Podcasts about Ring Lardner

A Funny MondayFirst a look at this day in History.Then The Campbells Playhouse starring Orson Welles, originally broadcast March 24, 1940, 85 years ago, June Moon starring Jack Benny.  The program features the funny story about a song writer from Schenectady who arrives in New York with plans to conquer Tin Pan Alley. Jack manages to get in a remark about Fred Allen. The story is based on a story by Ring Lardner titled, "Some Like Them Cold."Followed by A Day in the Life of Dennis Day, originally broadcast March 24, 1948, 77 years ago,  Weaverville Land Grab.  Dennis buys and runs a taxicab. He that discovers one of his passengers plans to take over the entire town. Then Abbott and Costello, originally broadcast March 24, 1949, 76 years ago, A Sam Shovel Mystery. The boys do a "Sam Shovel" mystery, "The Case Of The Man Who Burned His Sweetheart's Body In The Fireplace," or "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm." Finally Claudia, originally broadcast March 24, 1949, 76 years ago, Roger's Surprise.   Telling Mama the news. But who bought the land?Thanks to Sean for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamFind the Family Fallout Shelter Booklet Here: https://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/the_family_fallout_shelter_1959.pdfhttps://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/fallout-shelter-handbook-1962.htmlAnd more about the Survive-all Fallout Sheltershttps://conelrad.blogspot.com/2010/09/mad-men-meet-mad-survive-all-shelter.html

Dana and Tom with returning guest, Adam Vanderwerff, discuss M*A*S*H (1970): directed by Robert Altman, written by Ring Lardner, Jr., music by Johnny Mandel, starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, and Robert Duvall.Plot Summary: M*A*S*H is a sharp, irreverent satire that reimagines the war film as a chaotic and darkly comedic theater of absurdity. Set in a mobile army surgical hospital during the Korean War, the film follows the misadventures of surgeons Hawkeye Pierce (Donald Sutherland) and Trapper John McIntyre (Elliott Gould), whose antics clash with the rigid military hierarchy.The film's freewheeling ensemble style captures the camaraderie and anarchy of a unit forced to find humor amidst the horrors of war. With its anti-authoritarian ethos and whip-smart dialogue, the film critiques the machinery of war and conformity without sermonizing. The overlapping conversations, naturalistic performances, and subversive tone make M*A*S*H both a product of its era and a timeless commentary on the absurdities of human conflict.Guest:Adam Vanderwerff (Duncan Disability Law)Previous Episodes: Office Space (1999), Ghostbusters (1984)Chapters:00:00 Introduction to MASH and Its Legacy03:56 Relationship(s) with M*A*S*H08:02 What is M*A*S*H About?12:42 Cultural Impact of M*A*S*H18:57 Impact of First F-Bomb in Cinema History?21:09 Plot Summary for M*A*S*H22:22 Did You Know?24:51 First Break26:22 Best Performance(s)32:50 Best/Favorite/Indelible Scene(s)38:43 Second Break39:53 In Memoriam42:08 Best/Funniest Lines43:47 The Stanley Rubric - Legacy48:19 The Stanley Rubric - Impact/Significance49:01 The Stanley Rubric - Novelty52:57 The Stanley Rubric - Classicness58:57 The Stanley Rubric - Rewatchability01:01:59 The Stanley Rubric - Audience Score and Final Total01:03:12 Remaining Questions for M*A*S*H01:10:45 Thank You to Our Guest and Final Thoughts01:15:42 CreditsYou can also find this episode in full video on YouTube.You can now follow us on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, or TikTok (@gmoatpodcast).For more on the episode, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/m-a-s-h-1970-ft-adam-vanderwerffFor the entire rankings list so far, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/greatest-movie-of-all-time-listKeywords:MASH, film analysis, cultural impact, legacy, comedy, war film, character performances, podcast, movie review, Donald Sutherland, Robert Altman, Robert Duvall, Elliot Gould, Tom SkerittRonny Duncan Studios

Director:  Robert Altman Producer:  Ingo Preminger Screenplay:  Ring Lardner, Jr. Photography:  Harold E. Stine Music:  Johnny Mandel Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 86%/Audience: 83%

Lux Radio Theatre | Alibi Ike (Joe E. Brown, Helen Chandler) || 1937-04-26 Magnificent Obsession (Robert Taylor, Irene Dunne) || April 19, 1937; April 26, 1937Movie info -- Alibi Ike is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland and William Frawley. Based on the short story of the same name by Ring Lardner, first published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 31, 1915, the film is about an ace baseball player nicknamed "Alibi Ike" for his penchant for making up excuses. Lardner is said to have patterned the character after baseball player King Cole.Plot -- A melodrama about a man who always wanted to be a doctor, and the blind woman he loves. After the story, Dr. Lloyd Douglas, author of the story, is interviewed from New York. Irene Dunne sings "The Folks Who Live On The Hill" during her curtain call.: : : : :My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- SCI FI x HORROR -- COMEDY x FUNNY HA HA -- VARIETY X ARMED FORCES -- THE COMPLETE ORSON WELLESSubscribing is free and you'll receive new post notifications. Also, if you have a moment, please give a 4-5 star rating and/or write a 1-2 sentence positive review on your preferred service -- that would help me a lot.Thank you for your support.https://otr.duane.media | Instagram @duane.otr#dramaclassics #oldtimeradio #otr #radiotheater #radioclassics #luxradio #cecilbdemille #gunsmoke #oldtimeradioclassics #classicradio #crimeclassics #duaneotr:::: :

Events that happened on November 6 This Day in Baseball history. November 6 , 1887 Walter Johnson was born on this day in 1887. Considered by many to be the greatest right-hander in baseball history, Johnson was the hardest thrower of his time. He was a phenomenally successful pitcher on often terrible Washington Senators' teams. As a veteran, he anchored the only Senators' World Series winning club, in 1924. He and Christy Mathewson were the first pitchers inducted into the Hall of Fame. He was known as the “Big Train” and in later years, upon seeing Bob Feller throw his hard one, Johnson admitted that he had thrown harder in his day. Johnson is the greatest player to ever play for the Washington Senators, debuting on August 2, 1907, against the Detroit Tigers and Ty Cobb. “He's got a gun concealed about his person. They can't tell me he throws them balls with his arm.” – Famed writer Ring Lardner wrote of JohnsonSam Rice tells the truth about game 3 of the 1925 World Series - On November 6, 1974, the contents of a letter written by the late Sam Rice to the Hall of Fame are revealed in Cooperstown, New York. In the letter, Rice, who had instructed the letter be opened after his death, says that he did successfully make a disputed catch in the 1925 World Series.Bud Selig goes toe to toe with the players association - November 6, 2001 — Denying it's a negotiating ploy, major league owners give commissioner Bud Selig the authority to “begin the process” of eliminating two ‘to be announced' teams by a 28-2 vote. Donald Fehr, the Players Association executive director, calls the action of possibly eliminating the Expos, Twins, or Marlins most imprudent and unfortunate, and the worst manner in which to begin the process of negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. We had hoped that we were in a new era, one that would see a much better relationship between players and owners. Today's announcement is a severe blow to such hopes.November 6, 1950, Branch Rickey signs a five-year contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates after selling his 25 per cent interest in the Brooklyn Dodgers' franchise. On October 26, Rickey had resigned as Brooklyn's president, giving way to Walter O'Malley. Rickey will serve as the Pirates' general manager and executive vice-president. The ‘Mahatma's' magic doesn't seem to work, as the Bucs will compile a 269-501 record (.349) during his tenure in Pittsburgh.

Events that happened on November 6 This Day in Baseball history. November 6 , 1887 Walter Johnson was born on this day in 1887. Considered by many to be the greatest right-hander in baseball history, Johnson was the hardest thrower of his time. He was a phenomenally successful pitcher on often terrible Washington Senators' teams. As a veteran, he anchored the only Senators' World Series winning club, in 1924. He and Christy Mathewson were the first pitchers inducted into the Hall of Fame. He was known as the “Big Train” and in later years, upon seeing Bob Feller throw his hard one, Johnson admitted that he had thrown harder in his day. Johnson is the greatest player to ever play for the Washington Senators, debuting on August 2, 1907, against the Detroit Tigers and Ty Cobb. “He's got a gun concealed about his person. They can't tell me he throws them balls with his arm.” – Famed writer Ring Lardner wrote of JohnsonSam Rice tells the truth about game 3 of the 1925 World Series - On November 6, 1974, the contents of a letter written by the late Sam Rice to the Hall of Fame are revealed in Cooperstown, New York. In the letter, Rice, who had instructed the letter be opened after his death, says that he did successfully make a disputed catch in the 1925 World Series.Bud Selig goes toe to toe with the players association - November 6, 2001 — Denying it's a negotiating ploy, major league owners give commissioner Bud Selig the authority to “begin the process” of eliminating two ‘to be announced' teams by a 28-2 vote. Donald Fehr, the Players Association executive director, calls the action of possibly eliminating the Expos, Twins, or Marlins most imprudent and unfortunate, and the worst manner in which to begin the process of negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. We had hoped that we were in a new era, one that would see a much better relationship between players and owners. Today's announcement is a severe blow to such hopes.November 6, 1950, Branch Rickey signs a five-year contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates after selling his 25 per cent interest in the Brooklyn Dodgers' franchise. On October 26, Rickey had resigned as Brooklyn's president, giving way to Walter O'Malley. Rickey will serve as the Pirates' general manager and executive vice-president. The ‘Mahatma's' magic doesn't seem to work, as the Bucs will compile a 269-501 record (.349) during his tenure in Pittsburgh.

A few days ago, a reporter from one of the trades asked me for an interview. I knew there could only be one reason she would want to interview me, and it wasn't to talk about how I ran a website for 25 years on the Oscar race.It wouldn't be that I raised a baby as a single mother and launched my site out of a guest house in Van Nuys, California, or that I'd worked as a sports photographer, a fake horoscope writer, a film reviewer, a janitor, and a teacher's aide to raise my daughter without sending her to daycare and somehow built a successful business anyway.No. This had to be about my politics and why they changed.How did a Barack Obama devotee, an I'm With Her Hillary Clinton supporter, and a Joe Biden faithful from way back find my way into not only voting for Trump but actively trying to help the Republicans defeat the Democrats?Now that's a story, “How Did an Oscar Blogger become a far-right radical?”The pitch wasn't exactly about that. It was more about how I plan to navigate being a dissident heretic while also running a successful business in an industry that is now the same organism as the government.I've been asked this question many times by people on the Right and have given many interviews to explain “what happened to me.” But this is the first time anyone on the Left, or inside the bubble of the Left, asked me to explain it.And that's because one, two, three, all eyes are on me. I did a boo-boo on Twitter that now has me in the crosshairs at long last. It was one thing when I stood up for JK Rowling or Ansel Elgort or when I pushed back on the hysteria that Green Book was “racist.” When Trump is involved, it's bigger than just your average internet pile-on. This time it could mean the end of whatever it is I've built over at AwardsDaily.com.The story will be about how my politics changed, or more specifically, why I felt like I could get away with a satirical tweet that said “White Power” while mocking the “White Dudes for Harris.”Is it bad to mock white people? I thought they were fair game. Or is just saying those words bad? Some people decided that it meant something beyond that. I don't check my mentions anymore, so I had no idea this wave of hysteria was even occurring. But then a friend wrote to “ask me about it.”It was as though I was secretly joining the white power movement on Twitter and was signaling to all of my friends in the KKK that, look, it's cool to be white people celebrating our whiteness again! Of course, it's not. It's just that they have a habit on the left of memory-holing their insanity and moving the goalposts. We're all supposed to keep up.Four years ago, there could have been no “white dudes for Biden” or “white dudes for Barack Obama.” It would be called any number of things, from white saviorism (which this most surely was) and even borderline racism. But not in 2024! Anything goes because they say so.I could have deleted the tweet and apologized profusely. But I know the game, brother. They once called me a “white supremacist” for saying it wasn't only white people who committed hate crimes (fact check true). But in my world, no matter how crazy or blatant the hypocrisy gets, you should never say a word about it.Apologize and beg for forgiveness. Maybe they'll give you a break. No, they won't. They will screenshot the tweet and send it around and around. By the end of this madness, it will land in the lap of a reporter who wonders, “What happened to her?”How did Orwell know enough to write Children's Spies in 1984? How did he know the young would be so susceptible to fanaticism? Because, of course, he knew. That's why capturing the youth is so important to cults and utopias and why they separate the kids from the parents, as the Democrats are trying to do now.It's my own fault. I could have shut up, kept my head down, and complied with all of the demands—think they do, write like they do, believe what they believe, and always apologize for “mistakes made.” I could have done that. But then I think about Winston Smith and 1984. How did Orwell know?He knew that utopias must become totalitarian dystopias because how else to maintain the purity and the vision? We're living everything from that book, even a government that has now been weaponized to punish thought crimes.They have condemned and convicted Trump and his supporters as “racists,” which means anything can be done to them, and no one will say a thing. Steve Bannon is in prison for the crucial months leading up to the election. The last time someone was in jail for that crime was Ring Lardner of the Hollywood Ten.If Orwell wanted to write a book that would call out to the future to warn us that this isn't what we want for our country, much less our culture, then loudmouths like Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and me will have to take the hit because no one else will.Winston Smith is an obedient member of Oceana whose thoughts take him to dangerous places. Big Brother doesn't like him remembering great books or language deemed useless. Even love is strictly forbidden. That's how Winston finds himself being forced to admit 2+2=5.I still feel like a liberal at heart. I still care about climate change. I still believe we should all have access to good healthcare, no matter how rich we are. So many of the issues that used to be standard for Democrats have been warped and distorted beyond the point of recognition. This is a public episode. 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 Author Ron Rapoport joins Rick Kogan to talk about his new book, “Frank Chance's Diamond: The Baseball Journalism of Ring Lardner.”

The Orson Welles Show (Lady Esther) | That's Why I Left You / The Maysville Minstrel (ep 06) | Broadcast date: Monday, November 10, 1941"That's Why I Left You," story by John Nesbitt, with Ray Collins (narrator), Stuart Erwin, June Collyer, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead"The Maysville Minstrel," story by Ring Lardner, with Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Stuart Erwin, June Collyer: : : : :My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI FI x HORROR -- COMEDY x FUNNY HA HA -- VARIETY X ARMED FORCES.Subscribing is free and you'll receive new post notifications. Also, if you have a moment, please give a 4-5 star rating and/or write a 1-2 sentence positive review on your preferred service -- that would help me a lot.Thank you for your support.https://otr.duane.media | Instagram @duane.otr

A brief history of Popup John, original Yankee, and his run-in with Ring Lardner, while another great writer explains a crusade against injustice in terms of a pitcher's love-life. Plus the usual sidelights and digressions, from Luis Arraez to falsely-accused exhibitionist baseball writers. The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game's present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they'll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can't get anybody out?

You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner audiobook. Big, fat, dumb, lazy, vain, headstrong and cheap, Jack Keefe is a journeyman pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in the rowdy days of the Deadball Era, circa 1915, ruled by the likes of Ty Cobb and John McGraw. In You Know Me Al, we follow Jack Keefe's life on-field and off, via the letters Jack writes to his old chum Al in his home town of Bedford, Indiana. Ring Lardner was a Chicago sportswriter who covered the White Sox, and he brought an insider's knowledge of clubhouse life together with his biting wit and gift for the vernacular to create a comic gem in You Know Me Al. The six Jack Keefe stories that compose this volume were originally written as individual magazine articles, but the epistolary format made it easy to collect them into a single running narrative covering Jack's first two years in the Big Leagues. It isn't necessary to know baseball history to enjoy the book, which is as much about Jack's troubles with girlfriends, wives and babies as it is about the Chicago White Sox. For the baseball fan, however, this glimpse into a bygone era adds an extra layer of fascination. In any case, Lardner's portrait of the professional ballplayer as a dumb, drunken narcissist is as funny today as the day it was written. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EPISODE 68: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) "He was completely caught up in the fantasy. He really believed in the whole MAGA, stolen election. If you go to Fox News, if you look at QAnon - you know." David DePape's employer of six years makes it Case Closed: the would-be assassin of Nancy Pelosi was energized stochastically by every weapon the GOP can muster (2:24) And it appears that DePape's defense will be a claim of "vulnerability" to the MAGA/Fox News/Trump misinformation machine (3:24) Yet the GOP continues in full denial, to the extent that a Washington Examiner columnist insists the assassination attempt never happened (5:04) How does the GOP maintain this astonishing and apparently heartfelt hypocrisy? Their party DEPENDS on it. Let me review a couple dozen Herschel Walker/Peter Navarro/Samuel Alito cases (10:30) And finally we have the explanation of "Every Republican Accusation Is A Confession" from a psychology professional: it's not projection, it's not compensation. B-Block (20:04) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Hex, in Devore CA (21:00) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Graham has to testify, Wisconsin fascist gubernatorial candidate says the quiet fascist part out loud, and Elon Musk's tries to make selling Verification into a populist issue when he's really just blackmailing the blue checks: pay me $96/year or I'll shadow-ban you, and maybe sell your identity to somebody else. Plus late word that the Treasury Department isn't happy with all those Saudi, Qatari, and Chinese investors and may try to hold up his purchase! (26:16) IN SPORTS: Even MORE home runs, yet another A's franchise shift, and the NBA screws up the Kyrie Irving disaster yet again (29:40) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLDS: Mehmet Oz, Jim "Yes MASA" Jordan and Andrea "Bothsidesism" Mitchell compete for the honors. C-Block (34:02) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: You know how I know CNN is trying to swing to the right to protect its profits in case the country goes fascist? Because MSNBC tried it in 2003. The harrowing story of the day they tried to make me run a commentary by Michael Savage - literally dressed as a brownshirt - in the middle of Countdown and what I had to do to stop them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul Sullivan has a way with words, some that have angered players and management during his 40 years at the Chicago Tribune. Now the caretaker of the prestigious and historic “In the Wake of the News column” Sullivan is still writing mostly about baseball, a beat he covered for some 30 years. He's seen a lot of bad baseball in Chicago but also chronicled the The White Sox first World Series championship in 88 years and the Cubs in 108! “Sully” as he's best known has had his run-ins with such renowned players as Sammy Sosa and Frank Thomas and once had the Cubs temperamental pitcher Carlos Zambrano offer a Milwaukee baseball security person $100,000 to kill him!All in a days work or in this case, a sterling career, one that has seen Sullivan cop the Illinois sportswriter of the year award 3 times and the prestigious Ring Lardner award for excellence in sports journalism. During this very entertaining podcast, Sullivan reveals how he was once a bellboy at the famous Drake Hotel in Chicago where he carried bags for Bull Cosby and was an extra in the movie, Continental Divide with John Belushi, parts of which were shot at the Drake. He also discusses his relationship with Sammy Sosa whom he won't vote for the hall of fame but believes the Cubs should honor him, something current management has thus far refused to do.Tell me a story I don't know is now part of the Sports Media Watch podcast (sportsmediawatch.com) so please follow @paulsen_smw. Tell me a story I don't know is proudly sponsored by Vienna Beef, makers of the Chicago hotdog and an institution since 1893. (@viennabeef.com). And by Dynamic Manufacturing, awarded the General Motors supplier of the year 22 times! Find them @dynamicmanufacturinging.com.Hear full episodes and make sure you follow me on Twitter (@georgeofman), Facebook and Instagram. And please subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Paul Sullivan has a way with words, some that have angered players and management during his 40 years at the Chicago Tribune. Now the caretaker of the prestigious and historic “In the Wake of the News column” Sullivan is still writing mostly about baseball, a beat he covered for some 30 years. He's seen a lot of bad baseball in Chicago but also chronicled the The White Sox first World Series championship in 88 years and the Cubs in 108! “Sully” as he's best known has had his run-ins with such renowned players as Sammy Sosa and Frank Thomas and once had the Cubs temperamental pitcher Carlos Zambrano offer a Milwaukee baseball security person $100,000 to kill him!All in a days work or in this case, a sterling career, one that has seen Sullivan cop the Illinois sportswriter of the year award 3 times and the prestigious Ring Lardner award for excellence in sports journalism. During this very entertaining podcast, Sullivan reveals how he was once a bellboy at the famous Drake Hotel in Chicago where he carried bags for Bull Cosby and was an extra in the movie, Continental Divide with John Belushi, parts of which were shot at the Drake. He also discusses his relationship with Sammy Sosa whom he won't vote for the hall of fame but believes the Cubs should honor him, something current management has thus far refused to do.Tell me a story I don't know is now part of the Sports Media Watch podcast (sportsmediawatch.com) so please follow @paulsen_smw. Tell me a story I don't know is proudly sponsored by Vienna Beef, makers of the Chicago hotdog and an institution since 1893. (@viennabeef.com). And by Dynamic Manufacturing, awarded the General Motors supplier of the year 22 times! Find them @dynamicmanufacturinging.com.Hear full episodes and make sure you follow me on Twitter (@georgeofman), Facebook and Instagram. And please subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Paul Sullivan has a way with words, some that have angered players and management during his 40 years at the Chicago Tribune. Now the caretaker of the prestigious and historic “In the Wake of the News column” Sullivan is still writing mostly about baseball, a beat he covered for some 30 years. He's seen a lot of bad baseball in Chicago but also chronicled the The White Sox first World Series championship in 88 years and the Cubs in 108! “Sully” as he's best known has had his run-ins with such renowned players as Sammy Sosa and Frank Thomas and once had the Cubs temperamental pitcher Carlos Zambrano offer a Milwaukee baseball security person $100,000 to kill him!All in a days work or in this case, a sterling career, one that has seen Sullivan cop the Illinois sportswriter of the year award 3 times and the prestigious Ring Lardner award for excellence in sports journalism. Hear more from Paul and his stories coming Tuesday!Tell me a story I don't know is now part of the Sports Media Watch podcast (sportsmediawatch.com) so please follow @paulsen_smw. Tell me a story I don't know is proudly sponsored by Vienna Beef, makers of the Chicago hotdog and an institution since 1893. (@viennabeef.com). And by Dynamic Manufacturing, awarded the General Motors supplier of the year 22 times! Find them @dynamicmanufacturinging.com.Hear full episodes and make sure you follow me on Twitter (@georgeofman), Facebook and Instagram. And please subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Paul Sullivan has a way with words, some that have angered players and management during his 40 years at the Chicago Tribune. Now the caretaker of the prestigious and historic “In the Wake of the News column” Sullivan is still writing mostly about baseball, a beat he covered for some 30 years. He's seen a lot of bad baseball in Chicago but also chronicled the The White Sox first World Series championship in 88 years and the Cubs in 108! “Sully” as he's best known has had his run-ins with such renowned players as Sammy Sosa and Frank Thomas and once had the Cubs temperamental pitcher Carlos Zambrano offer a Milwaukee baseball security person $100,000 to kill him!All in a days work or in this case, a sterling career, one that has seen Sullivan cop the Illinois sportswriter of the year award 3 times and the prestigious Ring Lardner award for excellence in sports journalism. Hear more from Paul and his stories coming Tuesday!Tell me a story I don't know is now part of the Sports Media Watch podcast (sportsmediawatch.com) so please follow @paulsen_smw. Tell me a story I don't know is proudly sponsored by Vienna Beef, makers of the Chicago hotdog and an institution since 1893. (@viennabeef.com). And by Dynamic Manufacturing, awarded the General Motors supplier of the year 22 times! Find them @dynamicmanufacturinging.com.Hear full episodes and make sure you follow me on Twitter (@georgeofman), Facebook and Instagram. And please subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Ring Lardner at his amused and observant best: “Alibi Ike.”

This week Ken welcomes writer, director, actor, and one of Ken's most looked up to Renascence Men, John Sayles. Ken and John discuss outer space, TV as babysitter, how 1960 was far before Ken was born, late night TV, inappropriate commercials, human remote controls, the lack of choice, 30 Westerns on TV, Have Gun Will Travel, signature guns, TV theme songs, how you set the tone and mood for a story, Wanted Dead or Alive, Steve McQueen, how some actors are just cool, Ernie Kovacs, sight gags, surreal TV, The Rebel, Nick Adams wannabe status, Johnny Cash singing the theme to The Rebel, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, how The British actually really love Murder, Elmer Bernstein's theme to Johnny Staccato, John Cassavetes, west coast white jazz musicians, the Ed Sullivan Show, variety shows, Johnny Puleo and the Harmonica Gang, SCTV, The Beatles, Jackie Mason flipping off America on live TV, Peter Gunn, lack of ambiguity in television, first seeing color on TV in a baseball game, learning story structure via watching TV, Sergio Leone, being and undercover western detective for Wells Fargo, Adventures in Paradise, Ricardo Montauban, Dobie Gillis, Bob Denver as Maynard J. Krebbs, Tuesday Weld acting on TV with Warren Beatty, Archie, making your own On the Road as Route 66 with very minor changes, The Riflemen, Chuck Connors, doing your chores, TV and movies being banned from shooting in Chicago for years, The Untouchables, Crime Story, M Squad, Lee Marvin, Police Squad being influenced by M Squad's theme song, Joe Dante directing Police Squad, the best sight gags on the show, John Ford, Andy Devine's Hollywood status after Ward Bond's death, The Millionaire, dueling Bat Mastersons, being a super fan of mafia succession, how Ring Lardner in 8 Men Out was Robert Stack's voice, Robert Stack's jokes, Walter Winchell, Neville Brand, Al Capone, Friday Night Fights, The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, how boxing was the perfect subject to air on television, Emile Griffith killing Benny Paret in the ring live on TV, The Twilight Zone, Lee Marvin in the Twilight Zone Episode Steel, Hemingway's story "50 Grand", and the oddness of TV sign offs.

If the narrator of tonight's story were your conversation partner, you might not get in a word edgewise: Ring Lardner's “Golden Honeymoon.”

So you think Rick Telander and you think Natan's hot dog eating contest, right? It's just one of the many facets of this award winning journalist and columnist who gained national acclaim for his work at Sports Illustrated and a book most publishers wanted nothing to do with. But Heaven is a Playground became a movie and is still in publication, 45 years after it was penned.Telander has written countless articles about the NCAA and its inequities, appeared on a spectacularly popular TV show in Chicago called The Sportswriters on TV which spawned ESPN's successful The Sports Reporters. Telander has won 9 Peter Lisagor awards, the Ring Lardner award and was nominated for Pulitzer Prize three times!He was a also a cornerback for Northwestern in the late 60's and early 70's where his teammate was Mike Adamle and as for those hotdogs….Telander is a notorious eater having once consumed a dozen while covering a Chiocago white Sox game, He claims not to eat very many hot dogs anymore because there isn't a hog dog stand near his home.Tell me a story I don't know is sponsored by Vienna Beef (@viennabeef.com) and by The Paulina Market (@paulinamarket.com). Hear full episodes and make sure to follow and review us open Apple Podcasts, Spotify, google, etc.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

So you think Rick Telander and you think Natan's hot dog eating contest, right? It's just one of the many facets of this award winning journalist and columnist who gained national acclaim for his work at Sports Illustrated and a book most publishers wanted nothing to do with. But Heaven is a Playground became a movie and is still in publication, 45 years after it was penned.Telander has written countless articles about the NCAA and its inequities, appeared on a spectacularly popular TV show in Chicago called The Sportswriters on TV which spawned ESPN's successful The Sports Reporters. Telander has won 9 Peter Lisagor awards, the Ring Lardner award and was nominated for Pulitzer Prize three times!He was a also a cornerback for Northwestern in the late 60's and early 70's where his teammate was Mike Adamle and as for those hotdogs….Telander is a notorious eater having once consumed a dozen while covering a Chiocago white Sox game, He claims not to eat very many hot dogs anymore because there isn't a hog dog stand near his home.Tell me a story I don't know is sponsored by Vienna Beef (@viennabeef.com) and by The Paulina Market (@paulinamarket.com). Hear full episodes and make sure to follow and review us open Apple Podcasts, Spotify, google, etc.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sports writer, humorist, satirist, novelist, Ring Lardner was a versatile writer with the sharpest of ears for American vernacular speech. Here is one of his great stories, “Haircut.”

TOPICS: Journalist Ring Lardner & the Black Sox scandal, Charles Murray's FACING REALITY, & the philosopher Marsilio Ficino.Host Scot Bertram talks with John J. Miller, Director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College, about journalist Ring Lardner and the Black Sox scandal of 1919. Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, joins us for an in-depth discussion about his latest book, FACING REALITY: TWO TRUTHS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA. And Matthew Gaetano, Associate Professor of History at Hillsdale, introduces us to the Italian Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

TOPICS: Journalist Ring Lardner & the Black Sox scandal, Charles Murray’s FACING REALITY, & the philosopher Marsilio Ficino. Host Scot Bertram talks with John J. Miller, Director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College, about journalist Ring Lardner and the Black Sox scandal of 1919. Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise […]

TOPICS: Journalist Ring Lardner & the Black Sox scandal, Charles Murray's FACING REALITY, & the philosopher Marsilio Ficino. Host Scot Bertram talks with John J. Miller, Director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College, about journalist Ring Lardner and the Black Sox scandal of 1919. Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, joins us for an in-depth discussion about his latest book, FACING REALITY: TWO TRUTHS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA. And Matthew Gaetano, Associate Professor of History at Hillsdale, introduces us to the Italian Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino.

Ring Lardner award winner in 2020 for sports broadcasting is Chicago Sportscaster Dan Roan of WGN-TV. Thirty seven years covering Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Bears, Chicago Blackhawks, Notre Dame football and more. Roan tells great stories from the worst athletes in Chicago sports to the best. And how PGA golfer D.A. Weibring helped Roan's career while roommates at Illinois State University.

Ring Lardner award winner Toni Ginnetti talks about her career covering Chicago baseball, basketball, Olympics and everything in between.

Ring Lardner Award winner Toni Ginnetti talks about her career as a sportswriter in Chicago. A female trailblazer in print journalism, Ginnetti shares how her instinct led to human interest stories in baseball about former Chicago Cub Rick Sutcliffe's dog "Rookie" and the Chicago White Sox Adam Dunn. Great stories from a woman who is a Baseball Hall of Fame voter and has covered DePaul basketball, Olympics and Politics in Chicago.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! As we near the 1 year mark of being quarantined from the world, let's look back at all the marvelous... Nah, never mind, how about we just read another story. This week, Ken gets to read an odd little story by the apparently famous (though we'd never heard of him) Ring Lardner.  "Haircut" is a charming, folksy, storyteller-y short story with more suspicious character crammed into 8 pages than you can shake a stick at (or some other olde timey idiom). Along the way, Ken and Heather talk Music Man re-writes, grave robbing vengeance, and (stick around until the end) a Campfire Classics animal costume calendar.   "Haircut" was first published  in 1925, and is his most republished and anthologized story. Promo: Stolen From Me By Linsey https://www.stolenfrommepod.com/ And, if you can't wait for more of Ken's voice, head over to Plum Forest Podcast and listen to hime in episode 31, The River Rock https://www.plumforestpodcast.com/ So sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

53:00 – Dr Decimal Seven from 1933!! 1918 occurences!! Azure Attorney and Rare Evlis!! How to Pitch to Babe Ruth by Ring Lardner!! Ribber the Interlocutor digresses, detours and deals out the drivelene!! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. Attribution by PQ Ribber Released December 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground […]

53:00 – Dr Decimal Seven from 1933!! 1918 occurences!! Azure Attorney and Rare Evlis!! How to Pitch to Babe Ruth by Ring Lardner!! Ribber the Interlocutor digresses, detours and deals out the drivelene!! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. Attribution by PQ Ribber Released December 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground […]

Wes & Erin continue their discussion of "The Great Gatsby"; the ongoing development of our approach to the discussions; Arnold Rothstein and the fixing of the 1919 World Series; Fitzgerald's neighbors on Long Island, including Ring Lardner and Ed Wynn; the contemporary feel of the novel; the NYC movie-making scene in the early 20th century; Marilynne Robinson; and possibilities for the next episode, where because of a weird time warp we talk as if "A Woman Under the Influence" will follow "The Great Gatsby" when it has always already preceded it.

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What do Atlantic salmon do in the Pacific? What film did Ring Lardner secretly win an Oscar for? Who started the Gargoyle Club for pyjama-and-bottle parties? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Lizzie Roper find out in today's Date Fight!

Como me urge, he ido en mi memoria a tres peluquerías literarias. Las tres, curioso, abiertas a principios del siglo XX. La primera es el cuento “Corte de pelo” (1922) de Ring Lardner, con un final que sigue siendo clásico casi un siglo después: “Combitwetordry?”. Imán y limadura

On March 24th, 1940 Jack Benny was guest-star for a dramatic role on Orson Welles' Campbell Playhouse over CBS airwaves. The story they chose was "June Moon," a play by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner, based on the Lardner short story "Some Like Them Cold," about a love affair that loses steam before it ever gets started. At the center of June Moon is Fred Stevens, a young aspiring lyricist who journeys from Schenectady to New York City, where he hopes to make a name for himself in the world of song publishing and night clubs. On the train he meets dental assistant Edna Baker, and the two embark upon a friendship that evolves into love for her and fondness for him. While struggling to become a Tin Pan Alley notable, Fred takes a shine to his composer partner Paul's glamorous, gold-digging sister-in-law Eileen. The two men sell a song to a music publisher and it develops into a hit. Ultimately, revelations about Eileen's true character help return Fred to his senses and Edna, whom he realizes he truly loves. The cast included Orson Welles (Candy Butcher), Jack Benny (Fred Stevens), Benny Rubin (Maxie Schwartz), Gus Schilling (Paul Sears), Bea Benaderet (Lucille Sears) and Virginia Gordon (Edna Baker). Lee Patrick reprised her Broadway role as Eileen. Ernest Chappell was the announcer. "June Moon" was Orson Welles penultimate episode with The Campbell Playhouse. He would leave the series after March 31st to focus on the production of his first feature film, Citizen Kane.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the professional game of baseball had already taken on much of its modern shape – where pitching and managerial strategy dominated, and “manufactured” offense meant taught and tense contests, albeit often with limited scoring.  Stretching roughly from 1901-19, the period dubbed the “Deadball Era” by baseball historians saw teams play in expansive ball parks that limited hitting for power, while featuring baseballs that were, by modern-day comparison, more loosely wound, weakly bound and regularly overused.  Against this backdrop, the established National and upstart American Leagues hammered out their seminal “National Agreement” in 1903, which not only proclaimed the competing circuits as equals, but also mandated a season-ending (and aspirationally titled) “World’s Championship Series” to determine annual supremacy in the sport – now known more simply as the World Series. Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) historian Steve Steinberg (The World Series in the Deadball Era) joins the pod this week to discuss the October Classic’s eventful first years, as seen through the dramatically-licensed written journalistic accounts (featuring literary luminaries such as Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, and Damon Runyon, among others), and revealing black-and-white (and often uncredited) photography of the leading newspapers of the time – a media environment devoid of Internet, social media, television, or even radio coverage.  Of course, we discuss the bevy of previously incarnated teams that featured prominently during the period, including the first-ever World Series champion Boston Americans (now Red Sox), the “miracle” Boston Braves of 1914, the Brooklyn Robins (later Dodgers, both in Brooklyn and then Los Angeles) – and the two most dominant clubs of the era: John McGraw’s New York (now San Francisco) Giants and Connie Mack’s Philadelphia (later Kansas City, and ultimately Oakland) Athletics.  Thanks to SportsHistoryCollecibles.com, Audible and Podfly for their sponsorship of this episode!

Case #33: The Black Sox   I'm forever blowing ballgames, pretty ballgames in the air. I come from Chi, I hardly try, just go to bat and fade and die. Fortune's coming my way, that's why I don't care. I'm forever blowing ballgames, and the gamblers treat us fair.   -Ring Lardner     You could say that it started with Charlie Comiskey, because a lot of things started with Charlie Comiskey in Chicago in 1919. Comiskey owned the Chicago White Sox, a serious contender in any year, and he enjoyed the reputation as a tightwad and a fierce negotiator. I want to go on record by saying that although Comiskey fostered the reputation as a hard-guy and a tightwad, the payroll of the Chicago White Sox was one of the best in the league. The team was filled with solid players and had two bona fide stars on its roster; outfielder Joe Jackson and third baseman Buck Weaver. They each made over $6000 a year in 1919 and a lot of the other name players on the team made around half that. And that was about what they would have made on any other roster in the Bigs, so while money was a factor in the Black Sox Scandal, it wasn't the only factor.    

We're time-traveling back to 1922, where we check out an early edition of Best American Short Stories, including a story by Ring Lardner and another that, in a review of the collection, was called "possibly the worst short story ever written." We've also got a variety of news items from 1922: monkey dinners, idle wives, a tugboat tragedy, the Wannamaker organ, the still-unsolved murder of William Desmond Taylor, and much much more! Visit us online for more, including links to some of the stuff we talked about in the episode: bookfightpod.com. 

We talk about Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker. We also touch on Geoff Dyer, Robert Burton, Ring Lardner and Robert Benchley. Also Harry Potter.    Further Readings DOROTHY PARKER! Biography The Collected Dorothy Parker Paris Review interview   Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy In Our Time podcast on The Anatomy of Melancholy   Geoff Dyer Books we talk about:  Zona Out of Sheer Rage But Beautiful Otherwise Known As The Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews   Ring Lardner Short Bio Lardnermania   Robert Benchley Bio and Further Info   Edmund Wilson NY Times  Wilson’s review of Ulysses   Sinclair Lewis Babbitt  

Jonathan Yardley appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: The 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism, Jonathan Yardley is a book critic for The Washington Post. In 2003, Yardley began his "Second Reading" series in which he "reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past." He ended the series in 2010, and this year a compilation volume, "Second Readings" was published. Yardley's other books include "Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner," "Out of Step: Notes from a Purple Decade" and "Our Kind of People: The Story of an American Family." For captions, transcript, and more information http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5439.

Baseball Historian presents The Lux Radio Theatre. April 19, 1937.  "Alibi Ike" A baseball comedy about the pitcher whose talent on the mound was equalled only by his ability with his mouth. A natural role for Joe E. Brown! Babe Ruth and his wife Claire, speak from their apartment in New York. Illustrator Russell Patterson is interviewed. Joe E. Brown, Helen Chandler, Babe Ruth (intermission guest), Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Emerson (doubles), Claire Ruth (intermission guest), Cy Kendall, Ingebord Tillisch (performer, commercial spokesman), Joe Franz, Leora Thatcher (performer, commercial spokesman), Lou Merrill (doubles), Louis Silvers (music director), Marion Dennis (performer, commercial spokesman), Melville Ruick (announcer), Roscoe Karns, Ross Forrester, Russell Patterson (intermission guest: commercial illustrator), Wally Maher, William Frawley, William Wister Haines (screenwriter), Ring Lardner (author), Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).

Thu, Sep 01 2005 Mister Ron's Basement #115 A short segment from Ring Lardner's 'Alibi Ike' again wraps up the week of his stories. Time: approx seven minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

Wed, Aug 31 2005 Mister Ron's Basement #114 A fun Non-Sports story from Ring Lardner, excerpted from his 1916 tale 'Gullible's Travels.' I know. -- I'm Wise... Time: approx twelve minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

Tue, Aug 30 2005 Mister Ron's Basement #113 'Horseshoes' by Ring Lardner (1914) -- a little lengthier than most stories here in the Basement, but loads of fun and really worth listening to. You'll find lots of namedropping here, including a terrific sequence involving Washington pitching legend Walter Johnson. There's an exciting and funny description of a World Series, very loosely based on the 1913 matchup between Philadelphia's Athletics and New York's Giants, but fictionalized, and with a couple of extra games thrown in. Time: approx forty-seven and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

Mon, Aug 29 2005 Mister Ron's Basement #112 We're 'Headin' for Louisville' (musically, at least) as we hear a selection from Ring Lardner's 'You Know Me, Al' (1914). Time: approx eight minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

Sun, Aug 28 2005 Mister Ron's Basement #111 Coming up to the plate with a week of Ring Lardner stories. Today's is an excerpt from 'Alibi Ike' written in 1915. Time: approx ten minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html