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The Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show is proof that history does repeat itself. The end of the halftime show became a replay of what happened on May 6, 1997, on KCAL-Channel 9. On that day, Channel 9 was airing an Anaheim Mighty Ducks Stanley Cup playoff game. Prior to the start of that game, Lucy Lawless of "Xena:Warrior Princess" fame sang the National Anthem (why get a New Zealander to sing our National Anthem?) Near the conclusion of the Anthem, Lucy's left breast popped out of her red bodysuit--her "out-of-bodice" experience--and this ultimately embarrassed Channel 9 and its GM, Don Corsini. Angry viewers called K-CAL 9. The FCC fined K-CAL 9 thousands of dollars for violation of FCC obscenity rules. KCAL lost Mighty Ducks rights in 2003. Flash forward to February 1, 2004. KCBS CBS2 was one of the many affiliates carrying the Super Bowl. The halftime show ended when Timberlake unexpectedly ripped Jackson's top apart, doing the same thing that happened to Lawless seven years before. Angry viewers soon called every CBS affiliate including CBS2. CBS has been fined for violation of FCC obscenity rules. The GM of CBS2? Don Corsini, who also is the head of --you guessed it--K-CAL 9.

June 18, 2000: "Strip Mall's" first episode ever. Created by lead actress Julie Brown, who also was the show's executive producer, this sitcom explained the lives of the people working in the Plaza del Toro shopping center in Van Nuys, California, a district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley as well as Brown's hometown. Brown was cast as Tammi Tyler, a former child actress whose career had come to an unceremonious end in the late 1960's when Capt. Billy of the series "Here Comes Corky" on which Tammi appeared in was shot and killed. Tyler, who had eaten a cupcake laced with PCP, was blamed for the murder. Now she was working as a waitress at a restaurant at the plaza. In the pilot, Tammi and laundromat owner Harvey Krudup (Jim O'Heir) were married, just as Tammi's acting career was about to make a resurrection. "I broke up with Blank (Bob Koherr, who also played Blair and, for the first two episodes, Blunt)!" Tammi sadly explained to close friend Patti (Victoria Jackson). After Patti explained to Tammi that "you did the right thing," Tammi, drank a margarita but spit it out, adding, "Why do the good ones always have to go away?" Blank had been Tammi's boyfriend before she married Harvey. "Blunt's Bad Idea" was the hilarious pilot episode of this short-lived sitcom; in the second episode, "Tammi Settles In," Blunt was killed.

-For the final season of the TV series "In Living Color," most of the cast members were white.
-The 1995-98 CBS sitcom "Cybill" was filmed in New York City (at Kauffman Astoria Studios)
-The 1988 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" was filmed in England.
-The song "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" was based, ironically, on the fact that its singer, actress and comedienne Julie Brown--who also cowrote the song--was almost elected homecoming queen at celebrity factory Van Nuys High School. Instead of being disappointed, she fought back and began writing and recording songs parodying everything her friends enjoyed. Songs like this, "'Cause I'm A Blond," "I Like Them Big and Stupid," "Earth Girls are Easy"(also the title of a 1989 movie which she cowrote and costarred) and "Girl Fight Tonight." Thus the career of one of the sexiest and most energetic (and one of the most uninhibited) comediennes of all time was born. Today, eighteen years after this song came out, Ms. Brown remains a comic sex symbol.
-Psychic Jeane Dixon in 1997 predicted that a famous person "would leave a nation in mourning within weeks." It turned out to be her last prediction ever; a few weeks afterwords, she died of a heart attack.
-When the NFL left Los Angeles for the first time in 1994, it drew protest from many Angelenos. It is hard to call a major league truly professional without Los Angeles.
-Los Angeles' economy during the 1980's was marred somewhat by the Great Actors' Strike of 1980 and the writers' strikes of 1981 and 1988.
-"L.A. Confidential," and TV movies of recent years set in Los Angeles during its past were filmed in parts of Australia (Melbourne now looks more like 1950's Los Angeles than today's Los Angeles does.) In addition, 'Training Day," which starred Denzel Washington, was also filmed in Melbourne.