May 15, 2009 | The Moxie Blog
If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, and a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block, what do you think the odds would be that you'd end up a Tony winner, a staple of television, and a generational icon? Enter The Life of Reilly.
I'm Playing Match Game Live! Again
I'm getting out my best Brett Somers hair and my curliest Charles Nelson Reilly merkin because it's time for another Match Game Live! , the funsy game show put on by host Bern Lerman for a crowd of panting people, some of whom become wildly lucky enough to get dragged into the action.
Wednesday's agenda: 'Life of Reilly,' Earth Day and a new musical
View 'The Life of Reilly' Say the words 'Charles Nelson Reilly,' and a hilarious, theatrical portrait comes to mind - and the subject is also usually wearing a scarf and saucer-size spectacles and spouting innuendos on a panel of The Match Game or The Hollywood Sq uares in the 1970s.
My mom likes the Game Show Network. She can sit for hours in front of the TV with 1970s episodes of "The Match Game," watching Bert Convy and Zsa Zsa Gabor trade quips with Bret Sommers and Charles Nelson ...