The Tony Awards are tomorrow night. I was going to post the winners after the ceremony but I expect to be busy then so here they are now… Best Musical: Spamalot Best Play: Doubt Best Revival of a Musical: La Cage aux Folles Best Revival of a Play: Twelve Angry Men Best Special Theatrical Event: […]
Another great character actor has died. You might think of Leon Askin as being to Nazi officers what Fritz Feld was to maître d's, what Parley Baer was to small town mayors, what Jack Norton was to drunks, what Mary Wickes was to sharp-tongued housekeepers, what Eddie Deezen is to nerds, etc. Most folks probably […]
Donald Wildmon's American Family Association has for some time tried to run some sort of boycott against the Disney company for being "gay-friendly." Now, they're calling it off, citing some kind of vague, limited success. One suspects it's more a matter of them realizing their impact was microscopic and that it was time to claim […]
So without a lot of time to write, I'm going to create the illusion of activity on this weblog by posting photos. This one was taken last weekend at the National Cartoonist Society get-together in Scottsdale, Arizona. The gent with the mustache is my collaborator of mucho años, Sergio Aragonés, who has been a mainstay […]
First off, I'm way behind on responding to e-mail, and it'll probably get worse before it gets better. My ongoing apologies to those of you whose messages languish in my "to be answered" folder. Secondly, I'm almost burned-out on reading about Mark "Deep Throat" Felt but this article by John W. Dean is of great […]
It's been a while since I mentioned The Daily Show With Jon Stewart since I figure if you're smart enough to find your way to this website, you're smart enough to watch that show regularly. But their coverage of the Deep Throat unmasking was especially funny and, thanks to a weblog called Crooks and Liars […]
Do not click on this link. Do you hear me? Do not click on this link. […]
This is for those of you watching the What's My Line? reruns on GSN. Tonight's episode has Bert Lahr as the Mystery Guest and tomorrow night's has Yul Brynner. Early Saturday AM, GSN will skip an episode with Robert Montgomery in order to present a tribute to the late Eddie Albert…episodes of game shows on […]
I have to admit that I'm really enjoying all the stories about Mark Felt and his actions as Deep Throat. I read every Watergate book, watched every documentary, talked at length with friends of similar interest. I even once had a bizarre lunch with the infamous Charles Colson, which I'll tell you about one of […]
In 1966, Hanna-Barbera produced a prime-time animated special that for some reason has not been rerun much since then, nor has it ever been released on home video. It should be, because I recall Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? as a pretty good little […]
I dunno about the other cable channels but MSNBC turned into the Bash Deep Throat Channel yesterday afternoon. They had three or four shows in a row on the unmasking of Mark Felt as the fabled secret source and Pat Buchanan was on every one of them to call Felt a "snake" or worse. At […]
I was outta town so I didn't get to post a link to Frank Rich's weekend column. It's about how no one seems to know what to do with Ground Zero in New York except to exploit it for political advantage. […]
As a longtime wallower in Watergate, I've waited a long time to read something like this… The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at the FBI, was "Deep Throat," the secretive source who provided information that helped unravel the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s and contributed to the […]
Here's a link to the Vanity Fair article revealing Mark Felt as Deep Throat. It's an Adobe PDF file and I suspect it will not be online for long. […]
So far, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have no comment, but it's being reported that Mark Felt has confessed to being their legendary source, Deep Throat. As I mentioned here, here, here and many other places, I always felt he was the guy. Assuming this revelation doesn't get shot down, it will be interesting to […]