CNN’s current series of documentaries about late-night television rekindled memories of working on the “Tonight Show” back when it was based in New York but shooting for three weeks in “beautiful Downtown Burbank,” as Johnny Carson joked. At 23 and new to the entertainment industry, I was taken aback to have the star appear at my desk and address me as “Sybil.” We’d never met yet he’d learned my name for what turned out to be our one interaction.
Being placed there by a temporary agency as secretary to the producer, Art Stark, was beyond exciting. I’d become a fan of the show when it was hosted by Jack Paar. Though my father would go to sleep after listening to records of Cantor Moishe Oysher and the comic Menasha Skulnik, my mother and I stayed up to see what the unpredictable Jack Paar might do. He treated the show like a confession booth, revealing intimacies, often about his daughter. Credited with creating the talk show format, he had a diverse mix of guests
Movie theaters reopen as LA County moves to red tier
BURBANK, Calif. - It was a busy Monday at the AMC 16 in Burbank.
Hundreds of movie-lovers in the first few hours of reopening came to do something they haven’t been able to do in a full year and that s to sit in the dark and watch a story play out on a big screen.
Some of the moviegoers waited 12 months to finally catch a movie at the Downtown Burbank theatre complex.
Iberia Brognus and her family love movies so they got their own inflatable screen. But when they got to the theatre on Monday, George and Iberia were so excited.
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Many indoor rinks have partially opening for specific limited uses, such as hockey team practices and figure-skating workouts, but all public skating opportunities are canceled because of coronavirus concerns.
Even the Fountain Valley Skating Center, a roller skating venue near Huntington Beach in Orange County, has closed its doors to public skating and rentals.
One exception is the seasonal ice skating rink at Paséa Hotel & Spa in Huntington Beach, built on the hotel lawn that butts up against the sand, so you can skate with an ocean view. Online reservations are required, and the cost is $30 for one hour of skating. Masks must be worn at all times, even while skating.
good evening. good day from los angeles. i first entered this building in the first year of msnbc, 1996, to do my first appearance as a political pundit from los angeles, which you now know was actually burbank. i ve also had more than my share of meetings with nbc entertainme entertainment executives in the building adjacent to this where i unsuccessfully pitched them new ideas for tv series. the nbc burbank campus and this building in particular hold many fond memories for those of us who have been lucky enough to work here and this building has been the source of some of our most wonderful collective memories in this country. thanks for the memory sunburns at shore and nights at singapore
you might have had a headache so thank you so much and that was, of course, bob hope in one of the best of clips showed on johnny carson s last night working in this building. this is my last night working in this building because nbc burbank is closing up shop here tomorrow and moving just down the road to the universal studios lot which is now, of course, the nbc universal lot. we are promised a brand-new state-of-the-art studio there but at first, anyway, it will be a studio with no memories. you are now watching the last nationally televised primetime program from nbc burbank. yes, it s come to this.