Something Old, Nothing New

As a fan of musicals, I long ago learned to accept that many of the pre-1943 musicals are unlikely to receive a full-fledged cast recording:...

TCM showed The Pleasure Seekers tonight (they've been getting access to more and more Fox films, presumably -- I don't get the chan...

I tried to make a video like this myself a while back, but this one is much better and more complete -- as far as I can tell, it's all o...

I just wanted to highlight this post about the matte shots in The Love Bug (supervised by Alan Maley, though the king of mattes, Peter Elle...

That Donald Duck remix cartoon also reminded me of something I don't think I've mentioned before: despite its reputation as an extre...

I know many others have linked to it already, but this mashup video, "Right Wing Radio Duck" -- where Donald's unemployment a...

I was listening the other day to a 1948 musical called Look Ma, I'm Dancin'! , about ballet, with a score and vocal arrangements by ...

I'm not going to complain any more than I already have about the state of Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies on home video. I just wish, looki...

I don't have much time to discuss the death of Claude Chabrol, but here are two of the longer obituaries that have appeared so far: - Th...

One of the first obscure musicals I wrote about here was It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman , so I've been interes...

One post I've gotten some (polite) adverse feedback on is my "Why Sondheim can't write a love song" post, where I argued ...

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...