Something Old, Nothing New

I know I shouldn't just post YouTube finds without having something to say about them, but I just found this and I can't think of an...

Which iconic creator of movie credits sequences do you like better: Saul Bass ( Psycho, The Man With the Golden Arm, Anatomy of a Murder ) ...

You know what I'd like to do but can't because nobody would be interested? I'd like to try and make a complete list of TV shows ...

There's not much to say about the new DVD set of The Maltese Falcon -- 1941 version great; 1931 version not as good but has Pre-Code st...

Check this out: a 1978 commercial for Geritol featuring Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey and his wife at that time, Cyndy. Garvey, a hands...

TV on DVD roundup over at t'other blog.

One of the most underrated and under-appreciated of the great pop lyricists was Johnny Burke , who wrote the lyrics for "Pennies From H...

In the comments on my Fosse post, "jim" makes a good point: The big problem I have with Fosse is that he never seems to develop an...

I had a longer post planned about the director/choreographer Bob Fosse, but I haven't had a chance to finish it yet. But I did want to n...

Can Helena Bonham Carter sing? According to Variety , she'll be doing her own singing when she plays Mrs. Lovett in Tim Burton's f...

Has anybody ever compiled a complete list of the prime-time TV shows that were made into Saturday morning cartoons? In the '80s, there w...

I wrote last year about why Bill Murray in Tootsie is one of the greatest supporting performances ever. I still feel that way. After I wro...

The new René Jacobs recording of Handel's Messiah is up to his usual high standard; it may not jump right up to Best Ever status like h...

I know there's an Andy Kaufman cult. And I also know why there's an Andy Kaufman cult; the guy managed to take the most bizarre, un...

Ken Levine has a memoir of the late Jerry Belson , who worked as an uncredited rewrite man on Cheers among many other shows. Here's the...

Paul Mavis's TV-on-DVD reviews are becoming a highlight of DVDTalk.com (especially since the DVD Savant's gotten kind of grumpy late...

Robert Mitchum Collection. January 23. Two movies from his RKO prime, Otto Preminger's Angel Face , which pairs him with Jean Simmons...

Sad news. Belson was one of the best comedy writers around, both for scripts and for uncredited punch-ups, which was his main job in the ...

Following up on my Saturday Night Live post below, I should mention that I recently watched a DVD of perhaps the greatest late-'70s SNL...

If this is actually real and not some kind of bootleg, it's pretty big TV-on-DVD news: "Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Sea...