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Journalist Molly Bingham discusses what other journalists do not understand (or understand and do not tell us) about Iraq. […]
Author: Mark Evanier
Posts by Mark Evanier
In a World Where Men Have Deep Voices…
If you're interested in a career in voiceover, do yourself a favor. Spend a half hour listening to my buddy Paul Harris interviewing two of the best promo announcers in the business, Don LaFontaine and Joe Cipriano. Paul had them on his radio show the other day and got a lot of good tips out […]
Recommended Reading for Comic Fans
The Nostalgia Zone is a new online magazine of articles about old comic books. I call your attention to an article there by my old buddy Mike Tiefenbacher, who was once responsible for The Comic Reader, back when it was maybe the most important fanzine being published. […]
Happy Garish Day
It's still May 10, at least where I am, so I can wish a Happy Birthday to one of the world's great voices, Gary Owens. Folks who lived in Los Angeles in the sixties probably knew him first as the witty radio personality on KFWB and then on KMPC. Folks outside L.A. probably knew him […]
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It's amazing…but we're still learning jaw-dropping things about Richard Nixon. […]
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Robert Dreyfuss on how Iraq is turning into a Vietnam-style quagmire. If someone can point me to a good article of the opposite stance, I'd like to link to it, too. […]
Another Public Appeal
Shelly Goldstein (chanteuse extraordinaire) is looking for MP3 files of old commercial jingles from the sixties that were recorded by pop stars of the era. Petula Clark did some. Dusty Springfield did some. Who else did some? More important, do you have MP3 files of them? If so, drop me a line and I'll pass […]
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Arianna Huffington has set up a new website called The Huffington Post which features a number of somewhat Liberal celebrity bloggers, including Larry David, Walter Cronkite, Harry Shearer, Ellen DeGeneres and David Mamet. Lots of fun stuff to read over there, though I have a feeling a lot of those folks won't keep up with […]
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Here's an article in the L.A. Times [you may have to register] that says the employment situation in the animation biz is improving. Case in point: My pal, Bob Foster. […]
Bullet P.S.
I shoulda mentioned that the new DC logo was designed by Josh Beatman of Brainchild Studios, and that the 70's version was the work of Milton Glaser, who's been responsible for some of the most memorable insignias in the field of graphic arts. The earlier version went through several incarnations before it became the version […]
The Magic Bullet
As explained in this New York Times article, DC Comics is changing its logotype, effective later this month. Can't say as how I like the new one, which is seen at right in the above illo…but then, it took me at least a decade to get used to the one in the middle, which they […]
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I generally like Hillary Clinton. I continue to be amazed at the sheer hatred (some of it, outright misogyny) that she inspires in people who think it is beyond any question that she is guilty of all those accusations that no one could ever prove. I also think that most of us will live to […]
Con Game
Tom Spurgeon offers some fine tips for attending the Comic-Con International in (gulp) sixty-seven days. […]
Up Late With a Script
Which is what I am. Before I pole vault into bed, I'd like to thank all the folks who've written with good thoughts about my mother. She's doing still better, thank you…plus, I seem to be straightening things out with that medical supply outfit. It's very annoying, when one is complaining about poor service, to […]
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Frank Rich does another one of those columns on why contemporary journalism sucks. […]