Something Old, Nothing New

Thoughts on Popular Culture and Unpopular Culture
by Jaime J. Weinman (email me)

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Grudge Matches I'd Like To See: Abbott and Hardy vs. Laurel and Costello

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Two classic comedy teams re-group into two fighting teams. On this side, we have the two annoyed angry guys: Bud Abbott and Oliver Hardy . ...

Library Product

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The New York Times 's Dave Kehr writes about how various entertainment companies have handled (or mishandled) their classic titles on DV...
Friday, December 30, 2005

Lost Starlet of the '60s: Stella Stevens

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In my posts a few months back on "Lost Starlets of the '60s" -- beautiful, talented actresses who should have been stars, but ...
Thursday, December 29, 2005

Scoring Sessions

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After watching some "Batman: The Animated Series" DVDs, I hunted around the internet and found this article on the music for ...

Non-Depressing Lyrics: "Not a Care in the World"

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When I'm not in a good mood -- which, considering the current state of the world and the fact that I hold myself personally responsible...
Wednesday, December 28, 2005

There's Baloney In Our Slacks

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Via Toonzone Forums , some news on the extras planned for the Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain DVDs . The special features will be hosted...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Why Do Wonder Woman Villains Suck, or Amazon.Bore

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So everyone's wondering who will be cast as Wonder Woman in Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman movie . (If Hollywood studios had any market...
Monday, December 26, 2005

And Rex Hamilton As Abraham Lincoln

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Paramount tells TV Shows On DVD that they are finally, finally, finally planning a DVD release of "Police Squad!" . Hopefully we...
Sunday, December 25, 2005

"The Synthetic Musical Comedy

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I haven't seen the movie musical version of The Producers yet, but its release is as good an excuse as any for me to say a little somet...
Friday, December 23, 2005

Great Lyrics: "Someone in April"

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Alan Jay Lerner was never a very consistent writer, and after the retirement of his songwriting partner, Frederick Loewe, he spent twenty-pl...
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Thursday, December 22, 2005

Frees!

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This is an old article, but what the heck: DVD Savant on Paul Frees in Some Like it Hot. The fact that Frees dubbed Tony Curtis's ...

Defending the Implausible

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I never thought it could be done, but Roy Edroso has a halfway-decent defense of "Two and a Half Men" : The Sheen and Cryer chara...

Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor! Damn!

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TV Shows on DVD has the episode list and extras for season 3 of "NewsRadio." This was probably the best season of "NewsRadio...
Monday, December 19, 2005

Can I Call You Al, Or Maybe Just Din?

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Animated News has An interview with animator Eric Goldberg . The interview mostly focuses on his work for Disney, as the director of Pocaho...

Anatomy of a Re-Tool: Newhart

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I was talking with someone about shows that get re-tooled -- the characters get new jobs, many supporting characters are replaced, and so on...
Sunday, December 18, 2005

The Woodchuck...

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Hinterland Who's Who, the homepage. Featuring the original theme music, plus clips and other info. For those who aren't familiar w...

TV Blogs On DVD

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Gord Lacey and David Lambert of TV Shows On DVD , which started four years ago and has since become one of the most influential home enterta...

The Dumbest Thing Written This Week

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This may be too close to a political post, but I appreciate really dumb writing when I see it, and must call it to your attention. The Angl...
Saturday, December 17, 2005

This Budd's For Us

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Just a reminder that this coming Tuesday, December 20, brings the first DVD release of a Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott Western, namely thei...

A Song's Progress: "We're Gonna Be All Right"

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Do I Hear a Waltz? , a 1965 musical adapted by Arthur Laurents from his play The Time of the Cuckoo and with a score by Richard Rodgers and...
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