Something Old, Nothing New

One more post about The Bad and the Beautiful , but this time not blathering on about the length of shots. Having seen the movie again -- a...

Follow-up to my previous post about "Happy Days," here's a little Associated Press item where creator Garry Marshall more or...

Like many Canadians, my interest in the Olympics basically died in 1988 when Ben Johnson got stripped of his medals and records. After that...

This is one of those posts that deals with a very minor topic, so beware. I've previously noted that the director Vincente Minnelli fa...

My last couple of posts about musicals have been about shows whose cast albums aren't readily available, so here's a post about an o...

All this talk of Looney Tunes (see below) has got me to thinking: of all the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies characters, the one whose populari...

Based on lists of extras that have appeared in various places (notably at Cartoon Brew and TV Shows on DVD , here's a list of the carto...

Jerry Beck has the list of extras for the next Looney Tunes Golden Collection, to be released November 2. (The complete list of cartoons i...

David Raksin , one of the best American film composers, died Monday. Here's a link to an interview he did in 1998. My favorite Raksin...

I once read an article -- unfortunately I can't remember where I read it or the name of the author -- written in the early '50s, whe...

How long will reality shows continue to dominate television? I'd guess that, as with prime-time game shows in the late '50s, the po...

Canada's cartoon channel, Teletoon, follows the two basic principles of Canadian cable TV: 1) Never show an older show if you can help i...

Tomorrow brings the DVD release of The Bad Seed , the nutty movie based on the nutty Maxwell Anderson play based on William March's nutt...

I don't have much to write about today, but I was talking to someone about '80s culture (yes, that's all I ever talk about) and ...

I saw the new DVD set of the first season of Happy Days , which will be released August 17, and I can definitely recommend it. There are no...

I wanted to write something more about Bob Merrill. I previously mentioned this Mark Steyn article , written for Slate soon after Merrill...

So, finally, I have something about the last of the Warner/Spielberg cartoons of the '90s (the others, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Frea...