Floyd Norman has worked in animation as long as almost anyone I know. A few years ago, a book about Walt Disney was discussing how white his staff was back in the fifties, and it referred to a "lone Negro" who could be seen in the hallways. That was Floyd. He was working at Hanna-Barbera […]
The most famous delicatessen in New York is probably the Carnegie on 7th Avenue. The second most famous is probably the Stage, which is located a whopping 30 yards away from it, also on 7th. Folks like me who like delis have been known to visit both on the same New York trip — sometimes, […]
Once upon a time, imitations of MAD Magazine were about as prevalent in this great land of ours as Denny's restaurants…and you can make up your own joke about which is funnier or which tastes better or whatever you like. While you're working on that, I'll mention that we are now down to one, and […]
My friend Gordon Kent writes to ask… Your comment about Julie Nixon Eisenhower being Deep Throat raised a thought. I'm not nearly the aficionado of D.T. that you are — but how many women have been considered for the part (so to speak)? And what do you think the chances are that D.T. is a […]
The late Frank Kelly Freas is remembered in a way that would have amused him. (Thanks, Jerry Beck.) […]
David Kay was the author of a number of articles and speeches about the Iraq War that told everyone what had gone wrong, and in such eloquent and calmly reasoned manner that few seemed able to attack or answer him back. He has a new article out about what may be about to go wrong […]
I awoke this morn to this e-mail from Michael Burstein… Given the news that Deep Throat is terminally ill, your post saying that "I really hope it turns out to be someone like Julie Nixon Eisenhower or Ben Stein" could be interpreted as hoping one of them is about to die, which I'm pretty sure […]
We may be about to find out the identity of "Deep Throat," the informant who tipped off Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to certain facts during the Nixon/Watergate drama. According to this article, D.T. is ill to the point where Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee has already prepped the obit, which would presumably reveal the […]
Earlier today, I linked to an excerpt from a song and challenged you to guess what was familiar about the tune. Most of you probably got it, but for the benefit of those who didn't… That was an excerpt from a song called "It's Really Love," which appeared on Annette Funicello's 1959 LP record, Annette […]
Didn't watch. […]
If you're sick of all that movement in your cartoon shows, have we got a DVD for you! In fact, we have two sets of them. Scheduled for release in late March are two DVD collections that, between them, will give you every damn episode of Clutch Cargo, plus a whole batch of extras and […]
Thank you for all the suggestions of e-mail programs, most of which are Eudora Pro or Mozilla Thunderbird. I appreciate the quick response. […]
This is for a friend. He's looking for a simple PC E-Mail program that does two things. One, which most of them do, is to enable him to filter incoming mail and send different messages to different folders. The other, which I've never heard of, is a feature whereby a message is somehow marked or […]
I usually wouldn't be found reading, let alone linking to a sports blog. But my friend Bruce Reznick called my attention to this post on one. It's by a comedian named Scott Long, describing his experiences last year doing a corporate gig during Super Bowl week and I found it interesting. […]
You'll need to be able to listen to MP3 files to play along. Here's a brief excerpt from a song that Annette Funicello recorded back when people were letting Annette Funicello make records. Does this song sound familiar to you? Where else might you have heard it? Answer later today… […]