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Great Comedy Returns With Heartfelt Tribute: LWIL September 20 – 26

Great Comedy Returns With Heartfelt Tribute: LWIL September 20 – 26

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:11 am by Mark Wilson

Great Comedy Returns With Heartfelt Tribute: LWIL September 20 – 26 2022-11-30T01:11:06-05:00 Mark Wilson

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Last Week In Life:

September 20, 2021- September 26, 2021

I laid out the skeleton of this on September 22. I wonder how the flesh of the week will have been filled in by the 19th.

As I am moving, I have less time for sitting at the computer as I am packing, cleaning, eating, going to work.
I should be praying. I wish I could be sleeping. But I’m sinful.
But I still manage to write.
For Good or for Bad here is…

Last Week’s SPECTACULAR STORY OF WEEK

Great Comedy Returns With Heartfelt Tribute

One of the best reasons to click on TV and laugh has been granted to viewers once again with the season 9 premiere of ‘The Goldbergs’. The Goldbergs is also a smorgasbord of 80’s nostalgia. The Goldbergs is one of the few TV comedies that is actually based upon real life, and in this case being the young life of TV producer. Adam F. Goldberg. In the show real life 80’s Adam is portrayed by Generation Z actor Sean Giambrone.

Adam was a lot like me growing up. We both grew up in the 80’s and loved movies, TV and making them with our own handy dandy video cameras. You can see these home movies of Adam at the end of most episodes of ‘The Goldbergs’. I have a few online and want to upload more. Unlike me, he grew up and went to Hollywood and I currently work at a nursing home soon to work in another nursing home serving food to the elderly in the last years of their life.

In the last years of his life actor George Segal portrayed Adam’s partner in crime, Pops. He was the willing accomplice in Adam’s home movies, like my mother was for me. She once played a raging buffalo in my Lewis and Clark history film. George was one of the first American film actors to rise to leading man status with an unchanged Jewish surname, helping pave the way for other major actors of his generation.

The season premiere is extra special because…

Although The Goldbergs wrapped Season 8 back in the spring with a finale that was as funny as could be expected from the hit ABC comedy, there was an element of real-life tragedy due to the passing of George Segal, who played Pops from the very beginning. Segal died just a couple of days before filming finished on the eighth season, so the plot of the story didn’t have time to acknowledge the loss. Instead, The Goldbergs dedicated the full Season 9 premiere to saying goodbye to Pops (and George Segal), and it found the perfectly bittersweet way to do it. And it involved an homage to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, in true Goldbergs style. How The Goldbergs Said The Perfect Goodbye To George Segal’s Pops In Season 9 Premiere – CINEMABLEND

The Goldbergs is usually followed by another groundbreaking comedy like Trophy Wife, Speechless a comedy with main character portrayed an actor with cerebral palsy named Micah Fowler and the Goldberg’s spinoff Schooled.

And now there comes the revival of the 80’s dramady ‘The Wonder Years’, about life in the 60’s. The iconic TV series starring Fred Savage returns with a look at a black family during the time period as the first series. The first episode is directed by none other then Fred Savage itself.

We are living in such a polarized era, in which the days feel so off-kilter that it can be easy to forget that this country has found its way through equally tumultuous moments in the past. Revising “The Wonder Years” provides a clear throughline into that past and allows viewers to connect modern-day movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo to a previous era. Of course, telling our history through a sitcom makes it more digestible for those who may otherwise dismiss these important topics.

Despite the uncertainty and the chaos of the ’60s, so much of what made the original series magnetic was its reckoning with the cares and concerns of tweens and teens. Like its predecessor, this version of “The Wonder Years” vividly captures the last few years of “pure unadulterated childhood” — as adult Kevin puts it in the original series pilot. This time, they are experienced by Kevin’s counterpart, Dean (Elisha “EJ” Williams), as perceived with the hindsight of his adult self. ABC’s reboot of ‘The Wonder Years’ recaptures the dramedy’s magic and adds its own (nbcnews.com)

So if your looking for some real great comedy with heart and nostalgia tune into the Goldbergs and the newly revised Wonder Years.

Last Week’s Other Stories, Articles and Things

Tito Edwards – NCRegister The Best In Catholic Blogging

The Amazing Nun Who Saved Jews During WWII & Canonized by Pope Francis – (churchpop.com)

Inspired by the life of St. Bridget of Sweden, Hesselblad founded a new religious order for women dedicated to serving the sick. Her first house was in her homeland of Sweden, but it quickly spread: during her lifetime her order opened houses in England, India, and Italy.

During WWII, she used those houses as safe havens for Jews and others targeted by Nazis for violence and killing. She also dedicated her life to ecumenism and fighting racism – and her work bore fruit: she personally contributed to the conversion of a baptist minister and Jewish rabbi in Rome.

While on her deathbed in 1957, her parting words to her sisters were “Go to Heaven with hands full of love and virtues.”

America’s longest-living married couple celebrates 86th anniversary (wcvb.com)

Kohler, 104, and his wife, Dorothy, 103, of Palm Springs, California, are the longest-living married couple.

Kohler told KESQ they got married in Nebraska in 1935 when they were 18 and 17 years old, respectively. The rest is history — literally — considering their marriage was given Congressional recognition last year.

I Might Believe in Faeries

By Aaron Irber

This is a podcast about stories, myths and Catholicism. Stories are how we orient ourselves in the world. In Catholicism, we believe in the Greatest Story: Christ crucified and resurrected. We participate in His story through ritual worship; the liturgy. Even in the Catholic Church, these truths are often forgotten or ignored. My mission for this podcast is to explore storytelling, myths, and how these fit into Catholicism. I will cover Catholic fantasy and science fiction authors, mythology, folklore and the Catholic faith.

Doctor who has lost over 100 patients to covid says some deny virus from their deathbeds: ‘I don’t believe you’

Throughout most of 2020,Trunsky and his staff faced surge after surge of coronavirus patients. So when the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first vaccine last December, Trunsky said morale and hope were restored at his hospital.That did not last long, though. As vaccination rates plateaued and the highly contagious delta variant began to spread, hospital beds began filling back up.

Trunsky said patients he sees give different reasons for not taking one of the vaccines. Some, he said, regret the decision — like a nursing mother who said she was concerned about how a vaccine might affect her newborn baby.Others, Trunsky said, remain convinced they made the right choice — even on their deathbeds.

Where is Weird Al?

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