I dunno how many of you are following the "Able Danger" revelations but it's like a really bad episode of Divorce Court. On Divorce Court, the idea was, at least back when I occasionally watched it, to swing the spectators' emotions back and forth. Some witness would reveal that the husband did something worthy of […]
Our friends over at Animation World Magazine have posted a nice report on this year's Comic-Con International. You'll especially enjoy it if you like to see me giving sarcastic answers to perfectly reasonable questions. […]
I'm back from Canter's, posting via conventional means with no potato salad in sight. Right now on my TV, I see live coverage of a white Honda that led police on a high-speed chase beginning about an hour ago. The car is stopped on the eastbound 10 freeway with about a dozen police cars stopped […]
This is an amazing post. Why? Because it's being done from a table at Canter's Delicatessen on Fairfax Avenue here in Los Angeles. I'm lunching with Josh Jones, one of the high muck-a-mucks (that's a technical term) of Dreamhost, the company that hosts this website on its massive servers. Josh just had a turkey melt […]
How many mistakes can you find in this paragraph from an article written by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich at The Jerusalem Post? It's a review of a new Fantastic Four videogame. There is more of a story behind this action adventure game than inside it. Fantastic Four was created in 1961 by Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin […]
Never underestimate the power of this weblog. Here's proof of it. […]
Who really broke the story that Mark Felt was Deep Throat? Well, a number of us made educated guesses but only a few journalists managed to nail it down before Felt's family took him public. One was my pal Dawna Kaufmann, who's just set up a weblog. Her first entry tells all about how she […]
Saul Bass was a great designer of advertising and especially of movie titles. He elevated the latter area to a true art form, as you can see over at this webpage devoted to his work. You will especially enjoy the little interactive feature where you can click your way through many of his most famous […]
A surprising number of folks have written in to say I misspelled "Merlin" in my piece about Camelot. That's the way the wizard's name is more commonly spelled but according to the script by Alan Jay Lerner and the program book for the show, the character in Camelot is named Merlyn, with a "Y." So […]
Nice to hear that Dick Clark will return to anchor the New York segment of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on New Year's Eve. The absence of public appearances had worried a lot of folks, causing them to presume that the reports of his "minor stroke" were fibs to hide a much more serious […]
Most people probably think of Camelot as in the same category as My Fair Lady, Music Man, Oklahoma! and Guys and Dolls. That category is "Timeless Smash Hit Musicals." In truth, though Camelot now seems quite timeless, it was not a hit when it first opened in 1960. Unlike all the other shows in that […]
This article in the Los Angeles Times [registration might be required] says that the network late night shows (Leno, Letterman, Nightline) are losing audience share to cable, and that they look highly vulnerable to further onslaught. This is probably so. I think both Jay and Dave have gotten too repetitive and predictable, and that audiences […]
Boy, here's a site that will cost you a lot of time. It's called New York Changing and one section of it is devoted to "then and now" photos taken around Manhattan and in nearby boroughs. See how some building looked in the thirties and how it looks today, side by side. […]
Frank Rich says the War in Iraq is over…George W. Bush just doesn't know it yet. I don't think I agree with this article but it may be more premature than wrong. […]
Tom Wolper informs me that the "Rue Brittania" storyline won't be on the third volume of Rocky & Bullwinkle DVDs since it's already on the second. So ignore what I said about that. In fact, while you're at it, ignore what I say about everything. Vince Waldron informs me that the Aero Theater out in […]