Something Old, Nothing New

I didn't have much to add on the "Looney Tunes All-Stars" DVDs and the decision to present all the post-1954 cartoons in wides...

She had an exceptional, multi-layered career. As the obituary notes, the early phase of her career culminated in her appearance in The Girl...

I've been asked by a couple of people what I think of the new Life With Archie magazine, which continues the Archie "marriage...

Another classic film actress is gone: Patricia Neal, who was 84. Of all the many difficult parts she took on and did brilliantly, one of the...

Thinking about Suso Cecchi D'Amico, the prolific Italian screenwriter who just died at the age of 96 , it occurs to me: while it's o...

Who'd have thunk, there's an actual comics announcement from the San Diego Comic-Con. (Well, they have to happen every once in a whi...

When I saw this episode as a kid, I was mostly fixated on Potsie's poor singing and the weird new Arnold's set (just before Ron Howa...

This is (for now) one of the few flop musical clips from the Ed Sullivan Show that's still online, after Bluegobo.com had to divest itse...

I've been listening to some old musicals lately, and one thing they've gotten me thinking about is the difficulty of writing a reall...

Sorry for not posting recently; I think I'm going to return to posting a clip or story here until I can get some longer posts in the pip...

I've been wanting to write something about Dance a Little Closer , possibly the biggest musical flop of the '80s (even more than Car...

I'll have more to say about IDW's Best of Dan DeCarlo: Volume 1 collection later, but for now I'll note that -- as first pointe...

You may have noticed that Armond White , whose contrarianism and combination of unpredictability and utter predictability (he's loved ev...

I discovered some interesting comics and contributions during last year's bout of Archie Comics research, but one of my favorite discove...

I've said a few times that the late '90s (really, mid-to-late '90s, starting in 1995 or so) have their own very distinctive cult...

Having written about Frank's Place the other day, I'm sad to see that the man who helped create the distinctive look of the show di...

I'm sure this has been featured elsewhere, but it's the first time I saw it: the transformation scene from Pinocchio with only the ...