Something Old, Nothing New

Writer Susan Baskin has a very charming article in the L.A. Times about returning to the first show she wrote for, "Remington Steele...

DVD Beaver has some screenshots from Seduced and Abandoned , from Criterion's new DVD; this was the follow-up by Pietro Germi to his su...

Not everyone at the time was wild about this ending. I recall some people being annoyed that the show was, effectively, signalling that we...

"St. Elsewhere" finally gets a season 1 DVD release. December 12 is the date. MTM Enterprises , the company that produced "S...

There's a new recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess that is billed as the first recording of the opera as it was performed on open...

The new DVD of Double Indemnity includes a fascinatingly bad extra: a 1973 made-forTV remake , directed by Jack Smight ( Harper ), written ...

Monday, August 21, was the 100-somethingth anniversary of the birth of cartoon director Friz Freleng. Hell On Frisco Bay did a Friz Freleng...

You can scratch another title off the "why isn't this on DVD yet" list: "The Addams Family" comes out on October 24...

In another instalment of my "cavalcade of YouTube clips of stuff I've already written about" series, here's Hattie McDanie...

Well, it's not that downbeat, but nonetheless Leo McCarey's Make Way For Tomorrow is one of the saddest movies ever released by a ...

Quickstop entertainment has a long, long interview with master voice actor Maurice LaMarche . Call it a quirk, but my favourite part of the ...

Universal will release a Preston Sturges box set on November 21. The set will have all of Sturges' Paramount films except for The Miracl...

One more great Lubitsch scene available on YouTube (posted by someone other than me, for once), is the opening scene of Design For Living , ...

Animaniacs, volume 2 and Pinky and the Brain, volume 2 are coming out on December 5, to provide more '90s nostalgia and give heartburn...

An all-out feud between two groups of derogatory stereotypes: HILLBILLIES (who drink moonshine, drive rusty old cars, listen to bluegrass mu...

One of the things I like about the films of Ernst Lubitsch is that his movies have an unusual amount of thematic weight to them. By this I ...

I have finally -- finally -- gotten around to restoring some of my YouTube clips that were wiped out in the Great YouTube Account Purge. I...

So here are my descriptions of the cartoons on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 4 : Disc 1 - Bugs Bunny - Roman Legion-Hare (Friz ...

TV Shows on DVD has the complete list of cartoons for the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 4." I'll have more about the...

Paul Henning's show "The Bob Cummings Show" (aka "Love That Bob") isn't on DVD yet -- except for one not-particu...