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Here's film of Los Angeles and Hollywood in the thirties. The audio and the colorization are fake but the memories are real… […]
Author: Mark Evanier
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FACT CHECK: Same Old, Same Old
Trump claims the EU gave the United States a $600 billion present he could spend however he wanted. Daniel Dale over at CNN says no, he didn't. Steve Benen agrees with Dr. Dale. While meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday, Trump threw out some statistics and versions of history […]
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My pal Gary Sassaman has another installment up of his series, "Tales From My Spinner Rack!" In it, Gary reminisces about comic books he collected avidly when he was a kid and as I was a kid at roughly the same time collecting the same comics, his pieces strike a fine chord with me. This […]
Groucho
I meant to post this yesterday but life, as it often does, interfered with my plans. Yesterday was the anniversary of the passing of Groucho Marx — a day that meant Mixed Feelings for those of us who loved the man and what he represented on-screen. I had the honor of being in his presence […]
ASK me: Old Comic Book Pricing is
Tim B. sent me this one… You've mentioned many times on your blog that when you started collecting comic books, you bought a lot of your collection at second-hand book stores for a nickel each or six for a quarter. So you lived through the period when the prices for old comic books began to […]
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This was a bit on Stephen Colbert's show about a year ago that I missed at the time. But when I recently came across it, I found it very funny… […]
Mushroom Soup Monday!
It's been a few months since I had a day that promised to be so busy that I posted a can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup here. As you undoubtedly know, this is a time-honored Internet tradition, practiced on this site and nowhere else, that says "Don't expect a lot of posting here today, […]
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Richard Harris on Johnny Carson's show. A great anecdote… […]
ASK me: Ka-Zar #1
From Billy Suratt… Ka-Zar #1 (1970) reprinted Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's original story from X-Men #10, along with some other stories and a new cover by Marie Severin and either Herb Trimpe or John Verpoorten (depending on what source you believe). Somewhere along the line, it became somewhat infamous for allegedly having profanity snuck […]
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Hey, let's watch one of my favorite musical movie moments. Here from The Harvey Girls (1946) is "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe." It's a big, overproduced ode to a railroad line performed by Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Marjorie Main, Virginia O'Brien and anyone else who set foot on the MGM lot that […]
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Three Little Beers is another of the better Three Stooges shorts…in my opinion. And since this is my blog, I'm linking you to it here. Enjoy the film, you knuckleheads… […]
Sin City Sadness
We continue to watch what's happening in Las Vegas with great interest and horrified expressions. There's also a little sense of "It was obvious this was going to happen." Grosses are down everywhere, an awful lot of hotel rooms that should be filled this time of year are not, and rumors abound of existing hotels […]
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A few days ago, I linked you to a TV special that one of my heroes, Stan Freberg, produced and wrote and starred in in 1962. Its goal, you may recall, was to sell canned Chinese Food. Well, here's a special he did for Public Television in 1980 with some of the same actors. The […]
FACT CHECK: A Litany of Lying
CNN Keeper-of-the-Facts Daniel Dale corrects much of what Trump presents as the history of the Russia/Ukraine conflict. How does one help settle a war — in twenty-four hours or even more — when one has no real understanding of what has occurred so far? And Daniel Dale also notes that crime in Washington, D.C. is […]
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
A number of folks — thank you, all of you — have sent me this link to an online copy of the new issue of Emmy Magazine. This is the one with the article I mentioned here by Gabe Kaplan about Welcome Back, Kotter. It starts on page 42. And while you're paging through it, […]