Retroality.TV with Chris Mann
Retroality's Chris Mann
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- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Title
- Editor and founder
- Company
- http://Retroality.TV
- Bio
- Retroality.TV editor and founder Chris Mann is a freelance entertainment journalist, art director and TV book author. His "Three's Company" tell-all "Come and Knock on Our Door" led to NBC's hit telefilm "Three's Company: Behind the Camera," for which Chris served as consulting producer.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Why Suzanne Somers + Joyce
DeWitt = Oprah's teaching
moment
February 09, 2012 09:04PM - Soaprah: Ryan's hope amidst
claims he violated Farrah's
will
June 24, 2011 11:16PM - CBS Turning a Blind Eye to
Sheen Domestic Abuse Guilty
Plea?
June 08, 2010 07:53AM - Why Betty White Makes a Grown
Man Cry
May 09, 2010 07:37AM - Can Charlie's Angels achieve
justice for "Farrah's Story"?
January 25, 2010 05:03AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks,
SPAMhead!!!”
July 24, 2010 10:27PM - “Thank you all so much
for your thoughtful comments.
The
dialogue about this
topic…”
November 15, 2009 09:46PM - “Thank you!!! Norman is a
cool place ... some of my
high
school friends went to
co…”
November 15, 2009 08:01PM - “Hey again! So glad you
enjoyed this post ... but
actually it
was written by a
dea…”
November 15, 2009 07:51PM - “You are too kind,
marnehb! I'm thrilled you
enjoyed this post
... oh, how
I miss…”
November 15, 2009 07:42PM
Retroality's Chris Mann's Links
Why Suzanne Somers + Joyce DeWitt = Oprah's teaching moment
Re-Joycing in the Somers time ... O, My God, you can almost
hear Oprah yell, "THREEEEEE'S COMPAAAAAAAAAANY!"
News analysis
By Chris Mann
Last week, two sixtysomething Seventies sitcom stars—one still girl-next-door-lovely, the other lea
… Read full post »Soaprah: Ryan's hope amidst claims he violated Farrah's will
Outgoing daytime doyenne Oprah Winfrey's unwillingness to save Agnes Nixon's ABC soap institutions All My Children and One Life to Live took on multiple levels of irony this month with the arrival of her cable network's heavily-touted serializ/
… Read full post »CBS Turning a Blind Eye to Sheen Domestic Abuse Guilty Plea?
Why Betty White Makes a Grown Man Cry
An oh-so-Live Betty White moved me to tears this Saturday Night. And not just in a laughed-so-hard-I-cried kind of way.
Oh, no. This was far more profound: I teared up in a please-don't-take-my-Betty-White-away way. (As in, you are my… Read full post »
Can Charlie's Angels achieve justice for "Farrah's Story"?
Kate Jackson defends producer sued Friday by Farrah Fawcett estate.
The angels don't seem to be smiling down on Ryan O'Neal of late.
Seven months after losing longtime girlfriend Farrah Fawcett, the Love Story star watched helplessly as their son, Redmond, was arrested—sadly, yet again&/… Read full post »
Exclusive: The Reality Behind "Farrah's Story," Ryan O'Neal
Farrah Fawcett left Ryan O'Neal out of her will, while leaving her "secret lover" Greg Lott—whom O'Neal cut out of Fawcett's life in April—$100K. In September, Farrah's Story producer and longtime Fawcett friend/business partner Craig Nevius told me O'Neal also cut him out of Fawc… Read full post »
Suzanne Somers has a number-one book. And all hell is breaking
loose.
For good reason. The media-savvy, self-branding celebrity
poet-turned-actress/entertainer-turned-author/entrepreneur-turned-home
shopping mogul/ThighMaster millionaire-turned-alternative health
guru’s latest tome, Kno… Read full post »
Cancer Could Care Less If You're Rich or Famous
Guest Shot
By Daphne Stuart
The chart below lists celebrities (shown in red type) and non-celebrities (shown in blue type) who have all been diagnosed with cancer. (Assumed names and approximated ages are used to protect the identities of the non-famous.) Can you find a pattern in the/…
Separated at birth? Hailey Glassman and SNL's Cheri Oteri
Rod Roddy battled breast, colon cancer—and Bob Barker's ego?
The larger-than-life voice behind the immortal catch phrase "Come on down!" from 1986 until his death, Roddy was diagnosed with colon cancer on—of a…
Ellen DeGeneres' Steely Miracle Man Shares His "Iron Heart"
Every weekday at 11 a.m., Welcome, Maryland resident Brian Boyle managed to tilt his head back and look beyond what should have been his deathbed. In a boxy beacon twinkling above a sea of IVs and tubes, loudly churning machines and his parents' deafening despair, Ellen DeGeneres helped… Read full post »
Top 10 Bob Barker-esque Things David Letterman Shouldn't Do
Forget legions of lawyers, publicists, focus groups, gossipmongers, news pundits, crisis management teams and Miss Cleo. CBS's King of Late Night need only look to CBS's former (and nine-times-sued) King of Daytime to see how NOT to navigate his first TV sex scandal.
Fifteen years ag…
Jon, you ignorant slut: Why he should rethink "Kate Plus 8"
What I wouldn't give for Dan Aykroyd to tie up Larry King,
hijack his CNN anchor chair and deliver this apparently apt
one-liner to the whiny-assed, self-involved, axe-grinding,
(allegedly) ass-grabbing, globe-trotting, douche-bagging worse half
of Kate Gosselin.
As much as I've tried to avoid the cra… Read full post »
Can Suzanne Somers channel Farrah's Story's voice of change?
Media-shrewd actress-turned-bestselling author Suzanne Somers last
week outraged many Americans—including the equally vocal
Whoopi Goldberg,
who just ripped her on The
View—with her latest, publicity-magnetizing
comment, which goes something like this: Chemotherapy poisoned the
lat… Read full post »
Amateur 'Hour': How the Exhibitionist Bradys Altered Reality
By Chris Mann
Decades before the tone-deaf William Hung, awkwardly gyrating
Taylor Hicks and sexually ambiguous Adam Lambert melded karaoke
hell, Caucasian Soul Train and glam-rockin’ musical
theater into one prime time, prima donna destination, one painfully
rhythmless suburban… Read full post »
The King & Miss Munroe: Fractured Beings, Unbreakable Icons
As a starstruck Oklahoma kid whose life went from black and white to Technicolor during my summer pilgrimages to L.A. in the late '70s and '80s, I all-too-frequently frowned at the sepia images of Elvis and Marilyn that swallowed every square inch of Hollywood Boulevard and the nostalgic nation's col… Read full post »
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