Something Old, Nothing New

Ken Levine wonders whether improvisation is really all it's cracked up to be. Even the same TV critics who hail this new form admit in t...

Random question to encourage reader participation: what's your favorite instrumental/orchestral theme from a movie (that is, non-vocal m...

Somebody's uploaded a bunch of segments from the cult flop show that helped revive funny cartoons: The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse. ...

Betty Comden, of Comden and Green, died a few days ago. Here's the New York Times obituary. Time, I'm just taking my time, I'm ...

Here's something else I posted on a message board earlier but am only getting around to reproducing here. I searched Newspaperarchive.co...

Because I'm just in another one of those Bob Fosse kinda moods:

In honor of the upcoming Rocky Balboa , here's another Grudge Match I'd Like To See: APOLLO CREED (Carl Weathers) vs. CLUBBER LANG (...

Haloscan for some reason stopped working with my blog, so I've switched back to regular Blogger comments. Note, however, that you don...

Ah, that's more like it: Bosom Buddies , the complete first season, on DVD. I have said my say about why I love Bosom Buddies in an ear...

You've probably heard that Robert Altman died. In his honor, the memorial service will feature three eulogists, all delivering their eul...

Probably the best special feature on the fourth Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a new documentary on Friz Freleng, which includes lots of ...

While I try to come up with an animation-related post for the weekend, you can check out my post about How I Met Your Mother . I speculate -...

I've been trying to get through the films in Fox's Rodgers and Hammerstein Collection, but while Fox has done a commendable job in p...

Here's a weird YouTube find: somebody put up a clip from an episode of Dinah Shore's talk show ("Dinah!") where Shore and ...

Can you think of any long-running TV shows that, in your opinion, were only really good for one season? My pick is, and long has been, ...

I'm always making list of '60s actresses who should have become stars, but why limit myself to the '60s? A starlet of the '4...

Don't forget that this Tuesday brings the release of the fourth Looney Tunes Golden Collection, which is very much worth getting despite...

If Fox has really made a "multimillion dollar pact" to distribute DIC animated titles, that can mean only one thing: CARE BEARS. ...

I had a chance to look at the new James Bond DVDs -- the special features are mostly duplicated from the earlier releases (though there is s...

For some reason, one of my old posts that gets linked to the most after all these years is my post on The Stan Daniels Turn -- a joke that ...