Having just completed another weekend of watching wall-to-wall football (doesn't everybody?), it's an appropriate time to tell you, again, what they're doing with Super Bowl Sunday. The game, if you haven't heard, will be in New York next month. Okay, in East Rutherford, N.J., a short ride from the Big Apple. Since it will be… Continue reading Party As Tough To Crash As The Super Bowl?
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Does Nobody Love The Love Boat?
By today's grandiose standards for cruise ships, the old "Love Boat" of TV fame might well be called a bucket of bolts. But the fact it's being reduced to that is, well, kind of sad. This year, she is bound for Turkey. Her final hours will take place in a shipyard not far from the… Continue reading Does Nobody Love The Love Boat?
Gavin MacLeod, The Captain and More
Part 3: The post-Love Boat Years The TV series The Love Boat ran from 1977 to 1986. For the quarter century that has followed, both characters have continued to entertain television aficionados and cruise ship passengers alike. While there's so much more to Gavin MacLeod than Captain Stubing, they share one majorcharacteristic. If the Captain… Continue reading Gavin MacLeod, The Captain and More
Perfect Name Suddenly Popular
Think about it. People, generally, go on cruises in search of sunshine and warmth. So now, after decades of naming cruise ships, one of them will be christened Sunshine. Almost simultaneously, another cruise line is about to unveil a new category of ships called…wait for it, Sunshine. What took so long? Where have the ad… Continue reading Perfect Name Suddenly Popular
Meeting of Love Boat Captains
Several months ago on this blog, we introduced you to a Love Boat built with Lego® and the man who had no life…er, the man who built it. His name is Ryan McNaught and when he put a quarter of a million little Lego pieces together he produced a remarkable model of TV’s most famous… Continue reading Meeting of Love Boat Captains