Linda Blair on the condition she put forth before agreeing to star in "Repossessed" (1990)- a spoof of "The Exorcist" (1973):
"[I agreed to do it] Because it’s a comedy. It’s a spoof of all occult pictures. Now maybe I can get the monkey off my back. Bob Logan talked me into doing a spoof of ‘The Exorcist’ because he knew I wanted to lay that image to rest.
I didn’t want to do it until Carolco Pictures called and asked me what it would take for me to do the film. Bob promised we could do it like ‘The Naked Gun’ (1988) and ‘Airplane!’ (1980). But I would agree only if they got Leslie Nielsen for the priest.
They contacted Leslie, who thought the script was hilarious. He agreed to play the role.
There’s a subtlety in the name of my character in ‘Repossessed.’ In ‘The Exorcist,’ I played Regan, right? This time, my name is Nancy. Ha!"
("Possessive Type : Linda Blair Returns in 'Exorcist' Spoof", Vernon Scott, Los Angeles Times, 1990)
Part of why I wanted to create This Was SportsCenter: take you behind the scenes of some of the competition BETWEEN the anchors going on at the time. When Keith Olbermann left, it sparked an unofficial audition amongst the anchors to get the seat next to Dan Patrick. I talk about it with DP in this clip, with Stuart Scott and his legendary competitive nature taking center stage for both us…but in completely different ways.
Happy 48th Birthday to Bill Hader!
To celebrate, here’s Martin Short as the hilariously clueless Jiminy Glick interviewing Hader, a comedy pairing that never fails to deliver. 🎂😂
In the inaugural episode of ‘This Was SportsCenter’, Dan Patrick joined the show and told the story of the role he had in the origin of the “This Is SportsCenter” series of commercials… and reveals to us which of his MANY appearances in these commercials was his favorite:
When Guinness World Records stopped tracking the record for the most beer consumed in one hour in 1989, the title was still held by 23-year-old Jack Keyes. He had set the mark two decades earlier in Northern Ireland, reportedly drinking 36 pints in a single hour in 1969.
Thirty-six pints in sixty minutes. That’s one pint every 100 seconds—a rate so extreme it seems to challenge the limits of human physiology.
A standard pint contains 568 milliliters, meaning Jack Keyes reportedly drank more than 20 liters of beer in a single hour in Belfast in 1969. For comparison, the human stomach comfortably holds about one liter at a time.
Keyes was only 23 years old when he set the record. It remained untouched in the Guinness books for two decades before Guinness World Records quietly discontinued the category in 1989, citing concerns about encouraging dangerous drinking behavior.
There was no grand finale and no last attempt to break it. The record was simply retired, leaving Keyes permanently listed as its final holder.
Ironically, Guinness World Records itself originated from a disagreement in a pub. In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, managing director of the Guinness brewery, became involved in an argument over which European game bird was the fastest. When no definitive source could settle the debate, he saw an opportunity and commissioned a reference book to answer such questions. That idea eventually grew into the world-famous Guinness World Records.