Something Old, Nothing New

I've decided to order some older television scripts, the better to analyze them to death ( Script City still beats Ebay when it comes t...

TV Shows on DVD now reports that the planned DVD release of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." has been put on hold because of unexpected ...

This Daily Telegraph article interviews composer/lyricist Jerry Herman about Mack and Mabel , one of the most-revived flop musicals ever. ...

Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg wrote several new songs for the film version of Cabin in the Sky (supplementing the three Vernon Duke/John LaT...

Double Idemnity two-disc special edition DVD , tentatively scheduled for August 29. I was hoping somebody would get around to this before ...

While I'm in non-blogging mode for the next week or so, here are some previous posts of mine that I like and want to re-direct your atte...

It looks like DVD Beaver may be about to shut down. Too bad. This was a site that the big studios should really have helped out, with fre...

One of the many great posts at Thad Komorowski's Classic Animation Blog is the one with clips from Rod Scribner's 1950s animation f...

Ah, "The Tick." Not the pointless live-action version with Patrick Warburton, but the animated version with Townsend Coleman as ...

Really stupid, random thought: if modern-day celebrities appeared on The Flintstones , what would their names be changed to? Remember Ann-M...

At the risk of boring you to death -- a risk I'm always willing to take -- I wanted to return to something I highlighted in a couple of ...

Robert Browning has been my favourite poet since college, largely because he does all the things that good serious poets aren't suppose...

One of the best half-hour episodes Warner Brothers Television Animation produced in its '90s heyday was the Tiny Toon Adventures episod...

Still another great depressing lyric, this one from Paint Your Wagon by Lerner and Loewe: "Another Autumn," sung by Tony Bavaar a...

Valley of the Dolls , two-disc special edition. Our terrestrial existence is nearly complete. In case you wonder why this is the Most Imp...

In the category of "stuff I wrote but can't remember exactly why," I wrote this song lyric last year -- I think it was an exer...

Season 4 of "NewsRadio" is on its way. This was Phil Hartman's last season; it was also the season where the writers of the s...

Jonathan Rosenbaum has another article up at DVDbeaver.com, this time about "Ten Overlooked Noirs " . Actually I don't know th...

From the new René Jacobs recording of Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito , probably the prettiest tune Mozart ever wrote: the duet "Ah, p...

To follow up on my posts about '60s sitcoms, Bernard Slade's autobiography, "Shared Laughter," describes the difference b...