On the night of December 19, I watched the first and second installments of History Channel’s new, 3-part show on the Roswell controversy of July 1947. Under the overall banner of “History’s Greatest Mysteries,” part-3 will be shown next weekend. Of course, the big question that was on my mind was this: will there be anything new? Well, in one sense, there was. It was the insertion into the story of an old diary. Frankly, though, I didn’t see anything particularly intriguing, amazing, or jaw-dropping about it. There was a lot of old footage (primarily interviews from the 1980s). The use of drones came into the story, as did a look at what has become known as the “Ramey Memo” (you can find the whole, controversial story at this link). Code experts were brought in. There was a bit of digging and probing on the site of the crash itself. In other words, there really wasn’t much that could be seen as new or of major value. There’s a very good reason for this. I’ll get
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Saturday, Dec. 26
Smallfoot (7 p.m., TOON) Based on an unpublished children s book by Sergio Pablos, this charming 2018 computer-animated musical comedy from director Karey Kirkpatrick follows a band of Yeti whose peaceful life in the Himalayas is disrupted when they encounter a human airplane pilot (voice by Jack Quaid) whose plane has crashed. They re stunned because, of course, up until now they thought humans were mythical creatures. The large voice cast also includes Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common, LeBron James and Gina Rodriguez.
Casablanca (8 p.m., TCM) Play it once, Sam. For old times sake. An exiled and bitter American (Humphrey Bogart) running a popular nightclub in Casablanca can t help but fall in love again with his one-time sweetheart (Ingrid Bergman) in this 1942 film that is one of the true Hollywood classics. He decides to use stolen documents to escape Nazi-occupied Morocco with her, but things don t go as planned. Horror-film ico
Garth Brooks scored one of the most important hits of his career with Friends in Low Places in 1990, and in an episode of
Music s Greatest Mysteries on AXS TV, songwriter Earl Bud Lee opens up about a story about the track that s been making the rounds in Nashville for years.
Lee and Dewanye Blackwell co-wrote the song, and they pitched it to Brooks when he was a young and unknown singer. When he cut it and released it as the lead single from his sophomore album,
No Fences, Friends in Low Places became a career-changing song for Brooks, spending four weeks at No. 1 and winning Single of the Year honors at both the ACM and CMA Awards.
Garth Brooks scored one of the most important hits of his career with Friends in Low Places in 1990, and in an upcoming episode of
Music s Greatest Mysteries on AXS TV, songwriter Earl Bud Lee opens up about a story that s been making the rounds in Nashville for years.
Lee and Dewanye Blackwell co-wrote the song, and they pitched it to Brooks when he was a young and unknown singer. He cut it and released it as the lead single from his sophomore album,
No Fences, and Friends in Low Places became a career-changing song for Brooks, spending four weeks at No. 1 and winning Single of the Year honors at both the ACM and CMA Awards.