When I was younger, I used to scour the cable guide to find out when Alfred Hitchcock Presents would be on. They usually aired well after my bedtime, so I’d ask my parents to set up the VCR for me, and then I’d eagerly watch them the next day.
I haven’t seen any of those shows in over 15 years, and am now thinking about buying a few of the box sets on DVD. The only problem is, I don’t know if the DVDs would be worth the price or not. Sometimes shows that I really enjoyed as a kid simply don’t have the same replay value now that I’m an adult, so I don’t want to end up wasting money here.
A few of the eps were outstanding, like the one where a woman murdered her husband with a frozen lamb chop, and then had it roasting in the oven by the time the police came to investigate. She served them dinner, thereby effectively disposing of the murder weapon.
However, there were a bunch of run-of-the-mill eps as well, where people killed their spouses in order to collect on large term life insurance policies or just out of sheer jealousy. I can see those kinds of plots on TV any old time, so why buy these DVDs?
Well, I think I’m going to put this purchase off for a while. There are a few other DVD box sets that I’m more confident about buying (House, M*A*S*H), so Hitch will have to wait for now!
As a fan of the FOX television show Bones, I decided that it would be fun to try reading one of the books that the series is based on. Before going in, I knew that the original Temperance Brennan in Kathy Reichs’ novels is vastly different from the Emily Deschanel portrayal on TV, and that the Booth character doesn’t appear at all. Moreover, I knew that the setting of the novels was not Washington, D.C., nor does Temperance assist the FBI with their investigations.
Another brand-new episode of Lost aired last night. This one was called “Kevin Johnson”, and as you might expect from the name, focused on what happened to Michael after he made that deal to free Ben and in exchange for a ticket off the island back in Season 2. 
I recently posted about how I’ve been watching Criminal Minds on DVD. I’m now halfway through Season 2, and have to say that I still like the show a lot. I’ve found, however, that I can’t really go on marathon viewing sessions with this one, simply because the subject matter is so dark and depressing that I have to take a break every once in a while.
There aren’t too many child actors that I like, but Freddie Highmore is definitely one of them. I first noticed Freddie in the 2004 film Finding Neverland where he played the boy who inspired J.M. Barrie to write Peter Pan. I thought Highmore was brilliant in that movie, so I began following his career more closely and now try to see as many of his films as possible.
For every superstar pro football player who makes it to NFL and pulls down multi-million dollar salaries for years, there are countless third-string journeymen who knock about the league accepting short-term contracts with any team that will have them. These are the guys who were top athletes in high school, and just good enough in college that pro teams decided to give them a look. Though they know they’ll never have a Hall of Fame career, they’re not quite willing to give up the dream yet.
When my husband went on a business trip to Texas last year, his associates took him to a professional rodeo in Mesquite. Jerry had never been to a rodeo before, and was at first a bit skeptical about how the event would turn out. But he ended up having an absolute blast there, so now he’s trying to convince me to go with him next time.
I just read that film director Anthony Minghella died early this morning in a London hospital at the age of 54. According to early reports, he apparently suffered a brain hemorrhage today, one week after having surgery for tonsil/throat cancer. The surgery was viewed as pretty routine, and one news source reported that Minghella appeared to have come out of it rather well, so the director’s death was definitely a shock.