Chris Gumprich asks… For as long as I've been following you, you've hosted a tremendous number of panels. How do you prepare for these? Is it like a journalist preparing for an interview, or do you rely on your own deep knowledge of virtually everything in comics and animation to just wing it? Has there […]
Robert Kanigher was a writer-editor at DC Comics from 1945 until around 1985. He was amazingly prolific and several folks who worked around him told me, with only slight variations, the following: That one of the other editors could go to him and say, "Bob, I'm in a jam. I need an eight-page romance script" […]
A lot of folks online seem sure that the axing of The Late Show is a case of CBS giving in to some demand by Donald Trump…and given some of the things CBS has done lately, that's an understandable suspicion. It could be that but the "financial decision" seems utterly credible to me. Colbert's show […]
In case you haven't heard — I just did from Stu Shostak — CBS is getting out of the late night business and terminating Stephen Colbert's late night show as of next May. They're saying this is a purely financial decision and I have no reason to doubt that even though Colbert currently has the […]
Here's another Three Stooges short…Hold That Lion. And there are several interesting things I have to say about it, starting with the fact that it was released on July 17, 1947. That's 78 years ago today. Also, it was the 100th short comedy that the Stooges made for Columbia…and it's a film with four Stooges […]
Donald Trump keeps changing his story on how many missing children we have in this country and how many of them have been found. Glenn Kessler has the details on this. There are crazy people out here who think the floods in Texas were due to human beings deliberately modifying the weather to make that […]
If online forums are any indication, the Broadway community is quite surprised that the current revival of Gypsy starring Audra MacDonald is closing way sooner than expected. Its last performance will be August 17 and it will have played 28 previews and 269 performances. By contrast, the 2008 revival with Patti LuPone — which received […]
Here is the complete list of what I'm doing at Comic-Con. Yes, I'm actually scheduled for all these things along with several business appointments and interviews. I'm having the guys who built the robot Walt Disney make one of me to handle some of these panels but I fear it won't be ready in time. […]
A whole lotta folks online are discussing the new animatronic Walt Disney and saying it doesn't look enough like him. As I said, I think he looks a little like Mike Lindell. This is not a huge deal but I'm curious about one aspect of this. Obviously, the Disney folks could have called in any […]
In 1962, an outta-work TV producer-writer named Allan Sherman recorded an album of song parodies for Warner Brothers Records and quickly went from being broke to being very rich and famous. Very few records have had the immediate success of My Son, The Folk Singer and very few of them were comedy records. Sadly, Mr. […]
On almost every show I worked on for Sid and Marty Krofft, the main guy in charge of design — of sets or costumes or both — was a lovely and talented gent named Jeremy Railton. No matter how little money there was in the budget or how little time there was on the schedule, […]
Amanda Marcotte on why, after all the Trump crimes and moral transgressions his base has excused or denied, they're in high dudgeon about this Epstein thing. I also think this conspiracy theory is different from many of the others because this one has an actual dead body attached. Of all the ones these same people […]
We've been talking here about short comedies made by Columbia Pictures in the thirties through the fifties. Here's a Three Stooges short from 1944, Crash Goes the Hash. This one features two of the Most Valuable Supporting Players in the Columbia stock company…Vernon Dent (playing Fuller Bull) and Bud Jamison (as Lord Flint). In fact, […]
I've been staring at the animatronic version of Walt Disney, thinking that he looks familiar but not because he looks like Walt. And it finally hit me who he reminds me of. He looks like Mike Lindell. […]
We're now getting a First Look at a new Disneyland attraction — "Walt Disney – A Magical Life." I'm sure the museum parts of the exhibit are wonderful but all anyone's going to talk about is the audio-animatronic figure of Mr. Disney. It took the tech guys a long time to build this and it […]