Ricardo Montalbán

@pmarin ah yes!
/image the Chrysler Cordoba

With rich Corinthian Leather - made in New Jersey
https://www.libertyleathergoods.com/corinthian-leather/

@pmarin @ybmuG Hey, it’s vegan leather, you know!

@Kyeh @pmarin comes from vegan cows

@pmarin @ybmuG
In other words, cows.

But it doesn’t. It comes from Naugas!

@Kyeh @pmarin @ybmuG Is this, by chance, a subtle homage to Larry??

@Kyeh @pmarin @ybmuG Nope, real leather. From New Jersey.

@blaineg @pmarin @ybmuG Oh yeah … you guys are right; I guess I got carried away with the opportunity to ridicule the term “vegan leather.”

@blaineg No love for The Wreath of Khan?

@chienfou

@Kyeh
Thanks. Almost posted the Perry Como version. then forgot!

@ybmuG IMHO, Airplane! was the zanier version of Zero Hour!

@OnionSoup Looking at his eyes, I’d guess he’s not well… he might have a temperature.

@ItalianScallion yes, something above 310.15K I would suspect.

@llangley nice double!

@OnionSoup Remember the song well but never saw the video. Also at one point there was an English version but the German language version was better. I understood enough German to know what was going on in it.

Also an anti-war song from 40 years ago about how easy it is to get into lengthy destructive wars.

@pmarin yes, the German version is better. They changed it to red balloons in English “99 red balloons”

@heartny
/youtube Animaniacs perry coma

@yakkoTDI And if you need a little variety.

@ItalianScallion Best part of that movie.

@llangley Holy cow!

@llangley Appropriate for tonight’s offer!

@ItalianScallion nice one!!! I probably would’ve picked Allman Brothers since they’re more in my wheelhouse but this is great

Which brings us back to Ricardo Montalbán! So we can start a new randrom free association thread! Who’s up for it?

@Kyeh i was thinking Lucy would lead to Ricky and be then back to Ricardo, but this was a fun twist! Tell you what - I’ll start the next one at Ricky.

@ybmuG Great!
Also I never knew that about Lucille Ball, that’s so cool.

@Kyeh I assume it’s true. I had heard something to that effect before. I should probably check something like Star Trek wiki

@ybmuG Your link went to a persuasive explanation, so I believe it!

@Kyeh Well - kinda like true. From Fandom Memory Alpha

Most crucially, however, it actually had been Ball who had saved Star Trek from cancellation for the very first time, but not directly after the initial “too cerebral” refusal in February 1965 by NBC as claimed by Roddenberry in later years and taken as gospel by 1970s-2000s “Trekdom”. One year later, in February 1966, her small studio found itself unexpectedly confronted with the production of three expensive television properties, all brought in by Oscar Katz and Herb Solow (who were specifically hired to do so, in order to safeguard the future existence of the ailing studio), where there had only been one before, her own I Love Lucy show. Under advisement were Star Trek, the action series Mission: Impossible and the western series The Long Hunt of April Savage (also produced by Roddenberry between the first and second Star Trek pilots), and the conservative board of directors feared, not unjustified, that the studio would financially overstretch itself. Vigorously defended by Solow, not a voting board member but a firm believer in the show, and despite the fact that Star Trek was already picked up by NBC after the second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, had been produced, virtually the entire board (including her second husband Morton and her brother Fred, but save for executive Bernard Weitzman) unanimously voted to cancel Star Trek. Katz was also a voting board member, but was not present as he was already on his way out. Yet, as Chairwoman of the Board, Ball had the power to override her board, and this she did with a mere nod of her head towards Solow. “That was all Star Trek needed,” as author Cushman had succinctly put it, “A nod of Lucille Ball.” (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 1st ed, pp. 32, 94) For all intents and purposes, and contrary to widely held beliefs in Star Trek-lore, this was factually the very first time that The Original Series came exceedingly close to cancellation, were it not for Lucille Ball, or as one of the other nay-sayers on the board, studio accountant Edwin “Ed” Holly, later conceded, “If it were not for Lucy, there would be no ‘Star Trek’ today.”

@ybmuG I see.