I haven't read one since I was about eight but I recall enjoying the Little Dot comic books. The character was reportedly created by writer-artist Vic Herman and debuted, looking somewhat different than she later did, as a back-up feature in Harvey's Sad Sack comic book. Later, she was redesigned by Warren Kremer, who was […]
If you think back, The Mary Tyler Moore Show ended with a cute reversal of logic: Everyone was fired from WJM News except the guy who was truly, undeniably incompetent…Ted Baxter. You get the feeling the same pattern's at work with the Bush Cabinet? Get rid of everybody except Rumsfeld… […]
And here's an article by John W. Dean about the red state/blue state way of looking at America. Personally, I think the whole county is just purple mountain's majesty. […]
Google News gathers up and displays news headlines from all over the Internet. Sometimes, this doesn't work. […]
Andrew Sullivan offers an interesting look at the notion that the so-called "red states" have higher values than the blue ones. […]
Every year at a site called ICQ Friendship, they post an animated online "greeting card" starring Santa Claus and his reindeer. I don't know who animates them but they're very clever and charming. Two years ago, they presented this one. Last year, they added this one. And I just noticed they've put this year's card […]
Here's Frank Rich's latest, which is about the attempts of network news to appeal to the "Nascar" sensibility. […]
One of the great things about the Internet is that it enables you to "meet" a lot of folks you previously knew only as names. I long ago discovered a series of terrific books by a gent named David Feldman. They all have different titles but they're part of a series he calls "Imponderables," meaning […]
Dahlia Lithwick discusses the penalty phase of the Scott Peterson case. The case still doesn't interest me but the way in which we decide about the Death Penalty does, and this piece raises some important points. […]
The other day, animation maven Jerry Beck told me that the old, vacated F.A.O. Schwarz space in The Grove is currently housing — though only until the end of the year — the first Turner Classic Movies store. The Grove is the new upscale shopping mall appended to the wonderful Farmers Market tourist attraction here […]
You're a beloved favorite of children the world over. Once upon a time, you had your own show on NBC and kids loved you. And while you've appeared many places since — including on a show that I wrote — and your show still turns up in syndication and on DVD, the jobs occur with […]
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Something I just found out: Three of the Buster Keaton MGM films that Turner Classic Movies is running in their Keatonfest next week (the best three, happily) are about to be released in a DVD set which also includes the documentary I mentioned and a bunch of other extras. So those of you who don't […]
Tuesday, December 7, Turner Classic Movies is saluting Buster Keaton by airing seven of his films and a new documentary entitled So Funny It Hurt. Both the documentary and the films they've chosen to air direct our attention to Buster's years at MGM when he made the transition from silent pictures to sound, from having […]