VIDEO: Happy Birthday To Rick Astley – Carla Rea Shares A Throwback Video

Happy Birthday to Rick Astley! 

I will always feel that I have a special bond Rick Astley after doing a really fun interview with him several years back 92017). So I'm never gonna give him up, never gonna let him down on this, his 57th birthday.

I bought a Casio Keyboard in the late 8o's, and every time I turned it on I was rick-rolled, because it played a really cheesy version of his song. "Together Forever." I would, of course, torment my then roommates with it every chance I got, because it was just so damn catchy!

Where did Rick-rolling actually come from?

Rick-rolling seems to have started in 2007 on the image board 4chan. The first-ever rick-roll involved a link promising to be a trailer for the game “Grand Theft Auto IV,” that instead took excited gamers to the “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video. (Cue the laughter!)

The Rick part of Rick-rolling comes from Astley’s first name (of course), but where does the roll part come from? Turns out that also started on 4chan, according to Know Your Meme.

In the mid-2000s, the *then*director of the site, decided to prank users by changing all instances of the word egg to duck. This, of course, changed the word eggroll to duckroll, which created such an amusing mental image that someone photoshopped wheels onto a picture of a duck. Suddenly 4chan users were posting bait-and-switch links that led people to a wheeled-duck image. This took on the name duckrolling. Since 2007, rickrolling has taken on a life of its own.

In 2008, Astley contributed to a live-action rickroll during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade when he emerged from inside a Cartoon Network float to sing his famous song. By 2011, rickrolling had become so mainstream that the White House’s official Twitter handle sent users to the video of “Never Gonna Give You Up” after a user complained that the correspondence briefing from that day wasn’t as entertaining as the one from the day before.

Enjoy my interview with Rick Astley! Oh, and definitely rickroll someone today, for old time sake!

The New York Times calls "Poker Face" "the Best New Detective Show of 1973!"

It's done like an old school "case-of-the-week" murder mystery series. It follows Natasha Lyonne (Nicky, from Orange is the New Black) as Charlie Cale, a casino worker on the run who gets tangled up in mysterious deaths of strangers along the way.

Charlie is a human lie-detector who is quick to call BS. She's a cocktail waitress in a Las Vegas casino, living in a trailer and hiding out, because of a reputation for cheating in poker. Turns out, it’s suspicious to have a 100% accuracy read for bluffing. Her unusual talent draws the interest of a seedy casino boss, Sterling Frost Jr, played by Adrien Brody, for a revenge plot. And the antics begin!

Peacock released the first four episodes this week. They say the show isn't really built for bingeing - but in a good way. Episodes will come out weekly, which makes it better for appreciating the show’s meandering pace and an all-star roster of guest stars.

Guest stars include John Ratzenberger, Tim Meadows, Ellen Barkin, Judith Light, Chloë Sevigny, and Simon Helberg, among others. Their faces, as with most everything about Poker Face, are familiar and fun, and the show is that much better because of them.

After watching the first few episodes of "Poker Face." it definitely feels very reminiscent of Columbo. Each episode begins by showing the crime being committed, then following Charlie as she hunts down the perp. The difference is that she isn’t asked to investigate. Instead, she was kind of there all along, often working a job that somehow put her in the killer’s life.

I look forward to watching more episodes, and continuing on as Peacock releases them - it's a fun series!

Here are some movies and TV shows that were based and/or filmed in Las Vegas - did they do a decent job of portraying the city?

-Carla Rea

Producers, and some cast members of the original series would stop by the Clark County Coroners Office in Las Vegas each year, to look at cases.

“GLOW” is a Netflix series that makes the list of Las Vegas TV series because of its third season. It's a comedy/drama centered around women’s professional wrestling in the 1980s. The first two seasons were filmed all around L.A., the third season brought the cast to Las Vegas, where the original series was also filmed.

Probably one of the most iconic "Vegas" movies ever.

What do the original “Ocean’s Eleven” and the remake have in common? Beautiful actors!  The 1960 version: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Angie Dickinson. The 2001 version: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Julia Roberts. 

“The Hangover” was actually filmed almost entirely in Las Vegas. Bradley Cooper (Phil), Ed Helms (Stew), and Zach Galifianakis (Allen) wake up after a bachelor party in Vegas with the bachelor missing, and their memories of the night completely gone. Sound familiar?