Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

Freelance writer specializing in comedy and the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum.

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George is Wrathful

How bizarre.The Seinfeld season 8 DVD boxset came through the post this morning. I'm a big fan of Seinfeld, and used to avidly watch it on BBC2 during the 90s, but I never saw much of the last two seasons due in no small part to erratic BBC scheduling. This evening Clare and I watched the first disc worth of episodes including season 8 opener - The Foundation - which I'd never seen before.By way of a set-up, the fiancée of self-proclaimed 'Lord of the Idiots' George Costanza died at the end of season 7 in a rather tasteless manner. [...]

Golf Stream

Lils has joined an after-school golf club at her infant school where she and her five year old pals will soon be learning the arcane arts of pitching, putting and wearing a Pringle v-neck. She's tremendously excited about it. Lils was talking to Clare and me about this, and I said, quite innocently: "Wow, Lils - at the age of five you're learning to do something that I've spent thirty-eight years trying to avoid.""What's that?" said Lils. "Work?"The line was delivered with precision comic timing. I was never that good.

Ricardo Montalbán, 1920-2009

Oh God, not again.Only a day after I wrote a post about the late Patrick McGoohan, I now find myself writing about another cherished actor who has sadly passed away. Like most unrepentant fanboys, I'll always remember Ricardo Montalbán for his portrayal of my favourite screen villain, Khan Noonien Singh. However disillusioned I might have become with the franchise over time, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan remains one of my favourite guilty pleasure movies, and that is due in no small part to Montalbán's incendiary performance.Montalbán played Khan on two occasions, in the 1982 movie and in the [...]

Patrick McGoohan, 1928-2009

It saddens me that we're only a couple of weeks into 2009 and already I find myself writing about the death of one of my cinematic heroes.Patrick McGoohan passed away after a short illness in his Los Angeles home yesterday. McGoohan, of course, will chiefly be remembered as the writer, co-creator, producer and star of the seminal, subversive and staggeringly brilliant 1960s TV show The Prisoner. As I've probably mentioned elsewhere, The Prisoner was, is and probably always will be one of my all-time favourite television shows and over the years I've watched the each of those 17 episodes - [...]

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