June Foray is not only the first lady of cartoon voicing. She's also the author of Perverse, Adverse and Rottenverse — a collection of humorous essays that are no less funny than all those Stan Freberg records and Jay Ward cartoons that featured her. You can order it from BearManor Media by clicking here. Or […]
According to this article, a town hall meeting was planned for George W. Bush's trip to Germany but it has been cancelled. The reason? Bush's crew was insisting that the questions be approved in advance so that no one would ask anything our Chief Exec did not want to answer…but the German reps insisted that […]
Frank Rich discusses how the Oscars are being sold this year on the promise of a little indecency. […]
I wish I had more details on his life and death. All I know is that Bill Yoshida, the longtime comic book letterer, passed away last week. He began lettering comics in the late sixties and became the main letterer for Archie Comics around 1980. Occasionally credited as "Bill Yosh" or "Saburo Yoshida," his handiwork […]
An interesting article over at Jim Hill Media. Jim Hill himself explains that the Disney-MGM Studio theme park down in Florida may be in for a very expensive name change later this year. […]
Nikki Finke on what Chris Rock may or may not do on Oscar Night. […]
Well, maybe. This afternoon, my friend Tracy Abbott sent me this link to a website put up by the State Controller of California. It's a database of unclaimed property listings…meaning that they have money or other assets for people but don't know where to send it. They have nothing for me but there's some money […]
Mary Wallace informs me that The Today Show will be running a feature on the 100th birthday celebration for Charles Lane. The segment, prepped by correspondent Bob Dotson will air either tomorrow morning or Friday, and it will be repeated thereafter on MSNBC. Included will be footage from the party, much of which will also […]
Just noticed this nice report by Dave Sikula on the "Art of the Cover" panel I moderated at WonderCon. […]
I misunderstood the identity of my benefactor. The gift of a copy of the Gerry Jones book, Men of Tomorrow, was not from Jim Henley, which is the name of a fellow who writes me often here. It was from Jim Hanley, who operates Jim Hanley's Universe, which consists of two of the best comic […]
One of the many issues I've flogged over the years (in articles like this one) is that it's ridiculous to state that the Academy Awards have an audience of a billion viewers. The number isn't even close to that. It may not even be close to a quarter of that. In a piece in the […]
I don't know how many of you have been following the story of Fred Garvin, Jeff Gannon, Male Prostitute. A lot of the major news organizations — ones that skew Conservative and others that fear being accused of Liberalism — have given it little or no attention. If an "opposition party" were in charge of […]
I'm always interested when I see someone who has a strong position on one side of an issue and then changes to the other side. Those instances always give me pause to reconsider not just my view of that particular issue but my whole sense of feeling strongly about any controversial topic. I don't usually […]
This weekend, NBC's Up All Night is scheduled to rerun the very first episode of Saturday Night Live from October 11, 1975. Not only that but it's the full, 90-minute version as opposed to the truncated hour that is sometimes aired. I wrote a piece about this first show here. As you watch (if you […]
Probably for a limited time, Playboy has put up the text of its 1974 interview with the late Hunter S. Thompson. The first two-thirds, being mostly about which drugs he'd taken and when, is pretty boring but the remainder, which is about Nixon and politics, is well worth a glimpse. Beware the nekkid lady pictures […]