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A Salute to House Peters, Jr.

4 October 2008 4:19 PM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

We here at ComicMix pride ourselves on being not only a comic book site, but also a pop culture site and so we cannot let the passing of House Peters, Jr. go by without noting it. The actor, born January 12, 1916, died from pneumonia on October 1.

Who you might wonder?  The actor was the model for Proctor & Gamble’s Mr. Clean, an icon that has gone largely unchanged.

The actor also had an early role as a Sharkman in the original 1936 Flash Gordon serial.

His son Jon Peters said in a release, "he always played the heavy. Even though he wasn't happy about being cast in those roles, he worked really hard at it."

Peters’ credits include roles in The Twilight Zone (1960), Target Earth (1954), Port Sinister (1953), Red Planet Mars (1952), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), King of the Rocket Men (1949), and Batman and Robin (1949). It wasn’t until he starred in

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Name-droppers Take Low Road

13 July 2008 1:16 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

America, land of the free - home of the grave. After somebody goes to that great big planet in the sky, next up comes a street, a park, a bowling alley named for them.

The Triborough is now suddenly osmosing into the Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. Not a bad idea. This way, tourists looking to drive to Radio City and then Queens will ask locals for the Avenue of the Americas followed by the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive so they can go over the Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Bridge

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By CINDY ADAMS

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When Major Leaguers Play Themselves: "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"

4 April 2008 7:38 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer

In honor of the start of the 2008 baseball season, Ifc.com will be paying tribute to the national pastime's long relationship with the movies every day this week by giving you everything you'd ever want to know about the odd little quasi-autobiographical ditties in which baseball players have played themselves. Peanuts and crackerjacks not included.

"Manhattan Merry-Go-Round" (1937)

Directed by Charles Reisner

As Himself: Joe DiMaggio

Game Summary: This mostly tepid musical revolves around a bunch of mobsters who take over a record company and then use their muscle to convince a bunch of popular acts to play for them, which precipitates musical performances in the film from Gene Autry, Cab Calloway and Louis Prima, who actually performs on a working merry-go-round planted on the middle of a nightclub dance floor. DiMaggio's in the wrong place at the wrong time; he shows up late to a radio show

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Matt Singer

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