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 […]
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, […]
It's getting really hard to tell the real Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom tweets from the parody Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom tweets. […]
Seth Meyers is, as usual, right on target… […]
Because a lot of you will write to tell me about this if I don't mention it here first… The newest issue of Emmy Magazine — the official publication of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the people who give out the Emmy Awards — has a great article in it. I don't think […]
From Mark Potash… Thanks for the tip on It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. I finally saw it at the Music Box Theater in Chicago last weekend and it was well worth the wait to see it on the big screen. What a great movie to watch with a crowd! I do think it would […]
On July 27, while a lot of us were down in San Diego Comic-Conning, there was a celebration at the Shubert Theater in New York. What they were celebrating was the fiftieth anniversary of A Chorus Line with an amazing number of cast members from the original production. The one-night-only event featured speeches and scenes […]
Here's the question from from J. Williamson. He (or, I guess, she) is referencing this post here… I read your piece about uncredited artists doing assistant work on comic books and I know you draw a little so I thought I'd ask did you ever do uncredited art on any comic book? Yeah. I drew […]
This is the last one of these posts featuring photos from Comic-Con International 2025 — which I'll say one more time might have been my favorite of all the Comic-Cons I've attended in San Diego the last few decades. There was something magical about the first ones because (a) everything was new to me, (b) […]
I wrote here about the new super-charged, artificially-intelligenced version of The Wizard of Oz debuting soon in Las Vegas. Jim Van Hise wrote to tell me something I hadn't heard; that among the "improvements" they've made to the movie is to cut thirty minutes out of it. Great idea! Because when I shell out hundreds […]
I received an awful lot of answers to the question I posed about the membership of the Legion of Super-Heroes at various times and what that might tell us about the origin date of that DC Comics form letter I shared with you. So I now have a mailbox full of messages telling me, for […]
Knowing of my love of a cappella singing groups — but perhaps not knowing how much I like this song — my pal Douglass Abramson sent me the link to this entry in the 2025 Quartet Quarterfinals of a competition run by the Barbershop Harmony Society. I think this group is named Primer and otherwise, […]
I'm reading 'n' hearing a lot about the A.I.-assisted retooling of The Wizard of Oz into a cinematic thrill ride that will play at The Sphere in Las Vegas…and maybe nowhere else. I have no idea how I feel about it and probably won't until I go see the film which I have no intention […]
I came across this in my files a few years ago and thought, "I oughta scan this and post the scans on my blog so everyone can see them." I've finally gotten around to doing this. At some point in the sixties — we'll discuss what point in a moment — if you sent a […]
Here's the latest episode of The Barbara Gaines Show with her Special Usual Guest Star David Letterman… […]