Something Old, Nothing New

I re-watched some episodes of WKRP In Cincinnati (aka the show that just can't quite make it to DVD), and was reminded that between the...

Sad but not unexpected news: the WWWF Grudge Match is shutting down. Since Steve Levine and Brian Wright founded it in 1995, it was the p...

Since I was writing about the Production Code in a previous post... one movie that provides an interesting glimpse into the way the Code was...

This blog is not and never will be political (even if I do revamp it, which at this point is looking unlikely, it'll never, ever be a po...

It seems to me that movie buffs nowadays know more about the Hollywood Production Code than people did when it was being enforced. Oh, sure...

I have a piece up at The Morning News , a short (hopefully) humorous piece called "Wagner's The Breakfast Club " . If you...

I can't post today, but one of the nice things about doing a blog about non-current stuff is that the posts don't date as fast as th...

There was a poll to determine the most deserving directors, actors and actresses who never won an Academy Award; the polling for the actors...

If you're looking for the legacy of Johnny Carson, you won't find it in the shows themselves, which are, like all talk shows, essent...

I've been re-reading a collection of P.G. Wodehouse short stories, Lord Emsworth Acts For the Best . This collects together the stories...

Another bit of DVD news: Warner Brothers will release an Errol Flynn collection on April 12, consisting of three Korngold-scored period film...

I never did figure out how to retool the blog, so I just came back with a few more random posts: scroll down for posts on opera DVDs, a sill...

Audio opera recordings are close to being dead. They're too expensive to make, too expensive to buy, and even the reasonably successful...

I have a certain bizarre affection for Hunter , probably because it was one of the few action-adventure shows of the '80s to have a real...

The death of Virginia Mayo didn't get a lot of coverage; as this obituary makes clear, she didn't make a lot of memorable movies, ...

For those who are reading this too-infrequently-updated blog, I'm going to be away from blogging for at least the next week. I have som...

For those who like the backgrounds of old Warner Brothers cartoons, here's something that might interest you: a reproduction of a painti...

An explanation about the "Blog of Isaiah" post: it was one of those things I wrote and didn't have any idea what to do with, s...

Season 1 of The Bob Newhart Show will be released by Fox (which owns all the MTM shows) on April 12. This is, in general, one of those ...

Every time I get too nostalgic for the Golden Age of Usenet newsgroups -- which, as I've said before, ended somewhere around the time wh...