http://www.newsfromme.com/ Mark Evanier's weblog about comic books, TV, animation, politics and other forms of fantasy en-us me@povonline.com 2010-03-16T00:08:13-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_16.html And now, a trailer for an Academy Award-winning movie...... 18669@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-16T00:08:13-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_15.html Sorry I haven't written anything real today here. If it's any consolation to you blog readers, I haven't written anything that mattered for my career today, either. Now, around the time the phone stops ringing for the day, I'm settling... 18668@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-15T23:02:06-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_15.html The folks at Shout Factory are about to release a Tom Lehrer boxed set that contains two CDs and one DVD. If you're a Lehrer fan, you may have all or most of what's on the CD, though there... 18667@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-15T17:50:05-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_15.html Actor Peter Graves has died at the age of 83. I never met Mr. Graves nor have I ever heard any interesting anecdotes about him. Still, he was in some fine things, including the TV show, Mission: Impossible, and the... 18666@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-15T01:32:04-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_15.html I don't know how much of this you'll feel like following but here it is... Representative Paul Ryan has drawn up and presented what he calls "A Roadmap for America's Future." It's a financial restructuring that, he claims, will slash... 18665@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-15T01:31:03-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_15.html On Thursday of this week, the race will commence to book hotel rooms for the Comic-Con International in San Diego this July. If you'll be competing, read this. Also: As you know, one-day memberships for Friday and Saturday are sold... 18664@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-15T00:19:58-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_14.html Some of you probably know Edward Everett Horton only as (a) the narrator of Jay Ward's "Fractured Fairy Tales" or (b) an occasional guest star on 60's TV shows like Batman and F Troop. Actually, Mr. Horton (1886-1970) had... 18663@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-14T13:31:53-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_14.html It's tough writing these about friends, especially friends dying way too young. In this case, the friend is comic fan-turned-filmmaker Mike Valerio, lost to us by heart failure this weekend. He was 51. I've known Mike for...gee, I don't... 18662@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-14T11:10:55-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_14.html From last year's Chabad Telethon: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog makes a memorable pitch. This segment also features a brief appearance by three singing rabbis and a lot of appearances by the top of Robert Smigel's head...... 18661@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-14T04:28:31-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_13.html The good news on the Hollywood labor front is that the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have voted to set aside past differences and to resume bargaining as a single unit. This is... 18660@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-13T23:44:02-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_13.html If you've been following Keith Olbermann's on-air tales of his ailing father, you may feel a sense of loss to hear that Theodore C. Olbermann has left us. Here is Keith's announcement, and I imagine he'll have more to say... 18659@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-13T23:37:02-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_13.html I have this friend named Kim "Howard" Johnson and he knows everything about Monty Python. In fact, he knows everyone in Monty Python. Want proof? Take a look at this photo... Kim is one of the six people in that... 18658@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-13T21:28:05-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_13.html Comic book artist Violet Barclay (aka Valerie Barclay) has died at the age of 88. Ms. Barclay was born in New York on November 5, 1922. She attended the School of Industrial Arts in that city but was unable... 18657@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-13T12:42:21-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_13.html Ronald Brownstein makes the point that whatever the flaws of the current Health Care Reform effort, there will be a pretty high price paid for not doing anything. Without some action, medical costs in this country will skyrocket. And they're... 18656@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-13T02:34:02-08:00 http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_03_13.html 18655@http://www.newsfromme.com/ 2010-03-13T01:23:40-08:00