If you are desperate for a hotel room for the Comic-Con in San Diego…or if you just are going somewhere and crave the best possible deal…here's a tip. Travelaxe is a free service that has sure helped me find cheap lodgings. It's a piece of software that you download to your computer. You tell it […]
Around 60% of the folks who attend shows in the Broadway area of New York are from out of state. This article in the New York Times reveals that and some other interesting facts about the theater-going audience. […]
Hotel reservations for this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego were snatched up at a staggering rate yesterday. Heidi MacDonald is covering the story here and later here on her fine comics news weblog. […]
Friday the Thirteenth is a day ahead of schedule. That's right: It's fallen on a Thursday this year. You can read all about this amazing phenomenon over at The Official Pogo Possum Website where, today only, they're celebrating a whole year of just being The Official Pogo Possum Website. Which is a fine thing to […]
Here's a comparison of the Dan Rather scandal with the one about those elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction. […]
As many of you race to secure rooms for the Comic-Con International in July, let us remember that there's another great California comic convention in February, and it's even operated by the same folks. This year's WonderCon occurs in San Francisco the weekend of 2/18 to 2/20 and as you can see at the convention […]
A P.S. on my earlier item about how Mary Poppins was the only Disney movie for which Daws Butler recorded a voice. This is probably true, though I should have mentioned he was up for one other job there. For about about a half century, comedy legend Stan Freberg told folks that when Mr. Disney […]
Online hotel reservations for this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego opened this morning. If you're even contemplating attendance of this fine convention, get over to the site and book a room immediately. Tomorrow may be too late. And if you don't do this, don't whine to me in June that you're paying $400 a […]
The search for Saddam Hussein's alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction has been quietly abandoned, the Washington Post reports. [Registration maybe necessary] Here are a couple of excerpts from the article, and I want to discuss the third paragraph I'm quoting… The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq has come to an end […]
Floyd Norman, who was working at Disney's when the film was made, comes through with a nice little article about Mary Poppins. Have I mentioned that the new DVD is quite wonderful, with all sorts of extras and behind-the-scenes footage? In fact, they could have omitted the movie and this new disc would be worth […]
I really like the 1968 movie, Oliver, but I always thought there was something a little creepy about the singing voice of Mark Lester in the title role. Some time ago in an interview, Mr. Lester admitted that he'd been dubbed, though he didn't say by whom. And maybe now we know why he didn't […]
You know who that is? Of course. That's veteran character actor Charles Lane, who made a very nice living in motion pictures and TV shows, usually playing a mean old man. One generation knew him as Homer Bedloe, the mean old man who was always trying to shut down the Hooterville Cannonball on Petticoat Junction, […]
Where's Gallagher? [Warning: Link to website that asks you for your age and zip code.] […]
Here's an article that answers the musical question: Whatever happened to Shecky Greene? […]
Here, straight from Mark Kausler's digital camera, are scenes from yesterday morning's Soupy Ceremony. Nice to see how happy Mr. Sales appears in the pics. And I'll also mention that Mark has made a wonderful animated short called It's the Cat, which has generated some "Oscar buzz." It's being shown next Saturday at 10 AM […]