to The Cecil Hotel.

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Paley Center for Media is the only way to watch Turn-On

The 1969 television show that was canceled halfway through it's 1st ever episode actually had two episodes. It was sponsored by Bristol-Myers which today is Bristol Myers Squibb. You can only find the full episodes at the Paley Center for Media which is temporarily closed but when they open I would be curious to see the footage to understand the hype and reasons it got canceled after only 1 episode. The other show this happened to was in Australia called Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos.

Source: https://www.paleycenter.org/

Sega Game Channel Ahead of it's time.

The Sega Game Channel was ahead of it's time and introduced us to streaming games downloaded through it's own power supply and coaxial cable back in 1994 and lasted until 1998 with 250,000 subscribers Sega really has been ahead of it's time with multiple innovations and inventions that they introduced. Imagine if they worked on a video streaming license deal using the same technology that the Sega Game Channel offered. They would have taken on Blockbuster (until Blockbuster introduced their own) and we may not know of Netflix today.

Watch this video for an overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07LLuBf_PEM

 

Also read: The Sega Game Gear Paved the way for Nintendo

If That 70's Show was That 90's Show Today..

Remember when Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher came on the Fox scene with That 70's Show in the 1998? The show took place 22 years earlier so if we had that 90's Show come out today (maybe on Netflix this time instead of Fox) It would be set 22 years earlier aka 1998. So just let that set in if you're an 80's or 90's baby that watched that 70's show. 

Apu May Soon Be Gone from the Simpsons

As any millenial remembers the Simpsons being one of the biggest parts of our lives as far as entertainment goes we can also embrace a day when the Simpsons far past it's prime years may no longer really be the Simpsons as they start to kill off characters. The Guardian is one of my favorite papers so support and donate to their hard working journalists if you enjoy their pieces: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/01/apu-simpsons-hero

Fact Checking Complex.com Inaccarucies for People vs OJ Episdoe 6

Each week the public is enamored with the People vs. OJ Simpson on FX. Following each episode it is fun to go ahead and see what is true and what is false from that weeks episode. Some things seem so obscure but yet they end up being true. Case and point the Marcia Clark nude photo that appears in the National Enquirer where she is shown in a "topless bathing suit". This was referenced from my hometown newspaper in the Baltimore Sun which ironically follows suit with this line

"Only Hillary Clinton has gone through more repackaging for a public that still hasn't decided if it wants women to work, let alone be good at their jobs." Fast forward to 2016 and Hilary is most likely the Democratic parties presidential candidate.

Okay so Back to the Point of my Rant about Complex.com Inaccuracy 

So what am I calling out writer Abigal Rowe for missing in her Complex piece this week?

"True or False: Clark was offended by Cochran's courtroom teasing "as a mother and as a woman," and later broke down in tears.

We looked through transcriptions and couldn’t find this particular quote. It’s probably an exaggeration. Clark also recently told the Daily Beast that she had to keep her “poker face” on in court, so no crying, and no emotional (albeit deserved) tirades against a sexist system."

With just a brief search of Rosa Lopez's testimony and information appears from a search a February 28, 1995 L.A. Times article written by Andrea Ford and Jim Newton that describes some of the scenes that took place in last weeks episode of which the following pieces from the Times piece confirms that this is a Fact and not fiction from last weeks episode as quoted below:

"Cochran was furious, asking Ito not to let himself be "snookered" by the prosecution. The lawyer accused Clark of saying Friday that she needed to care for her two young children that night--and thus could not be present for proposed evening testimony by Lopez--as a ruse to delay the housekeeper's appearance on the stand. An indignant Clark retorted that she was "offended as a woman, as a single parent, as a prosecutor and as an officer of the court."

Ito ruled in her favor, as he generally does when the defense and prosecution clash."

Read the L.A. Times article here: http://articles.latimes.com/1995-02-28/news/mn-37009_1_rosa-lopez/2

Abigal or the Complex staff if you are reading this please make the proper edits with a hat tip to me for pointing out the error.

Curb Your Enthusiasm in Real Life

Do you ever have days where there is a Curb Enthusiasm series of events that seem to transpire and you believe that they would make a great episode if it was happening to Larry David? Well let me mark November 30, 2015 as one of those real life episode days.