"It took him 28 years to win the Oscar and it's only gonna take him one race to become a winner in the Winston Cup"
Entertainment Tonight on child actor Frankie Muniz officially entering NASCAR after his Best Supporting Actor Oscar win for Rainbow Warrior, the Jeff Gordon Story following a...
It would definitely require a Pre-1900 PoD I think, so this may be the wrong forum. Perhaps a "Successful Reconstruction" TL with two or more southern states dominated by a Freeman/Scalawag/Carpetbagger Republican coalition. At a bare minimum some sort of Jim Crow situation where only white land...
Today brings us full circle, one week, one TLIAW. The Mrs. and I thank you all for your support and feedback. To the "old timers" who were there through the original A Hippie in the House of Mouse to the new names and faces that started here with Carpenter's Hammer, I and we greatly appreciate...
Clip: Karen, looking older and fuller, leads a camera crew through a modest living room scattered with toys, many of them lined up in perfect rows.
Karen: And here’s where we live most of our lives, as you (laughs) can probably see!
Heavens to Betsy’s “I Wanna’ Be a Karen,” a song modeled on...
Yes, I left a few off the table. I largely overlooked L7 for the same reason as Hole: I've been trained by the Long Plastic Hallway to classify them under "Grunge", which is doubly ludicrous given how much overlap there is there. I mean Tobi Vale was mentioned as a "muse" for Kurt Cobain and...
Clip: The Carpenters performing “Superstar”
Title Card:
You Said you’d be Coming Back this Way Again, Baby
[Clip Ends]
Stills and footage from Karen at this time, with her children and husband and their modest home on Long Island. “Superstar” continued to play in the background.
Narrator...
And I appreciate them all! I saw you were already posting some in the Hensonverse Images thread.
Yep, and that avenue is open your more from you or others. Hensonverse is a shared sandbox. Just don't violate Canon!
It depends on if any more such ideas strike. Won't rule it out, won't guarantee...
Title Card:
The Money's in the Basement
Clip: VCR footage of a dark basement club. Debbie Harry sings “The Hardest Part” while Karen hammers on the drums behind her
Narrator: Debborah Harry, front woman of the experimental sometimes-Punk band Blondie, met Karen backstage at a West Berlin...
No judgement on the Idol, man! I love Billy Idol. "White Wedding" is one of my favorites. The video is epic.
Mostly that's an indication of the way the tastes are changing.
David Bowie would definitely like her new style, particularly where she goes next. He was all about Reinvention and...
Yes, I can see the ambiguity. I added a link to the wiki page and italicized the name (1999), which I originally had but it got lost in the posting, to try and make clear I meant his album named "1999" from 1982.
Stills and video footage of Karen in the early-to-mid-eighties as Ramones’s “Blitzkrieg Bop (Hey Ho Let’s Go)” plays.
Narrator: Karen Carpenter was feeling better than she had in months. The brief stand-in for D.H. Peligro on Late Night had reawakened her passion for performance. Her Manager...
Alas Bernie will be playing the part of "Sir Not Appearing in this Timeline". As fun as he is to write for, no real place for him that wouldn't be forced.
Thank you for the kind words, and great to have you aboard again, WHC.
Some good predictions there, MNM.
And...your ironic timing could...
[Fade In]
Sirens and the sound of emergency dispatch.
Clip: Dan Rather behind a news desk
Dan Rather: Tragedy in a Las Vegas hotel room as Richard Carpenter, one half of the Grammy winning duo The Carpenters, was found dead from a suspected drug overdose…
Sound fades out. Sad instrumental...