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Modeling On TV (again)

Anyone else watch NYPD Blue last night? In the jerky, 'pan and zoom' camera techniques employed in the show, it was a little hard to see but I noticed... A retired detective and his wife were roughed up and robbed by some thugs/skells and, when interviewing the wife in their apartment, there's a workbench in the background with armor models on it. I noticed what looked like a Tamiya Panther boxtop and the model on the bench with another, larger (1/25th?) model nearby. Also, one of the items stolen was a signed letter from Gen. Patton obtained from an online auction. Later in the show, the retiree tells Sipowicz he should get a pastime or hobby for his own retirement... Words to live by!

Frank Kranick

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Francis X. Kranick, Jr.
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Related but a little off topic...

I was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland last week and they had a new exhibit on "Teen Pop Idols". This included groups from the '50s through today (e.g. Bobby Sherman, New Kids on The Block, Britney Spears). There was a little display covering The Monkees and in it was the 1960s MPC Monkeemobile kit box. I've got the recent AMT reissue but haven't seen the original box in over 30 years. I got teary-eyed...

If you ever find yourself in Cleveland, you owe yourself a visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum!

Martin

BTW: In the gift shop, they were selling an original MPC "Raiders Coach" (Paul Revere and The Raiders) for $125. I think this same kit is currently available from AMT for about $14.

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Martin

I'm still trying to figure out what Cleveland has to do with Rock n' Roll that it got a hall of fame located there.

RLM

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RLM

That's where it pretty much began when a white DJ named Alan Freed at WJW in Cleveland began spinning black R&B music to his white audience. Rather than refer to the music as Rhythm & Blues, he coined the phrase "Rock and Roll" to help slip under the radar of the thought police.

WmB

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WmB

Do you remember Murray the K , Alan Freed , and high energy? It's the end , the end of the 70's. It's the end , the end of the century.

WmB wrote:

Cleveland began

as Rhythm &

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dave999

128 by the power lines massachusets in the cold and dark i'm in love with the modern world i got the radio on.
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When you get out of the hospital let me back into your life...

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Rufus

they're waiting for you at bellview with an oxygen mask i could give it all to you if only you would ask...

(arrrgggh, quoted springsteen, i'm not cool anymore. help me rufus!)

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