The Anthony Show with the Lovely Alicia

The Bob Cummings Show Starring Bob Cummings

2011-04-21T07:58:00.000-07:00

I was going to start a blog wit this title. It's was the best title I could think of to one of the best 30-min comedies that ever existed.

"The People's Choice" with Jackie Copper is the first television show I can remember seeing. I think he lived in a trailer and the show was seen through the eyes of his sad-eyed floppy-eared dog, Cleo.

Bob Cummings was both a comic and dramatic actor using the name "Robert Cummings" when he was in a Hitchcock film or the like.

Why was this a great show?

First of all, It's Bob Cummings, the smoothest comic actor ever. he was a photgrapher surrounded by gorgeous models.

Then there was Joi La, a model/actress that more than interested me when I was around 12 and "coming of age". She also played the loving wife of Lester Flatt or Earl Scruggs in "The Beverly Hillbilles" when the boys came to town for a hoe-down with the Clampetts et al. I stil check my TV listings for an appearance by her...:)

Bob was a bachelor living with his sister and her son, the son played by Dwayne Hicman who went on to play Dobie Gillis, another great show of all time that explored various techniques in story telling and also featured Bob Denver (Of "Gilligan's Island"), Tuesday Weld, and Warren Beatty who co-starred in the great episode "Top-Fist".

As for the ladies, there was Shultzie, his secretary played by whoever it was that went on to play "Alice" in "The Brady Bunch", and "Miss Jane Hathawya"....:)

That's all for now...my daughter wants to play checkers...

2011-04-21T07:36:00.000-07:00

I am back!

I tried Facebook, but am tired being part of a social experiment. Moreover, Isn't that the way that "The Matrix" started, with machines being our....friends? I hate to think that that jackass Mrk Zzzwhatever his name is...has anything to do with me or my life.

I am watching what is going on there and it is like bees swarming around a hive. Facebook being something that swarm to and cannot be too far away from. I am thinking that keeping up with relationships should be harder than a 'poke'.

What are they poking me with anyway?

So...I am back here.

And I am on SecondLife, which is kind of interesting and better for chats and a new kind of digitized socializing that actually takes work, and a desire to make it work.

Much, much, much, much, much, much more to follow...:)

Me.l

Podcast #7: The Bob Anello Story

2005-09-21T13:58:00.000-07:00

Podcast #7: The Bob Anello Story ...Get it HERE!

WE have had no time to do anything.

We use to scoff...(well, I did, Alicia did not), but now I get it. Baby = no time and very little " I will do what I feel like doing time or money."

This new update features pictures of the and a host of others, including the sunflowers that Alicia has been photographing. We are updating the wall outside of the bathroom that use to have pictures of the guests at our wedding with picts of friends and relatives holding sunflowers...

Got a picture of a sunflower? Send it to us so we can collect them for Addease (her nickname based on my father's advice for any person in any situation.

AND...Alicia and I are getting our next podcast ready and we need someone to interview and sing karaoke. Like INXS, the houseband needs a singer, and the podcast needs a Mark Burnett.

FINALLY...This podcast features a 38 year old presentation of "The Bob Anello Story" I think it is safe to say this groundbreaking recording set the groundwork for today's podcasts. It was made with a 4-track reel-to-reel, three friends, the opening sounds of "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" and the Stones' "Got Live if You Want It!", an old recording booth record that Bob Anello made in the 1940's, and some acapella recordings he made while sitting on the livingroom floor figuring out what he could do with his son's tape recorder that he got him as an 8th grade graduation present.

It was presented to him on Christmas day in something like 1968 while he was in traction at St Joseph's Hospital.

It made him smile.

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The Nativity

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Once again, Mother Anello

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Mother Anello with the Addease

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the kid...

2005-09-21T13:55:00.001-07:00

a third SunFlower (

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another sunflower...

2005-09-21T13:54:00.001-07:00

Alicia's Sunflower #1

2005-09-21T13:54:00.000-07:00

Emily and Addie

Podcast the 6th!

2005-08-22T10:29:00.000-07:00

Podcast #6: Get it here!

Adelaide is in the background on this one. It is about two in the morning and Alicia is now on Adelaide time. Pictures of the girl-child coming soon!

In this jelly-packed podcast we chat about the the impendinf visit of Hurricane Emily! Also on the podcast Mary Lou and Kelly from Wegmans! Wee wrap it up with a post war-time song, contemporary of Berlin, Rogers, and Porter.

We are not going to be put-off if you do not play this...we know it is even more annoying than those dittoed Xmas letters people send, though I will admit I actually love reading them, sort of like letters from Mrs. Father Knows Best.

August 20th, 2005

Podcast #5 - Pre-parents!http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

2005-08-05T13:07:00.000-07:00

August 3, 2005

Podcast #5: Download it!!

Mellow Greetings Yookie-Dookies!

This is the podcast that was suppose to go up minutes before Alicia came downstairs to tell me that she needed me to do my part in all of this, that is, to get her to the hopital! She was composed enough to sing with me, though, and since the band was here she joined me in one of our favorite numbers!

Cathy Osinski is our featured guest and she talks to us about theater and the show she is currently in!

Moreover...you can actually hear us this time!

Thanks to Mike O'Connor at the unaptly named Sex and Podcasting who helped me get this podcast to stream...this is going to make the school year all the more fun!

July 30 Part II : She is born.

2005-07-30T23:54:00.000-07:00

Like the flower peeking into her room, Adelaide Sunflower Anello was born at 4:30 PM.

I was assisited in the delivery by Drs. Greenwald and Waldman and a host of nurses
.
Below are some of Addy's first pictures.

Adelaide Sunflower gets her name three ways...
Adelaide: named after Dr. Adel Bozorgzadeh, my transplant doctor who looked after me and my family and who is one of those who made this possible...(and of course there is a Broadway reference!)

Sunflower: named because of advice that my father gave when I was a small boy, not to pick something out of the garden until you know what it is because it can become something special.

Emily...your 'status' has finally changed. Is that ok?

We love you all,

The Anellos

Adelaide...

...her first pictures...

...ever...

...smile...

July 31, 2005

July 30, 2005 : The wait continues!

2005-07-30T02:47:00.000-07:00

It is Saturady morning, July 30, 2005, and we are still at St Joseph's in Syracuse awaiting the birth of Baby Doe!

We have been up most of the night...at least Alicia has. I finally slept after they gave her an epidural since the labor has gone so long.

Picts tomorrow!

Hi Emily!

Still waiting...

2005-07-25T12:29:00.000-07:00

July 24th, 2005

It is Monday and we are still waiting for Baby Doe. Our piano has arrived before her...

Stacy is hoping that she is born on August first so that we can celebrate her birthday with my godson, Nathan. That would be something...the same birthdate for Nathan and Adelaide! (Get it?)

The Lovely Farrin just called to wish us well...Keep those calls coming! Be assured that we do not screen ANYONE on this list!

...the first pict is the sunflower outside of Baby Doe's room...looking directly into it; the second
is the sunflower from the room

...the backyard...without ANY help from the Preganat Alicia

...the front of the house

Stunning first photos to come soon!!!

Podcast #3 - July 22, 2005

2005-07-23T03:45:00.000-07:00

Podcast #3: Get it here!

Thi sis the second attempt at this show.We are clearly having trouble with mics and static. But...we are learning! Alicia and I are working on the format and trying our best to book the most interesting guests for our growing and discerning audience!

In case you are wondering the kid is not here yet! A huge self-seeded sunflower just bloomed directly in front of the kid's window.

Today's guests include the lovely Jennifer Waters, an acupuncturist who gets right to the point with her rendition of Aretha Franklin's "Respect". She is backed by a willng Lauren and a just as unwilling Britney.

Future podcasts will feature photos a perhaps short featurettes of our guests, so keep watching!

And of course, keep those emails coming and feel free to post your comments on this blog!

Hi Emily!

The Second Podcast : We are born.

2005-07-19T04:59:00.000-07:00

Our first podcast together!

Podcast #2
Anthony and Alicia talk about what they will do this weekend! Anthony talks about summer movies and really tells it like it is! Anthony is joined by the band for a closing song!
And Alicia can do nothing to stop him!