Something Old, Nothing New

I really don't know what else to say. I never met anyone who didn't like Paul Newman. Looking at his filmography , I get the odd imp...

When it comes to commercials, most people know Ricardo Montalban from this: But because that was a little before my time, I actually knew hi...

By request, an episode from season 3 where each of the regulars has a daydream while Mr. Carlson delivers a dull speech. For some reason, wh...

The two most beloved girl-girl buddy teams of the '70s pitted in a brutal battle for ratings supremacy. Will the Minneapolis (and someti...

As Thad says, there's been a lot of Irv Spector talk going on lately , and that reminded me that I've been meaning to talk about ano...

In the "things I complain about that normal people don't and shouldn't care about" category: why is it that most English s...

This week was the 30th anniversary of the debut of WKRP in Cincinnati (it premiered on Monday, September 18, 1978). So the appropriate thin...

Sorry for the lack of postings recently. I was recently asked whether I remembered a '50s remake of The Women , before the current flop,...

In comments on an earlier post, Cristiane asked if I'd seen the 1949 film version of Gigi. I hadn't, until I got the new DVD, where...

Sixth episode of season 3: when Herb gets Jury Duty, Andy, the competent radio professional, takes over sales and discovers why a station li...

I picked up Criterion's new DVD of one of my favorite movies, almost literally since I first got interested in old movies, Max Ophuls...

Next week we're getting "special edition" DVDs of the only Arthur Freed musicals to win Best Picture Oscars: An American in Pa...

Don't have time for a long post on this subject, but I was watching Grand Illusion again yesterday, and I noticed that while Jean Renoi...

To follow up on My post about The Lieutenant Wore Skirts , here's an excerpt from that very strange but memorable scene I mentioned, a p...

This is the season 3 Christmas episode, accurately described within the episode itself as "Another one of those Charles Dickens' Ch...

I'm not a reflexive basher of Stuff White People Like , but I don't know about this latest entry, "Appearing to Enjoy Classical...

As electric guitar music plays on the soundtrack, two men stand at opposite ends of a dusty field, each watching the other to figure out whe...

You've probably seen this since TV Shows on DVD linked to it, but the New York Times reports that the last three seasons of Mary Tyler ...

Following up my highlight reel from The Swarm , I've compiled a highlight reel from the worst movie of the '60s, The Oscar, focusin...

By request, here's the other season 1 episode that is usually only seen in a cut syndicated version: the fourth episode produced and the...