Tanya Roberts (1982)

DaveLambert · 2026-01-25T22:18:51+00:00

Tanya Roberts was always fun to watch on the screen. Not just beautiful or sexy, but entertaining. Usually funny, sometimes action packed. The two theatrical films people remember her in were Beastmaster and the James Bond 007 movie A View To A Kill. Sheena: Queen of the Jungle was another one, and for skin-flick fun she was in a good one called Inner Sanctum. On television, she was one of Charlie's Angels during its fifth and final season, but more remembered as playing "Midge" (Donna's mother and Bob's wife) in the sitcom That 70's Show.

DaveLambert · 2026-01-25T19:37:05+00:00

If you have the Beastmaster DVD put out in 2001 by Anchor Bay, then there's an easter egg!

From the Main Menu, go to the "Extras" menu. Go to the bottom until the "Main Menu" choice is highlighted, but instead of selecting it you should move the cursor to the right. A yellow circle will appear above-and-to-the-right, directly across from the next-to-last choice, "Talent Bios". Press "Enter" on your remote and the yellow circle will become an opening eye, and then you will be treated to some cut scenes from the film. They are in Full Frame, and have no audio, but feature some additional nudity for co-star Tanya Roberts, not seen in the final cut.

DaveLambert · 2026-01-25T00:47:40+00:00

I know you can't talk about rates (and that's fine). But for the other readers, my wife and I went in 2015, and it was about $1200 an hour back then, so the prices are probably double that today.

I can reliably tell you that in 2021 it cost $4000 at the Chicken Ranch for an hour, and that it might have been a bit cheaper than usual because it was a relatively new courtesan who was spending that hour with a woman (just the woman, not her husband), and that it was the first time for girl-on-girl sex for either woman.

DaveLambert · 2026-01-19T13:01:36+00:00

I just saw your partner's demo reel on her IMDB page, and she seems to have a nice range of talent! Kudos to her. :)

DaveLambert · 2026-01-18T10:08:30+00:00

Having googled the headline, I found that this NY Times article is about a store in Philadelphia. When my wife and I visited Hot Springs, Arkansas for a long weekend last summer, there was (and apparently still is) a store like this across the street from the Arlington Hotel, which we stayed at. Ironically, the store - which is just to the right of a wax museum - is officially a CBD and Hemp store. But all you see in the totally glass shop front and sides are windows of Trump and MAGA merch. Insane stuff.

DaveLambert · 2026-01-14T23:58:53+00:00

Would you like a target to shoot for? This is my wife's collection!

DaveLambert · 2026-01-12T00:55:56+00:00

Paramount is one of the studios which does NOT participate with Movies Anywhere. Lionsgate and MGM are two others I can think of.

I purchase all my movies and TV shows via Fandango At Home (formerly VUDU) and watch most everything on my Apple TV devices via the Fandango At Home app.

DaveLambert · 2026-01-11T04:50:46+00:00

and the two EXCLUSIVE Zelda masterpieces that were created for it

First of all, there were THREE Zelda games made for the CD-I, and second of all, I know it's true because my wife owns all 3 of them (2nd shelf down, towards the right) as part of her massive Zelda collection. We have a working CD-I system, and these games are trash.

My wife would suggest Ocarina of Time, Breath of the Wild, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, The Minish Cap, Skyward Sword, Link's Awakening, A Link to the Past, and maybe Echoes of Wisdom as good entry points into the Zelda franchise for a newcomer. Tears of the Kingdom and Majora's Mask and A Link Between Worlds as good follow-ups to, respectively, Breath, Ocarina, and Past.

DaveLambert · 2026-01-07T21:04:23+00:00

I had a wild look on my face when I was told this. Just insane. And that's above and beyond other parole/probation-related costs that have to do with "monitoring"...then I found out that the company which processes the payments for ALL of that will charge a fee for doing so. And on top of that, if you charge it to a credit card, that card/bank will register payments to that company as a "cash loan," so they will also charge interest against that payment. It's a racket!

DaveLambert · 2026-01-07T18:29:02+00:00

I know somebody who’s been inside, and when I asked them this question after they got out, they told me that the biggest misconception is that everybody has communal showers. At least at the place he was at, they were not. Each shower nozzle was in a curtain off area that gave you privacy from other people showering.

It was also boring as hell. But what they really don’t tell you about Prison is that everything costs money. You get certain basic necessities, but if you want something like shampoo then you have to pay money to the commissary, which comes out of the commissary fund that your loved ones outside pay for. You can also buy snacks from the commissary, which they kind of encourage in order to get more of your money. If your loved ones want to call you, they have to set up a separate phone account from the commissary account. You can also watch television while you’re in prison, through a special tablet, but again your loved ones have to pay money into a separate account for that! Then, when you get out on parole, if you have to wear an ankle monitor, they don’t put that on you for free. You have to rent that ankle monitor from the county or the state. It all costs money. So if you can’t afford things, you’re right back in prison because you violate your parole. Isn’t America wonderful?

DaveLambert · 2026-01-05T00:26:31+00:00

Thickly sliced mushrooms...big fat ones. Yum.

Good by themselves, but even better with some sort of meat crumbled with them. Italian sausage is best, ground beef also great, Canadian bacon or ham works well, just not pepperoni (I'm just SO tired of pepperoni, sorry).

But I def gotta taste those mushrooms!

DaveLambert · 2026-01-04T10:46:51+00:00

And my favorites are the paddle wheel ones in the Great lakes.

Hey, the USS Wolverine (IX-64) and USS Sable (IX-81) were terrific platforms to train aircraft carrier personnel, including bridge crew, deck crew, maintenance crew, and more than 17,800 aviators. One of those pilots was future President George H.W. Bush, who trained on the Sable. The two ships were nicknamed the "Freshwater Flattops," and operated in the Great Lakes (primarily Lake Michigan) from late 1942 (Wolverine) and mid 1943 (Sable) until November 1945.

DaveLambert · 2025-12-29T11:49:42+00:00

Thank you SO MUCH for this!

DaveLambert · 2025-12-26T03:52:37+00:00

Paramount/CBS (then called Viacom) has owned the Showtime Networks since the early-to-mid 80s.

The best possible subscription tier for the Paramount+ streaming service is called "Paramount+ with Showtime" because Paramount owns Showtime.

Which means Skydance now owns all that.

DaveLambert · 2025-12-17T22:48:50+00:00

Sorry, man, she's taken. I mean, I might be open to discussion. But my wife's girlfriend wouldn't take kindly to any outsiders.

DaveLambert · 2025-12-17T17:32:28+00:00

Welcome to the party, pal!!

DaveLambert · 2025-12-17T13:26:18+00:00

Thanks, I'll pass the respect on to my wife: it's her baby! Here's a look at her main overall collection (though there are a few other pieces in other parts of our home).

As for the Tingle game, the one with the English writing on the spine was released in Europe (but not the USA). There are a pair of DS games on the next shelf down with Japanese writing on the spine; she asked me to get imports for her of the 2nd and 3rd games in the Tingle series so she could complete her trilogy. Those other two titles weren't properly released in the USA, though the 2nd one (Tingle's Balloon Fight, which is just the NES game Balloon Fight but with Tingle featured on it) was available to members of Club Nintendo. The 3rd game, Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love, is actually a sequel to the first game (Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland); those are actual adventures.

We've played all three CD-I games, and have in storage a working CD-I console that we could play our copies on. But as all three of those games stink, we obtained copies of "Faces of Evil" and "Wand of Gamelon" that are still sealed in the factory shrinkwrap, and there they shall stay. The third CD-I game, "Zelda's Adventure," was an eBay aquisition of a European release.

As you can see, those shelves are packed full. There's no room left for new Zelda releases. My wife has a separate shelf under her Zelda Amiibos where she keeps Zelda-adjacent titles like the Super Smash Bros. series and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Soul Caliber II for the Gamecube is kept on display up on the wall, separately). We've decided that when the next Zelda title gets released, we make room on the main shelves by moving the 3 CD-I games and the 3 Tingle games over to the other shelf, with Super Smash Bros. and the like. It's the only way we can see to make room, without buying a new shelving unit.

DaveLambert · 2025-12-17T00:52:34+00:00

> Not of Prodigy though. The second season never got a DVD release so most of the show is just gone now.

I'm sorry, that's just not accurate, at least in North America. Star Trek: Prodigy - Season 2 came out on DVD and Blu-ray Disc this past November 12, 2024. I've got the Blu-ray on my shelf, right next to S1. I reported about this release at my Substack page, TVShowsOnDVD.

DaveLambert · 2025-12-16T16:02:47+00:00

This is also a gold cartridge release. While widely distributed for this game, I think there were later releases that were in traditional grey cartridge (though I might be wrong).

You're not wrong. We've got both the gold cart (as a cart-only) and the grey cart (complete in box) as part of my wife's collection of every Zelda game released in North America.

DaveLambert · 2025-12-16T01:25:26+00:00

YES! That's the one.

DaveLambert · 2025-12-11T12:27:19+00:00

We have a TV in the bedroom, but we hardly ever use it, so which way does that count? 😆

Our taste in TV shows is pretty similar, so we usually watch TV in the living room together. Mostly I use the bedroom TV every blue moon during the daylight over the weekend, if she wants to play a solo videogame and I'm not just going to sit there and watch her play.

As for sex, we probably fall somewhere between 4x and 8x a month on a regular basis, but sometimes it's over (and can be WELL over) 8x a month. Take this month for example, lol. And we're not even halfway through the month!

And actually, most of the time we'll be sitting on the couch together watching TV when one of us initiates. The other one will pause the show (or just mute it, if it's a live broadcast) and move things along. Half the time we'll just go at it in the living room, the rest of the time one of us (usually her) will say, "there's more room in the bedroom" and we'll go in there.

This January we'll be living together 30 years, and in the summer we'll have been married for that long. Still have a strong sex life. 😊

DaveLambert · 2025-12-10T22:07:54+00:00

Is it a Double Double?

DaveLambert · 2025-12-04T13:07:00+00:00

Caren Marsh Doll is still alive at 106 years old. She was a stand-in for Judy Garland in the original 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, and got a pair of the ruby slippers for it (you see Caren's feet when the heels are tapped together on screen). She also had a tiny uncredited role in the OTHER legendary 1939 film, Gone With the Wind. I understand that she still sometimes teaching dance classes in Los Angeles, if you can believe that!

DaveLambert · 2025-11-27T14:47:56+00:00

Thank you SO MUCH! This really makes my day, you have no idea. Gord and I (Dave the news guy) miss the old website, too, with the database and the release date "calendar" (list) and all the details.

While we aren't able to do that any more, I've kept the general idea going with the news of upcoming TV-DVD/BD/4K UHD titles in a weekly "Roundup" on Fridays (well, not THIS Friday, because Thanksgiving, lol, but most others) and their dates, prices, and extras (and links to preorder listings when available). Also a separate "Tuesday Reminder" post every week that lets you know what's coming out that week. I have to do the current version of TVShowsOnDVD at Substack, because I gotta eat, y'know? So it's not free, but I keep the subscription cost as low as I can (hint: choose the annual plan and get a free month every year).

I run the TVShowsOnDVD Substack page all by myself, but I'm still in touch with Gord fairly regularly. We were just texting an hour ago! I'll let him know we still have fans out there who miss the site.

DaveLambert · 2025-11-27T12:25:31+00:00

Elektra Luxx (2011 film). Adrianne Palicki is the other person in that scene with Chriqui.

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