I'm up late working but here are three things I found on the web today that weren't about tragic events in London… Two weeks ago, I posted an obit of Paul Cassidy, who was a ghost artist/assistant for Joe Shuster on the early days of Superman. There seems to be some dispute as to whether […]
It's governor GEORGE Pataki and mayor MICHAEL Bloomberg. Michael Pataki is an actor. Come to think of it, so are the governor and the mayor. […]
I was switching back and forth between CNN, MSNBC and Fox News as I watched the early reports on the London bombing. For a long time on (I think) CNN, what was on my screen was news coverage by Britishers, originating in England. It was restrained, informative and focused on what had actually happened. At […]
It's not enough to say that this morning's bombings are horrible, tragic, sad, fill in the description of your choice. They're talking about 33 dead and more than 45 injured…but obviously, the damage goes far beyond that. On my TV, news folks and government officials, both here and in Great Britain, seem to be asking […]
Just how much is the Iraq war costing us? (And this is just in terms of money.) […]
Norm Prescott has died at the age of 78. A former disc jockey (he worked alongside Bob & Ray at WHDH in Boston, among other gigs), Prescott moved to Hollywood and into film production. In 1962, he partnered with Hal Sutherland and Lou Scheimer to form Filmation Studios, which produced hundreds of episodes of animated […]
Keith Olbermann is currently my favorite newsguy on TV. Matter of fact, his Countdown show on MSNBC is just about the only one I find remotely watchable. If you haven't given it a try, give it a try. And you might also want to keep an eye on his weblog where he currently has the […]
David Greenberg offers a history lesson, the moral of which is that Republicans and Democrats often squabble over Supreme Court appointments and always have. […]
I got behind on previewing the GSN late night black-and-white reruns. As a result, I didn't alert you to the What's My Line? with Buster Keaton as the Mystery Guest or the reairing of a To Tell the Truth with Jack Bothwell. As explained in this piece I wrote, Mr. Bothwell once made the rounds […]
Due to some ambiguous phrasing, I misunderstood something about the passing of Selby Kelly, as noted in this item. Although her death was announced over the previous weekend, it actually occurred two weeks ago. Sorry for the confusion. […]
I haven't linked to too many articles about potential Supreme Court Justices because…well, because predictions are all over the place and the predicters seem to be flying semi-blind on this one. The consensus, to the extent there is one, seems to be that the extreme right-wing of the Republican party believes it is owed a […]
Here's an early announcement of something that we'll be discussing at the Jack Kirby Tribute Panel at the Comic-Con International in San Diego… FANTASTIC FOUR, X-MEN AND HULK CREATOR'S FAMILY ANNOUNCES MUSEUM HOBOKEN, New Jersey, USA (6 July 2005) – Signifying a momentous step for comicbook lovers and popular culture scholars worldwide, Lisa Kirby, the […]
Sorry to hear of the passing of Ernest Lehman, a very nice man and a very accomplished screenwriter and producer. Ernie had many credits but it was hard to mention his name and not allude to North by Northwest, Sabrina, Sweet Smell of Success, and the film versions of West Side Story, The King and […]
Author and cartoonist Selby Daley Kelly died over the July 4th weekend [Correction: two weeks ago] in Northern California. She had been ill for some time and the cause of death is reported as complications from a stroke. Selby was 87, having been born August 13, 1917 in Boulder, Colorado. She later moved to Los […]
Hey, whatever happened to the National Lampoon? Come to think of it — and I don't have a link to an answer for this one — whatever happened to Ed Bluestone? He was the guy who came up with that "…we'll shoot this dog" cover and wrote some brilliant pieces for the Lampoon, and he […]
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