Bob Hope — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

Robert Evans Got High on Himself, and also Cocaine, in the Infamous Anti-Drug Special Get High On Yourself

To promote my extremely available semi-new book The Joy of Trash, I am sharing this excerpt about Robert Evans’ fascinatingly druggy 1981 anti-drug special Get High on Yourself, which feels suspiciously like the product of people getting high on illegal drugs.

The Joy of Trash, Literary excerptNathan RabinJuly 9, 2024Robert Evans, John Travolta, Ted Nugent, Paul Newman, Bob Hope, Muhammad Ali, Magic Johnson, Mark Hamill, Robert Wagner

Frank Tashlin's Career Kicked Off on a High Note with The First Time and Ended Bleakly with the Godawful Bob Hope Vehicle The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell

Frank Tashlin proved a master satirist after making the big leap from cartoons and shorts to live action and features but his career ended on a bleak nadir in the dreadful 1968 Bob Hope vehicle The Private Army of Sgt. O’Farrell

First and Last 2.0Nathan RabinMarch 27, 2023Bob Hope, Frank Tashlin, Phylis Diller, Barbara Hale, Robert Cummings