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The Little Drummer Boy

Posted December 18th 2008 10:15:43 pm by Jose
Categories: General

 

Here are two of my favorite versions of "The Little Drummer Boy."  

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The Petty Crimes Unit Episodes 1 & 2

Posted December 01st 2008 12:54:14 pm by Jose
Categories: General

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTdx8DE8jW8

  

What: The Petty Crimes Unit Episodes 1 & 2

When: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17

Where: The Showroom in Spartanburg

Admission: Free

The Petty Crimes Unit is an independently shot comedy series about a three-man police unit, specializing in petty crimes, searching for a rogue toaster.

The series began with Episode I, "Th3rd Degree," as an entry in the South Carolina Arts Commission's 2005 Toaster Film Festival. As one of the winners of the festival, the filmmakers decided to continue the production with a second episode, "The Shell of a Man." This chapter continues to focus on a rogue toaster's crime of burning breakfast and leaving a trail of charred crumbs in its wake. The toaster is a Wanted appliance and only one cop has the dough-nuts to take him down.

Captain SC (Benny Lee Smith) of the McClain County Police Department, a veteran of petty crime investigations, believes in truth, justice and a good pair of Ray-Bans.

The director of this venture is Brad Tinsley, a Clemson University graduate who studied at the New York Film Academy in Hollywood.

Benny Lee Smith, the lead, is Director of Public Relations at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte who has also appeared in numerous feature films including "Heavy Weights," "My Fellow Americans," and "Patch Adams."

Jose Franco, the film's producer, is the Entertainment Editor at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal and a film buff who has a weekly television spot on NewsChannel 7 discussing movies.

A short Q&A will follow the session.

Viewers' response:

"The best show about a troubled toaster ever!!!" -- Appliance Weekly

"After seeing this show, I was glazed and confused, totally. Could've just been the munchies, though." -- Shaun Pen, High on TV magazine

"I'm a cop and this series completely captures the depth and pain of what it's like to deal with a hardened criminal. I nearly cried, but  I am a man." -- Sgt. Rick Savage

"Crumby. What else do I  say?" -- Roger E--bert

"The most powerful viewing experience since The Shawshank Redemption." -- The Filmmakers

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Herald-Journal Entertainment Editor Jose Franco loves TV and watching DVDs on TV. As a kid, he watched as much TV as he could on his parents' black-and-white set with the bunny-rabbit antenna. On clear days, the family could watch ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS. He loved watching everything from "Good Times" and "Happy Days" to "The Waltons" and "Three's Company," from "Land of the Lost" to Porky Pig cartoons. Saturdays were spent watching "American Bandstand," "Soul Train" and a Saturday afternoon movie like "Creature from the Black Lagoon." He didn't get cable and color TV until college in the 1980s and was surprised to hear all the colorful words you could say on television. It was the birth of MTV and music videos. Over the years, his taste in television shows has expanded and become more refined, but he does admit to enjoying an occasional "Who's the Boss?" marathon. His favorite shows, at the moment, include "The Sopranos," "Weeds," "Nip/Tuck," "Big Brother," "Friday Night Lights," "Prison Break," "Lost," "Ugly Betty" and "Heroes." His Netflix list is filled with TV shows he's yet to watch such as "The Wire" and "House." Not enough hours in the day, he says. He loves TV so much that he even mourned when "Rome" and "Gilmore Girls" went off the air. And he thinks there's nothing better than sharing his thoughts on a favorite TV show around the watercooler at work.