My pal Kim "Howard" Johnson — who knows more about Monty Python than any man, woman or child alive — reports on the new Monty Python musical, Spamalot. While we're talking Python, one of those silly "best ever" surveys was recently held to select the funniest scene ever in a motion picture. Coming in at […]
If you're a fan of the movie Vertigo, you will love this site. If you're not, you may still find it interesting. […]
This holiday evening, we're thinking good thoughts in the direction of comic book legend Will Eisner, who's in an intensive care ward at this very moment, recovering from a quadruple heart bypass operation on Wednesday. Word is that the creator of The Spirit (and some of the best graphic novels of recent years) came through […]
Yes, I understand that "use a pun, go to prison" is a parody of the law enforcement motto, "use a gun, go to prison." What I didn't get — and maybe I was trying to be more logical than necessary — was what going to prison had to do with the strike at the Comedy […]
David Letterman, who rarely ventures out of his own studio these days to do remotes, sprinted off to Iraq the other day to entertain troops there. Here's a nice report with lots of photos and such. […]
Comedians who work comedy clubs in New York are threatening to go on strike. Time to haul out the picket signs that popped up back in 1979 (?) when comics in Los Angeles picketed The Comedy Store, The Improv and other such establishments not for better pay but for any pay. The placards said things […]
Fred Hembeck invites comic art lovers to gaze upon The Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, Many, MANY Faces of Santa Claus! […]
Here are some facts about Social Security. Or at least, the authors claim they're facts. If anyone sees a substantive argument for the "other side," please let me know and I'll post a link to it. […]
Hey, here's a nice website devoted wholly to A Night at the Opera. Great film, great site. […]
Okay, here's a tech-type question that someone here may be able to answer for me. It concerns the minidisc format, about which I know very little other than that Sony has made it less than simple to transfer recordings off a minidisc and onto another format. A friend has several dozen songs on minidisc which […]
Movies are currently in the work for all but one of the original members of the Justice League of America. The one exception is J'onn J'onzz, the Manhunter From Mars. Why is he being discriminated against? I dunno…but when a reporter for E! Online called me this morning, I gave the best answers I could. […]
The power wound up going out here two more times last night after I posted the previous message. I think the crisis is over but I haven't yet been bold enough to go around and reset clocks and VCR timers. Several folks have written to inform me that their local Walmart (or other retail outlet) […]
I'm not posting any more than this one message this evening. Reason: My power keeps going on and off. I just had the sixth incident in the last five hours where the electricity goes out for about two minutes, then comes back on. After the fourth, I called the Department of Water and Power. A […]
…for shopping and gift-wrapping and people outside stores who ring bells at you and inedible fruit cakes and wondering what you're going to get your stupid Uncle Hiram and getting cards from people you don't remember and all sorts of things… But most of all, 'tis the season to click on this link and go […]
As the world's foremost authority on the 1959 Li'l Abner movie (and author of this article about the Broadway show it was based on, as well as this one about the movie, itself), I am often asked, "What's the deal with the video?" Many moons ago, Paramount Home Video brought it out on VHS and […]