He was the center of the show, keeping the radio station going. IRL he and Loni Anderson had a really hot ‘thing’ together. However, she eventually met and hooked up with Burt Reynolds (and what a disaster that was, I think he’s not only bipolar, but a bipolar jerk).
It is my unsway-able opinion that Burt Reynolds, jealous and one of the biggest noises in show biz, did something to cut short Gary Sandy’s career. He never did anything much after that, a couple of bit parts in movies and a lot of stage work. Which isn’t ‘nothing’. He was in a revival of ‘The Music Man’ and I think ‘Chicago’. No more tv, though.
In retrospect, I cringe at my taste. I know that he’s respected in some quarters and is collectible, but the art is so “cut-rate salon/manicure shop decor” to me now.
At least it wasn’t Thomas “Painter of Light” Kincaid stuff.
I wonder sometimes if some of this feeling is due to the fact that people forget how ground-breaking a particular TV show, movie, art style, etc. was at the time, and now it seems cheesy due to lots of imitators.
Not saying I’m putting Nagel in this category, mind you, but for those who weren’t around when things like Hill Street Blues started, it’s hard to get one’s mind around just how much of a breath of fresh air they were compared to what they had to compete with (HSB was one of, if not the, first TV dramas to use ongoing, interconnected story arcs in a series instead of single-serving episodes, but now, of course, everybody is doing that).
Do the MeTV episodes use the original music, or the “replacement” music that’s on the DVDs? That could have something to do with it.
Here’s a theory; when you were younger, you tended to watch, or at least remember, just the “good” episodes of shows. For example, a lot of stations would air just the “Barney” episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, but now, you get the entire series, including the “Warren” ones.
Strangely enough, I remember what it was pretty much the other way around; I watched Gomer Pyle, USMC in syndication for years without ever knowing that the black and white episodes even existed.
I remember once being impressed with the film Natural Born Killers. I was college-aged or thereabouts. I thought it was so deep, man. Then I hadn’t seen it for about five years, tried watching it again and it was just unwatchable. I couldn’t imagine what I ever saw in it.
These days, I can get a little amusement out of how Micky Knox and Zombieland’s Tallahassee are essentially the same character aside from one being evil and the other being good.
I remember seeing Flash Gordon when it first came out it theatres. I thought it was awesome. I even remember telling my friends at school that they NEED to see it and described it as “Like Star Wars but way better”.
I really loved Aerosmith’s comeback era in the early 90s when I was in junior high. “Eat the Rich” and that pierced cow udder was like, the coolest. It helped that I could share my appreciation with my parents, too, like when I dug out their old vinyl copy of Toys in the Attic. Made me feel like a character from Dazed and Confused, another group of losers I mistakenly looked up to in my preteen years.
Sometime before Armageddon came out (and that awful “Pink” song), I realized how cringeworthy Aerosmith’s whole shtick was. I can still appreciate some of their 70s work, and I wouldn’t say I’m embarrassed exactly. But Aerosmith was a big part of my life for a couple years, and looking back, I don’t know what the hell I was thinking. It was out of character for me, and it was exactly the sort of manufactured, cheesy corporate rock Nirvana (another band I loved at the same time, and still appreciate) was railing against.
See my username? Yup, that’s right. Back in my teens, I was a fan of Piers Anthony’s writings-- Not just the Incarnations series, but even Xanth as well. I started using the name “Chronos” online back then, and have since.
I don’t regret anything I’ve ever liked. There’s loads of that stuff I don’t like all that much now of course. Embarrassment doesn’t even figure. Why would it?
That’s how I feel: my tastes have changed, but that doesn’t mean I’m embarrassed.
However, there are some things I used to like that make me uncomfortable now because they have outdated portrayals of race, gender, sexuality, etc. The first thing I thought of was the scene in the movie “All of Me” where Steve Martin is trying to explain to the guru “put Edwina back in the bowl”. I thought that was hilarious as a kid, but now it just seems stupid with an insulting quasi-“Indian” accent. I can think of some blaxploitation movies that I used to laugh at (not with) as a young guy, too. And comedies with a flaming homo character? Oy.