Something Old, Nothing New

This New York Times article on the rise and fall of National Lampoon prompted me to dig out my copy of "This Side of Parodies" ,...

Screenwriter Ernest Lehman , who died last Saturday at age 89, had an exceptionally high batting average when it came to writing movies; of ...

The site In the '80s has an intriguing section devoted to "Favorite Commercials From Television and Radio in the Eighties" , ...

I'm working on another "Great WB Animators" post that should be up this weekend.

Anyways, to continue on the "King of the Hill Democrats" subject... King of the Hill 's cultural position was always a bit o...

Here's a great site, Michael Hutchins' "A Guide to Leonard Bernstein's Candide . It's an exhaustive resource for fans ...

You've probably seen this New York Times Magazine article by Matt Bai, "King of the Hill" Democrats? , in which he discusses ...

To briefly combine two subjects I've written on quite a lot lately, music clearance costs and classic cartoons: can you imagine what the...

Update , July 8, 2005: Part 2, dealing with two more animators, is here . One of the reasons why Warner Brothers cartoons are so fascinating...

My attempt to work out the new and unexpected template problems provided by the good people at Blogger (those magnificent bastards! ) have s...

Here's a really interesting interview with an independent filmmaker who describes, in detail, the difficulty and expense of clearing th...

I'm still behind on finishing my semi-substantive posts, so here is another exercise in super-frivolity: the lyrics of a song I wrote a ...

I don't know why the page is so hard to read at the moment -- some kink with blogspot, I think. I'll try to fix it.

My favorite meta-joke in the Moonlighting series comes at the start of the episode "Somewhere Under the Rainbow" (aka the leprech...

To whet your appetite for the previously-mentioned Val Lewton Collection , here's a link to an excellent site, The Val Lewton Screenplay...

I have a couple of big-ish posts I'm working on, but in the meantime this blog is distressingly thin lately. I'd write a "comi...

For some reason, even though I am not entirely up to speed on the Most Important Story of Our Time , this song from the musical Plain and Fa...

I am not, as a rule, a big fan of historical recordings of complete operas. Emphasis on "complete"; historical recordings of exce...

The creator of "A New Bunny," the infamous parody of Warner Brothers' Loonatics project, has a new Flash cartoon mocking WB...

Variety mentioned the other day, in an article on screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely ( The Life and Death of Peter Seller...