Something Old, Nothing New

Not much to post today, so here are some more lyrics I love: Larry Hart's lyric for my favourite song of all time, Rodgers and Hart'...

Arglebargle! has a fascinating find: a 1945 issue of an in-house Warner Brothers newsletter, focusing on the WB cartoon studio. It consis...

As far as meaningless milestones go, 40th anniversaries don't have the cachet of 50th or 25th anniversaries, so I doubt anyone will be ...

John McCann , one of the writers of Animaniacs and Freakazoid! , has a blog post called "Warners and Jean" where he talks about ...

Probably not much posting this weekend, so to fill the space, here are some clipz of Stuff I Like (tm). This particular group can be catego...

In my post about Leo McCarey I talked about his improvisational method of filmmaking and how " he would let actors do things in the fi...

Via Tbogg : "24" and America’s Image in Fighting Terrorism: Fact, Fiction, or Does it Matter? Friday, June 23, 2006 Moderator: Rus...

Fox's website lists a September 5 release date for a DVD of 1968's Pretty Poison , a movie that anticipated -- and in some ways outc...

Earl Kress reports on a great special feature that's being produced for volume 2 of "Animaniacs" (which should be out in Nove...

Someone has kindly put up a clip of one of the great Vincente Minnelli scenes: the waltz sequence from Madame Bovary , with Jennifer Jones ...

Tomorrow, June 22, is the centenary of the birth of Billy Wilder. I've long thought that Wilder was better when he wasn't trying to...

In an earlier post about great WB animators , I wrote that the animator Virgil Ross was great at "expressing emotion and personality wi...

Via Animated News , Steve Hulett at the Animation Guild Blog reports that there's a Looney Tunes direct-to-video movie in the works: Ba...

I did a bunch of posts a couple months back about why the show "Bewitched" was so good in its first season (when Danny Arnold was...

I think my all-time favourite scene in a John Ford film -- sometimes, depending on my mood, my favourite scene in any film -- is the non-c...

Jim Rockford (James Garner, "The Rockford Files"), a popular TV private detective who drives a cool car and has a great Mike Post...

Jussi Björling and Renata Tebaldi in the '50s singing most of the final scene of Act 1 of La Bohème : Björling in "Che Gelida Manin...

">"That Girl": The Complete Second Season (October 10) kicks off the best part of that show's run, and it's not c...

Sadly, No! has a good post on the latest Ann Coulter flap and her defenders. The upshot of the post is that those who defend Coulter imme...

Thad has the Larry Doyle "Looney Tunes" cartoons up at his site. Beware. Some of these are worse than you could possibly imagine...