{"id":4902,"date":"2009-08-12T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2010-02-10T19:53:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T01:53:58","slug":"book-report-tv-close-ups-by-peggy-herz-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/book-report-tv-close-ups-by-peggy-herz-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: TV Close-Ups by Peggy Herz (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I really did read an elementary school fanbook about television shows on television in the early 1970s.  This book talks about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gary Burghoff on <i>M*A*S*H<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Michael Landon on <i>Little House on the Prairie<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Darren McGavin on <i>Nightstalker<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Patti Cahoon on <i>Apple&#8217;s Way<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Freddie Prinze on <i>Chico and the Man<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Kurt Russell on <i>The New Land<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Valerie Harper on <i>Rhoda<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Clifton Davis on <i>That&#8217;s My Mama<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Ron Howard on <i>Happy Days<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Angie Dickinson on <i>Police Woman<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Roddy MacDowall on <i>Planet of the Apes<\/i> (the television series).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Looking at that list, I have only seen 3 or 4 of the series; most were not even in syndication from the time I remember watching television.  Some I remember from other roles.  Some I know of only because his son starred in the classic film <i>Wing Commander<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> Each little snippet tells a heartwarming story about the actor\/actress, the causes he\/she favors, and the hard road to stardom.<\/p>\n<p> At this snapshot moment in time, these celebrities are at the top of their games and, in many cases, their careers.  35 years later, we don&#8217;t remember most of them.  Sadly, ten years after the book appeared, we didn&#8217;t remember most of them.<\/p>\n<p> This fits in well with the stoic works of Marcus Aurelius, which warns about the fleeting nature of fame.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=B000KKB054\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I really did read an elementary school fanbook about television shows on television in the early 1970s. This book talks about: Gary Burghoff on M*A*S*H Michael Landon on Little House on the Prairie Darren McGavin on Nightstalker Patti Cahoon on Apple&#8217;s Way Freddie Prinze on Chico and the Man Kurt Russell on The New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/5394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}