It's been running for a while now in heavy rotation on CNN, but we just had to comment about how bizarre the new Ad Council TV spot is that stars Ray Charles and a chorus of dancing crash test dummies. It took us several watchings to realize, to our horror, that Ray is driving the car. Ray is always a good sport, and we're sure he thought the ad would be good fun for a good cause. But if he could see, we wonder if he would be so eager to perform with a bunch of creepy crash test mannequins dancing like a bunch of nerds. Earhart vanished in the South Pacific in 1937 with her navigator, Fred Noonan, as the two attempted to circle the globe.
Nobody knows just what went wrong or exactly where their plane went down.
One expert said the bones were from males, but another claimed that one of the skeletons was of a white female who stood 5 feet 7 inches tall. The skeletons were to be crated for shipment, but the boxes holding them were misplaced. However the Fiji museum shows that they received two wooden boxes containing a pair of skeletons in 1940 that were possibly those of the missing aviators. The Associated Press reports that a research group plans to search the museum archives to see if the remains can be found and verified to be that of Earhart and Noonan. A Very Brady Sequel Shelley Long and Gary Cole recreate their parental TV counterparts, Carol and Mike Brady, as the quintessential 1970s family once again tries to deal with life in the cynical '90s.