Something Old, Nothing New

This one is less obscure than some of the other shows I've written about on this site. It had a run that normally qualifies a musical as...

I just got back from seeing Hugo , a charming and frustrating experience in equal measure, though I suspect that the charm will stay with me...

One of the few sitcoms I watched at the time and then never revisited again (that I recall) was Dear John , the 1988 adaptation of a BBC sit...

Arguably the best thing about IDW and Archie comics releasing "Best of Harry Lucey" and "Best of Samm Schwartz" hardcove...

One book I recently read for the first time (I don't know why I didn't before) is John Gregory Dunne's The Studio , his account ...

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...