Open Channel D: The Man From UNCLE Affair

Quaran-Scenes: "Cry to Me" and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. By Kyle Turner | May 24, 2020 | 6:27pm In Guy Ritchie’s 2015 The Man from U.N.C.L.E., when brick wall-esque KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) must keep an eye on his crucial contact/cover wife Gaby Teller (Alicia Vikander) in an effort to track down her Nazi nuclear physicist father for both the KGB and CIA—with Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) representing the Yanks—all of Gaby’s attempts at developing even a modicum of intimacy with the man are shut down. He’s not good at flirting, with women at least. In their hotel room, she’s left nursing a bottle and he stares at a chessboard, so keyed into a mode of professionalism it nearly renders him sexless. Sloshed, Gaby walks to her room, turns on the radio and tunes into Solomon Burke’s “Cry to Me.” “I’m going to finish this bottle,” Gaby says. “The only question is, are you going to help me or not?” It’s sexual bait, and Kuryakin isn’t biting....

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television. He was born and raised near St. Louis, Missouri and has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. He was an art collector and arts consultant with a degree in art history, and he lectured and wrote books on the subject. The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is named in his honor. He was also a noted gourmet cook. Price was born on May 27, 1911, in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of the four children of Vincent Leonard Price Sr. (July 30, 1871 – June 18, 1948), president of the National Candy Company, and his wife Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) Price (October 28, 1874 ...

THE AUTHOR MUST DIE: TV DETECTIVES SAVING WRITERS FROM THEMSELVES Eileen Gonzalez  May 10, 2020 There’s a whole lot of crime shows, but only so many types of crime. So if you watch as many of these shows as I do, you eventually notice some commonalities. For example, there’s always the Let’s Play With ESP episode (“Sixth Sense,” Hart to Hart; all of Psych), the Check Out This Cool New Tech episode (“A Virtual Murder,” Murder, She Wrote; “It’s Only a Game,” Simon & Simon), and so forth. And then there’s the type of episode that’s most relevant to this site: The Author Must Die. These feature a writer who, well-intentioned or otherwise, writes a book so damaging that they end up on someone’s hit list. (Sometimes, the book is only a smokescreen for a different motive.) I decided to collect as many of this type of episode as I could find. THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. “THE PIECES OF FATE AFFAIR” (FEBRUARY 24, 1967) Yes, this is a spy show and not a detective show, but it’s my favorite, s...

Juliana Edith "Julie" Sommars (born April 15, 1942) is an American actress. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her role in The Governor & J.J. in 1970, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for Matlock in 1990. Sommars was born as Juliana Edith Sommars in Fremont, Nebraska, but raised in Iowa and South Dakota. She resides in Los Angeles with her fourth husband, John Karns. She has three children, from her third marriage. David McCallum and Julie Sommars Sommars is best known for her work on television. She made her television debut In 1960, at the age of eighteen, in an episode of The Loretta Young Show. She later appeared in Gunsmoke, Shirley Temple's Storybook, The Great Adventure, Bonanza, Run, Buddy, Run, Perry Mason, Ben Casey, Death Valley Days, The Fugitive, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Get Smart, and Love, American Style. From 1969-70, Sommars starred as Jennifer J...

Patricia Paz Maria Medina (19 July 1919 – 28 April 2012) was an English-American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) and Mr. Arkadin (1955). Medina was the daughter of Ramón Medina Nebot, a Spanish lawyer and opera singer from the Canary Islands, and an English mother. Patricia had two sisters, Piti (Pepita) and Gloria. Born in Liverpool, she and her sisters grew up at a mansion in Stanmore. Medina began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s and worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, when she left London for Hollywood.  In 1950's Fortunes of Captain Blood, she teamed with British actor, Louis Hayward. She and Hayward subsequently appeared together in 1951's The Lady and the Bandit, Lady in the Iron Mask and Captain Pirate from 1952. Darkly beautiful, Medina was often typecast in period melodramas such as The Black Knight. Two of her more notable films were William Witney's Stranger at My ...

The Man From UNCLE Episode 33 The Foxes and Hounds Affair Writer : Peter Allen Fields Director : Alf Kjellin Guests : Vincent Price (Victor Marton), Patricia Medina (Lucia Belmont), Julie Sommars (Mimi Doolittle) Filmed : 06-13 June 1965 Premiere : 08 October 1965 Places : Paris (France) and New York NY (USA) Acts titles : 1 - "Get those nasties off our back" 2 - "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy" 3 - "Think of girls" 4 - "Go get' em tiger" The affair: In Paris, the magician Merlin is introduced to his new assistant Mimi Doolittle. He shows his Electronic Thought Translator for Illya Kuryakin and agent Cantrell. (Napoleon Solo is on vacation). At night, Merlin does his magic tricks. The translator is aimed to Victor Marton, from THRUSH. He mentally reveals that will kill Merlin and steal the translator. THRUSH men kills Merlin. Illya and Cantrell escape with the Translator. Viktor commands the THRUSH men in a trip to New York. A girl called ...