Busy with deadlines but can't stay away. For the Fall 1965 TV season, NBC commissioned the great Jack Davis to do a big mob scene drawing depicting all their prime time shows, plus they snuck in Johnny Carson and Huntley & Brinkley. The panorama was printed in segments as five separate pages in the TV Guide of that month...and I don't know if it ever appeared anywhere else.
Someone has scanned all five parts and attempted to piece the entire thing together and you can see or download it from this link. I'd love to know if it was ever reproduced in one piece and, of course, where one could get a decent copy of it. Failing that, I wonder if anyone else would like to invest in a copy of that TV Guide — they seem to go for $30-$75 on eBay — and cut it up to do a better scan.
Now, back to work...
ADDENDUM: Three people have written me to note that the person who pieced this thing together omitted the Sunday page with Bonanza and other shows. Let's see if we can get this thing put back the way it was supposed to be.
Time out from the soup kitchen to link you to a piece by Penn Jillette about the demise of the Hummer. I agree with all or most of it. The part where I might not agree is where he makes it sound like the brand was done in by government regulation. Seems to me it was done in by the cost of gas and the fact that most folks, like Penn, think someone who drives a Hummer is being kind of a jerk.
Behold: Our traditional graphic to denote that Mark is swamped with deadlines. Posting here may be sparse for the next few days and response time to e-mails may be much worse than usual. I shall return to you at full strength soon. Right now, I need to focus on the following problem: I'm recording a batch of cartoon scripts on Monday and Tuesday and half of 'em ain't been written yet. I go now to write them...
From last year's Chabad Telethon: Mike Burstyn, who keeps alive the tradition of the Yiddish Music Hall performer, favors us with "Hutzaza." You're not allowed to be a Yiddish Music Hall style performer unless you can sing this song — and you also have to be willing to be introduced by Larry King...
Charles Addams' ghoulish clan got its start in The New Yorker. Here's what that magazine's current Broadway reviewer, John Lahr, had to say about the new musical of The Addams Family.
April 16, 2010
