Remember Yvonne Craig? She's probably most well-known for her role as Batgirl in the original 1960s Batman series. But in a career that spanned over 70 years, she did a lot more than fight alongside the Caped Crusaders.

I remember her in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mod Squad, Gidget, Perry Mason, McHale's Navy, My Three Sons, Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man, Starsky and Hutch, Fantasy Island...and I'm sure there are more that I don't remember!

But my absolute favorite role that she played was Marta, the green woman who wanted to kill Captain Kirk in Star Trek. 

Her long resume shows what a great actress she was. But her dying wish is what cements her legacy as a class act. According to her family she asked that "no one waste a moment of their time in mourning for her loss in sadness but instead celebrate the awesome life she had been fortunate enough to live".

So I won't waste a moment in mourning. But I will go and watch all those shows again to celebrate her "awesome life".

I remember watching Sunday football games with my dad almost every weekend. It was a great way to spend time together and an even better way for both of us to get out of yard work – at least for an afternoon. But we might not have had all that leisure time if it hadn't been for a meeting of the minds 95 years ago.

On August 20, 1920, the owners of four Ohio League teams – the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians and Dayton Triangles – met to form a new professional league. Legendary all-around athlete and football star Jim Thorpe was nominated as president of the new league in hopes that people would take it seriously. The meeting led to the creation of the American Professional Football Conference (APFC), the forerunner to the National Football League that we all know and love today.

95 years later, pro football is one of America's favorite sports and I'm still using game day to get out of doing yard work!

Are you watching CNN's The Seventies? I'm addicted. I admit it. I set my DVR every week, but I end up watching it live anyway.

Last night's installment was about the music of the seventies. I was somewhat shocked and dismayed to discover that the 46th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival is this Saturday (Aug. 15). That means that Woodstock — the event that defined a counterculture — is pushing 50 years old.

Young people then were eager to break out of the mold their parents had created for them. Unlike the previous generation, kids weren't looking to grow up, get a good job, get married, have kids of their own, and retire comfortably. It was all about peace and love and music back then. Jobs didn't matter; money didn't matter; nothing mattered but peace and love and, of course, music.

So where are those idealistic kids almost 50 years later? Most of us did exactly what we said we wouldn't: we got jobs, got married, had kids and started saving for retirement. But that's nothing to fret about. Because I don't think any of us have forgotten the defining spirit of "peace and music" that actually straddled two decades: the sixties and the seventies!

Just like our t-shirt says, I may be old, but I got to see all the cool bands. Well, maybe not all. But a lot. I was watching The Midnight Special on DVD the other night and I realized just how much really great music I got to see and hear when I was growing up — and after. (You know, before I really grew up.)

I'll never forget the first time I saw Pink Floyd. Their light show was like nothing no one had ever done before. Way ahead of their time. And Kiss. At first I thought their costumes were ridiculous (I wasn't the only one). But when they hit the stage, their groove was irresistible. Those four really knew how to “rock and roll all nite”! I was lucky enough to see some of the best bands, including the Doobie Brothers, Journey, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, Van Morrison, Rod Stewart, Santana and Fleetwood Mac (both before and after they were a blues band).

I'll still go to rock concerts now and then. Maybe I'm too old to still enjoy that ringing in my ears that lasts for days. But I do. Maybe I'm too old to shake my fist and sing “and party every day!” But I do. And maybe people think I'm a bit too old for rock concerts. But they're wrong.

I might be a little older, but I'm still going to see all the cool bands.

Subscribers to Netflix were horrified to learn this week that the online streaming service is removing Titanic from its lineup.

There'll be no more Jack Dawson for us. No more “poor Jack” dancing on the decks below the rich folk. No more of Jack's reckless gambling. No more showing a trusting Kate how to fly.

Social media was all abuzz about Netflix's latest removals (and additions) and hundreds of us went straight home to settle in and watch our favorite disaster movie one more time. Or, as in my case, two more times.

Maybe it was a coincidence, but just as Netflix made their announcement, a real-life Kate Winslet recreated the famous flying scene as she climbed down a mountain head first on Running Wild with Bear Grylls. I watched it several times on YouTube. It wasn't quite the same, but I guess it will have to do until Titanic comes back.

I saw the movie Pixels last night and it really took me back — to the arcade! It's an 8-bit adventure starring some of our favorite old school video game heroes. Oh, and Adam Sandler.

Sandler plays an underachieving, somewhat dim-witted former teen video game champion whose even dimmer best friend (Kevin James) somehow grows up to be President of the United States.

Enter the aliens. They get a hold of some 1982 pop-culture highlight clips and mistake images from classic arcade games as a military threat. The aliens respond by disguising themselves as Centipede and Pac-Man and attacking the Earth. Sandler, of course, is called on to…that's all I'll say so I don't spoil the movie for you.

If you do go see Pixels, be prepared to get all nostalgic for your long lost, 8-bit buddies from video games of yesteryear. And don't be surprised if you find yourself digging through the attic for your old Atari console — I did!

I suppose I'm dating myself when I say I've watched Saturday Night Live from the very first airing. That was long before people called it “SNL”. You know, “back in the day” when the Not Ready for Primetime Players were in their prime. It's hard to believe that SNL celebrated its 40^th anniversary this year.

Since I never stopped watching (even through those dark days when critics were calling it “Saturday Night Dead”) I've become a bit of a SNL trivia buff. In honor of 40 years of silly fun, edgy humor and unforgettable characters, I thought I'd share some little-known tidbits with you.

• Gilda Radner was the first performer cast for Saturday Night Live.
• Before joining SNL, Dana Carvey had a small role in Rob Reiner's cult classic This Is Spinal Tap. He played a mime alongside Billy Crystal.
• Seth Meyer held the Weekend Update anchor chair for eight years — longer than any other cast member.
• Ben Stiller was a cast member in season 14 — but left after only four episodes because of “creative differences”.
• Eddie Murphy joined the show when he was only 19 years old and stayed for four years.
• Steve Martin hosted the show 15 times and did lots of special appearances, but contrary to popular belief, he was never a full-fledged cast member.
• When the show first debuted, it didn't air every Saturday. The news magazine show Weekend aired the first Saturday of every month.
• “The Coneheads” are ranked #15 in TV Guide's list of the “25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends”.
• The Saturday Night Live logo first used the abbreviation SNL in 1995 and it's been called that ever since.

After 40 years, SNL is still funny, still edgy and still churning out crazy characters. I can't wait to see what they'll do for their next 40 years!