Q: Whenever we watch "M*A*S*H" reruns, we notice that many of the episodes were directed by Jackie Cooper. Is this the same Jackie Cooper who was a child star in the 1930s? Where is he now?
A: It rsquo;s the same Cooper. His film credits date to 1929, and he went on to direct lots of TV, including episodes of "The Rockford Files," "Cagney and Lacey" and "Magnum, P.I.
" He won Emmy Awards in 1974 and 1979 for directing episodes of "M*A*S*H" and "The White Shadow," respectively. Cooper is 84.
Q: On a ski vacation in the early 1970s, I saw a part of a movie that had a double name.
The title included something like "Pardon Me, But My Teeth Are in Your Neck." My buddy said it was a classic vampire or horror movie. Can you tell me the full title and if it rsquo;s available?
A: It rsquo;s available, but "classic" might be pushing it a bit. The movie is the 1967 British film "Dance of the Vampires," which was released in the United States as "The Fearless Vampire Killers" and also as "The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are in My Neck." It was directed and co-written by Roman Polanski, who went on to give us "Chinatown" and "The Pianist," and it stars Sharon Tate, who married Polanski after this film was made and was brutally murdered by Charles Manson and his followers in 1969.
The film is on video and DVD.
Q: I have a dinner bet with my girlfriend that Jack Cassidy (father of David) was not western actor Hopalong Cassidy. Please settle.
A: Hopalong Cassidy was actually a fellow named William Boyd, who played Cassidy in a bunch of western movies in the rsquo;30s and rsquo;40s and then sold them to television in the late 1940s, making a mint. In other words, he was not ever Jack Cassidy.
Q: All the hubbub about Bob Barker leaving "The Price Is Right" made me think of another show he hosted about 25 years ago.
No one else remembers it -- they all think I rsquo;m thinking about "The Price Is Right." Please tell them there was another show!
A: Dear Everyone in the Whole World: There was another show, people!
It was "That rsquo;s My Line," a short-lived show in the mold of "Real People," focusing on people and their weird professions, like writing smart-alecky answers to TV trivia questions. Barker hosted, and it ran for a few weeks on CBS in 1980.
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