Something Old, Nothing New

One more thing about this whole Archie marries Veronica in a flash-forward future story business: it's sort of been done already. This ...

Benny Goodman was born 100 years ago today. I'm pretty sure this is not the way he would want to be remembered. But man, that Busby Berk...

I have a web piece up about seminal Archie/Betty/Veronica moments (as seminal as you can get when you have a relationship that never change...

After another Animaniacs discussion on a message board, I thought I would come back here and create another chapter in the story of my ongo...

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I don't actually have much to say at the moment, but after looking at the German movie database Cine...

Josef Myrow has long been my candidate for the dullest successful pop composer of the "Great American Songbook" era; he composed ...

Being on a musicals kick lately, I went searching on YouTube and found a taste of what must have been one of the finest theatrical productio...

( Click here for updated list of original-music, uncut WKRP episodes online so far .) This episode from the fourth season demonstrates once...

One more thing: I couldn't find any clips from 110 In the Shade (Bluegobo would have had some, but it's no longer functioning since...

I was watching a film with Claudia Cardinale , and I was reminded that she has always struck me as the epitome of a sex symbol (or someone w...

I've been listening to the 1999 studio recording of the complete score of 110 in the Shade , probably the best recording in producer Joh...

There's a really interesting discussion about the work of Milt Kahl going on at Michael Barrier's site, and also spilling over into...

This was the episode made the week before "Fish Story," also written by Hugh Wilson and directed by Asaad Kelada. Like I said, it ...

With all due respect to Terry Teachout, I think he's sort of missing the point about comic strips: The problem I had with "Peanuts...

It's the '80s meets the '90s, and when they meet each other, they have to beat each other: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (David Du...

After watching The Beach Boys' theme song for Karen (the song was written by Jack Lawrence and prolific creator/producer Bob Mosher), I...

This is one of the most famous WKRP in Cincinnati episodes, and one whose backstory is pretty well known. It was the last episode of the in...

If Robert Zemeckis really does follow through on his hints about a Roger Rabbit sequel , I will be sad and gloomy and inclined to kick thin...

The original "Mahatma Gandhi" joke from "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (redubbed when the film was reissued after Gandhi'...

Did "Hare-um Scare-um" (the third cartoon with the crazy rabbit who is sort of, but not quite yet, Bugs Bunny) have an alternate, ...