http://www.newsfromme.com/ Mark Evanier's weblog about comic books, TV, animation, politics and other forms of fantasy en-us me@povonline.com 2010-02-09T10:05:34-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_09.html 18484@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-09T10:05:34-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_08.html Greg Ehrbar tips me to another BBC radio documentary you might like. It's called Open Sesame and it's an hour-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. Hurry if you wanna listen because it expires in five days.... 18483@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-08T21:28:01-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_08.html Fred Kaplan tells us that Sarah Palin doesn't know what the hell she's talking about. Oh, yeah. Like we needed Fred to tell us that.... 18482@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-08T12:59:34-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_08.html Just saw a promo for a new NBC series called Parenthood that I guess is debuting in March. I don't know if the show spends a lot of time there but the promo was shot at University High School... 18481@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-08T10:38:01-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_07.html By now, you've probably seen the Super Bowl commercial with David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno all together. I wonder how many people, in this era of CGI and special effects, assumed it was digital trickery and the three... 18480@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-07T19:38:10-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_07.html I was just looking at room rates for an upcoming Vegas trip. If you shun the weekends and don't want anything too Hefneresque, you can stay in that town for very low rates...but in some cases, not as low as... 18479@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-07T13:16:30-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_07.html Here's a lady telling us the right way to make mashed potatoes. I made mashed potatoes from scratch exactly once. I used to use an instant mix and the potatoes were decent enough. But one night, I had the craving... 18478@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-07T00:32:49-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_06.html So, uh, what did Fox edit out of the Jon Stewart interview before they aired it? Here's a rundown.... 18477@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-06T16:05:21-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_06.html When I express an opinion here, I can usually count on a deluge of e-mails that disagree, sometimes rudely, with whatever I said. There are times when you feel you could write "Robbing orphans at gunpoint is not a... 18476@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-06T10:51:29-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_06.html This is a clip from Keith Olbermann's show which might interest (and even please) those who don't like Keith Olbermann. I thought it was at least a semi-extraordinary moment in cable television. One recent night on his show, Jon Stewart... 18475@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-06T02:38:18-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_06.html Here's the menu for British soldiers serving in Afghanistan: Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Baked Beans and Spam.... 18474@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-06T01:22:30-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_05.html Dick Cavett weighs in on the NBC late night situation and what went wrong. His answer? Everything.... 18473@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-05T21:30:39-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_05.html Fred Kaplan discusses Ballistic Missile Defense, which some us have long sensed was a matter of our government throwing good billions after bad. The attitude of some seems to be that it's a brilliant concept that will someday save all... 18472@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-05T10:42:17-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_05.html The video on this isn't great but it's watchable. It's a clip from the 1991 telecast of The Horror Hall of Fame, a syndicated awards show designed to honor grisly movies and all things macabre. This segment, which salutes and... 18471@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-05T10:17:16-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_02_05.html Bob Elisberg tells us (and shows us) that Mel Gibson ain't changed a whole lot.... 18470@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-02-05T10:08:13-08:00