Something Old, Nothing New

The March 1 DVD releases I mentioned below actually turn out to be only two of six classic comedies that WB home video is releasing on that ...

Looks like March 1, 2005 will bring some special editions of movies starring Cary Grant: a two-disc special edition of The Philadelphia Stor...

This four year-old article on fan fiction now seems very quaint, and not just because it reminds us of a time when online culture was more ...

I've been listening to a wonderful recording of Mahler's Das Lied Von Der Erde , a 1970 Bavarian Radio performance with Janet Baker ...

This should be the day when everyone is watching the WKRP in Cincinnati episode, "Turkey's Away." Unfortunately, because of ...

This semi-recent article on Budd Schulberg (the author of What Makes Sammy Run? and On the Waterfront ) is pretty good as such things go, ...

The critic Walter Kerr had a famous line in his review of Neil Simon's The Star-Spangled Girl (1967): "Neil Simon didn't have ...

In the process of my too-long post about Seanbaby , I forgot to say much about my favorite feature of the site: The Hostess Page. In the ...

Cy Coleman died today. He was an extraordinarily versatile composer, re-inventing his style for every Broadway show he did: contemporary r...

Readers of this blog may occasionally notice that I have a kind of premature nostalgia for the Internet culture of the '90s. Before blo...

[From my "silly stuff I wrote and am never going to get to use anywhere else" file] As I look back on the '60s, the thing ...

I just happened upon a list of the Harvard Lampoon 's selections, year by year, for Worst Movies of the Year . Some may recall that Nat...

I've always been fascinated by the culture of the early '60s, and this article by Bruce Bawer, "The Other Sixties," gives...

I haven't really been following Desperate Housewives, and as a new show it isn't a subject for this blog, but I'm amused to no...

Blake Edwards is one director whose movies have benefited a lot from the advent of DVD. Ever since The Pink Panther in 1963, Edwards has ...

Sorry for the hiatus. That would have been a good time for me to turn things over to a guest blogger, but it turns out that 99% of people i...

The first season of Night Court was just announced for February 5. This show was, of NBC's famous '80s Thursday night lineup ( Che...

I would hope that most people reading this blog would have gotten the new Marx Brothers DVD collection (hardly any extras and the films aren...

I've been asked why I didn't write anything about Howard Keel . The answer is that I really don't know that much about him -- i...

Bill James once wrote about a particular baseball team that its lesson was "that you can, in fact, have too much pitching": if a t...