Something Old, Nothing New

The news that Steven Spielberg is interested in doing a George Gershwin biopic surprised me at first, though it really shouldn't have. ...

(Cross-post from TV Guidance ) A lightweight question as the weekend approaches: if people were still making prime-time shows into concurren...

This may be one of them irresistible force vs. immovable object scenarios: Shirley Temple , in her usual movie persona as the adorable spunk...

By request, the season 1 episode that introduced the running gag about Jennifer's doorbell playing "Fly Me To the Moon." (Even...

The death of Jean Simmons takes away my favorite of the England-to-Hollywood transplants of her era; she wasn't as famous as Deborah Ke...

Sorry for the long gap between posts. In my previous post, some commenters mentioned another track from that John McGlinn "Broadway Sho...

I was talking in an earlier post about great unknown songs by the likes of Jerome Kern. So here's one of the best-known unknown songs he...

UPDATE 2 : TV Shows On DVD now has the final list of cartoons on the two discs , which, compared to the list they had before, is pretty disa...

This has been on the 'Tube for over a year, but I only just saw it: three excerpts from an unsold 1966 pilot for a Li'l Abner serie...

Gilbert and Sullivan's The Grand Duke was their last collaboration, their least successful, and probably their worst; Gilbert's boo...

But that's OK, because it's not the greatest of songs anyway. I just happened upon this clip from one of the last Animaniacs episod...

It's not exactly a new statement, but every season reminds me that White Christmas is one of the weakest movies ever to gain the "...

This is not in any way Christmas-related, but I got a request for the original version of this episode. (Considering how prematurely WKRP w...

Someone (not me) has YouTub'd the original CinemaScope version of "No Hunting," Jack Hannah's six-minute broadside against...

There aren't many Golden Age Hollywood stars left, and the death of Jennifer Jones means that there are even fewer . This is not a new s...

Glenn Kenny has a post over at Some Came Running on "A Hound For Trouble," the last Charlie Dog cartoon, and Charlie's weird...

Via Mark Evanier's blog, I see that John Glenn Taylor has posted the famous National Lampoon parody of Mad magazine, "What, Me Fu...

Another bit of filler, but a good one; this is the complete single version of Bruno D'Andrea's "Na-No, Na-No," the Italian...

I don't really know why I haven't been able to post much lately. Part of it is time, but when I do have time, I seem to have trouble...

Sorry I haven't posted here recently. While I'm trying to put something together, here's a song I always enjoy hearing: Lena Hor...