Something Old, Nothing New

Sorry for still another Tashlin-related post, but in doing some research on his movie career I found one other bit of trivia that I didn...

I know I've posted this scene before, but I wanted to try posting a movie scene after quoting the same scene from the novel it's bas...

I can highly recommend the new Tyrone Power DVD box set , containing a bunch of his costume adventure films (though not Zorro and The Black...

The great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich died yesterday. John Culshaw's autobiography, Putting the Record Straight , had some material a...

Denis McGrath has an entertaining rant against fanfic. Unlike most anti-fanfic posts, which are based on the dubious premise that fanfic vio...

I'm a little late in mentioning this, but check out Jenny Lerew's review of Michael Barrier's new Walt Disney biography. Since I...

One more WKRP article, but a good one: An interview with Richard Sanders (Les Nessman) . Sanders was a writer as well as an actor; his writ...

He was the head of the Motion Picture Association of America , and most people will remember him for creating the MPAA ratings and as a vill...

I see that Sabrina the Teenage Witch Season 2 is getting released. As I've said before, this show was never again as good as it was in...

I am trying to figure out how to do video effects on my computer. Why, I do not know. But I took a scene from Tootsie and amateurishly used...

The local multi-cultural channel, OMNI, is showing repeats of Unhappily Ever After. (They show it at 11:00 p.m., so I sometimes watch it wh...

I haven't said much more about the WKRP -on-DVD issue because it's kinda depressing. For the sake of the people involved with the sh...

One more excerpt from New Faces Of 1952 . This was sung by Robert Clary, who along with Ronny Graham probably did the most material in the s...

Lot o' bad news about TV-on-DVD releases lately. The latest is about the Ozzie and Harriet "Best Of" collection. According t...

When there were all those stories two years ago about Michael Brown, the then-current head of FEMA, for a moment I was confusing him with th...

Two of Hollywood's busiest exponents of the art of creeping audiences out go up against each other. Who wins, Dennis Hopper with his ma...

James Bond is once again assigned to sneak into a madman's impenetrable fortress, get past his henchmen, and blow the place up. This tim...

You may remember that in a couple of posts about Frank Tashlin , I mentioned that he seemed to be obsessed with showing off his female chara...

You know one thing I always appreciated about Laurel and Hardy? It's that they almost always played characters called "Stan" a...

I'm sorry I haven't been posting much lately (particularly if rants about music replacement in television shows don't count as r...