Something Old, Nothing New

I did not make up that joke about Vincente Minnelli's The Cobweb (1955) , which I watched on TCM last night and whose entire plot revol...

After the debacle that was the season 1 set , it doesn't seem likely that Fox will release the other seasons of WKRP in Cincinnati any ...

Todd VanDerWerff at South Dakota Dark has finished up his epic series on the 100 best American TV series of all time (plus "sidebar...

'Tis the season for re-posts, so here's a 2004 "obscure musicals" post about the musical version of What Makes Sammy Run? ...

I couldn't make it through more than a few minutes of the Canadian broadcast of Scott Baio is 45 and Single or Scott Baio is Ripping Of...

I am not the first person to do this, but I took the obvious step of combining the Buck Rogers TV series with "Duck Dodgers" and ...

I keep thinking I should write an "Obscure Musicals" post on the 1957 show Jamaica , which was a hit, and produced one of my favor...

Sony or Amazon or somebody is calling for fan voting on the cover art of Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen . I voted, ...

I'm surprised that the song "Everybody Wants to Be Sondheim" by Alan Chapman hasn't become better-known; it's been re...

Here's a 1979 commercial for the original Broadway version of Sweeney Todd. I always find it interesting that the show was not really a...

Charlie (on the speaker): Angels, the picture on the screen in front of you is the home of Mrs. Angela Palledankhurst, wealthy widow of J....

Update: Thanks to a commenter for pointing out that the clips at that YouTube account are in fact lifted from the site Bluegobo.com, the on...

I remembered Blake Edwards' 1974 spy drama The Tamarind Seed as an underrated movie -- maybe the last time Edwards made a movie that ac...

In a previous post I mentioned the poor lyrics written for the M*A*S*H theme song by Robert Altman's son, Mike Altman. It's not Mik...

Still trying to get some more posts up here... but meanwhile, here's a number from Star Spangled Rhythm , Paramount's entry in the ...

Update: In my original post I forgot to mention what a movie like Jessica (which, I reiterate, is not a good movie) tells us about the Ame...

One thing that impressed me about Enchanted was the near-effortless way the filmmakers managed to carry off the live-action musical numbers...

- A rare piece of good news about music in TV DVDs: after the butchered second season of Happy Days , Paramount has inexplicably but happily...

Just one more "Italian theme song" post: I found a better-quality version of the Italian Mork and Mindy (also, this one is from t...

Captain James T. Kirk and Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli are both transported to a planet populated entirely by beautiful women. (Si...