So apparently, not many of my 13 readers here at Drunk TV know that I have a separate blog—Mavis Movie Madness!…but mostly TV—most probably because absolutely no one reads it. Well, my intrepid editor thought it would be a good idea to cross-reference them, so here’s a piece I wrote about the NBC’s 60th Anniversary Celebration, that aired May 12th, 1986. Enjoy, you booze hounds!
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‘The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case’ (1976): Anthony Hopkins hams it up in shallow true crime performance
So, wait: Lindbergh willingly sacrificed his kid to Nobel Prize-winning biologist Alexis Carrel in some Abrahamic gesture to provide Carrel a body for eugenics experimentation that went wrong…and then covered it up? That promotion for a new whack-job book conspiracy theory came over my news feed the other day, and sucker though I am for any and all looney conspiracy theories, it immediately reminded me of NBC’s 1976 long, long telemovie, The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, where the real crime wasn’t the kidnapping, but Anthony Hopkins’ deliciously awful Emmy-winning performance.
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‘Mayflower: The Pilgrims’ Adventure’ (1979): Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Mayflower’s landing
Attention! Attention fellow American lockdown inmates!
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