This article lists five ways in which Dick Clark revolutionized the TV business. It does not include "Paying Mark Evanier low money." Incidentally, a lot of pieces that have appeared about Dick in the last 24 hours have said or implied that his production company was responsible for The $10,000 Pyramid and its successors, the […]
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David Frum on why this presidential election is like a Penn & Teller routine. I agree with the point he's trying to make but I don't see that the analogy to Penn & Teller applies. For one thing, in this election no one is going to remain silent. […]
Another one. John Tebbel was a clever, nice man I met when he and his wife Martha Thomases were publishing Comedy, a magazine about a subject near and dear to us all. It should have lasted a lot longer than it did…and might have, had they not made the apparently-fatal mistake of having me contribute […]
Most of what I have to say about Dick Clark, I've said before here, like in one post which is not easily accessed at the moment so I'll quote from it… I worked a lot with Dick over a brief period, including producing a show that he hosted but which was not done through his […]
Here's a brief chat with the late Arthur Marx, the son of Groucho and a rather successful writer. I knew Arthur a little and liked him. When I was around him, I was semi-afraid to ask him about his father because I figured, probably correctly, that too many people did that. So we talked about […]
From Gary Cundall comes this question of the greatest importance… I did a search for this before I wrote this and I didn't find the answer. I'd like to know how did you meet Sergio Aragonés and how did you start working together? Back in the late sixties, we had a comic book club that […]
Fred Kaplan fears that things are going to heat up in the Middle East…like, say, Israel launching an attack on Iran. Ah, just what we need: Something more to worry about… […]
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CNN has Obama nine points ahead of Romney. Pew has him four ahead. Gallup has Romney in the lead by four. I can't find Rasmussen at the moment but I gave up following them in November of 2010 when they said Daniel Inouye would win re-election to the senate by 11 points and two days […]
Definition of an eternal optimist: Just got an e-mail from a Ron Paul supporter who's convinced his guy has the presidency in a bag. # […]
Okay…today we have two minutes from the Broadway musical, Memphis. I watched the PBS presentation of the show and liked it a lot, and this is the best song in it… […]
Have you ever tasted Kobe beef? Well, you may think you have but Larry Olmsted says you haven't; that what's sold and served in the U.S. as Kobe beef is not really Kobe beef. This is getting very confusing. First, we were told that our "100% beef" burgers included something called Pink Slime…and by the […]
Michael Kinsley conducts a class on class warfare. […]
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