Something Old, Nothing New

John Reed died two weeks ago at the age of 94. He was the D'Oyly Carte's lead patter performer -- the guy who handled the George Gr...

I don't have much to say about the new DVD of Make Way For Tomorrow that I haven't said many times before: I might have preferred m...

This isn't exactly a post, more of a random observation: if I have a favorite type of musical-theatre song, it's not the comedy song...

This is one of the first conventional "blegs" I've done in a while: can anyone identify the older man who is seated in this ph...

Of all the many variety shows and specials on network TV in the '70s, the strangest may have been Mary's Incredible Dream. This was...

Doug Gray's wonderful comics blog (a treasure trove of Barks, Stanley, Wiseman/Toole, Bolling, et al) whets the appetite for the upcomin...

I've said before that even though I don't care for the movie of Bye Bye Birdie overall (almost all the charming satire has been ble...

This wasn't co-ordinated in any way, but it's been brought to my attention that John Kricfalusi just wrote about his miserable exper...

I've never figured out why Busby Berkeley's Hollywood Hotel has never been released on DVD, either in the retail sets or in the War...

Since I posted a few excerpts from John McGlinn recordings recently, I thought some people might be interested to know that EMI has bundled ...

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...