Something Old, Nothing New

The controversy over the revised version of Porgy and Bess was a bit unexpected to me, since "revisals" have been par for the cou...

Speaking of flop musicals that the team of Feuer and Martin produced after their golden '50s period... Well, first, I don't want to ...

Craig Yoe's Archie history book is a good contribution to this neglected field of fanmanship (maybe not a word, but I like it better th...

Fans of bad musicals have a particular soft spot for Whoop-Up , a 1958 show that seemed to demonstrate just how wrong a producing team could...

I recently read the book "Soon to be a major motion picture: The anatomy of an all-star, big-budget, multimillion-dollar disaster"...

Roger Ebert linked to Bill Mesce's post "The 'Gray Ones' Fade to Black" , about a subject I've touched on a lot: p...

TV Shows on DVD has the complete contents for the Looney Tunes Blu-Ray set . It seems like an uneasy combination of a best-of set and a fami...

This one was suggested by Sean Gaffney , the ultimate face-off of comic books' two greatest advertisements for obesity. Who would win a ...

a comment on my last post on this blog (a long time ago): Over a month without new postings? Are you even pretending to give a damn about th...

I finally got around to listening to one of the remastered/reissued titles in Sony/BMG's reissues of Charles Gerhardt's Classic Film...

I don't know what inspired me to ask this question now, but: has there ever been an in-depth, authoritative examination of all the rumor...

(Cross-posted from the TV Guidance blog) Having written enough about The Looney Tunes Show and Looney Tunes reboots in general, I don...

Sidney Lumet, who just died at the age of 86 , was probably the most famous of the first generation of TV directors to move into film -- him...

I couldn't say I'm surprised that Hugh Martin died ; he was 96, after all, and the one time I was lucky enough to finally talk with ...