TiVo News
According to this article, TiVo is getting crowded out of the marketplace it pioneered. I intend to be loyal to mine no matter how many episodes of The Man Show it insists on recording against my wishes. […]
Author: Mark Evanier
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Rob and Laura Return
Here's a CBS press release that feels like it should be quoted on this site… Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Carl Reiner and Rose Marie reunite for The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited, a new television special to be broadcast Tuesday, May 11 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Other original series […]
Looking for Little Shop
The first DVD release of Little Shop of Horrors (the musical version starring Rick Moranis) contained the alternate ending that was filmed but not used in the movie. Does anyone reading this have a copy they're willing to part with? […]
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The other day here, I wondered about the decree of a top Vatican official that "pro-choice" politicians have disqualified themselves from receiving communion. Obviously, the Catholic church can make whatever rules it wants, and no one is forced to remain in the church. But it struck me as odd that we never hear about someone […]
Today's (Short) Political Rant
There's an e-mail message making the rounds that points out that John Kerry's service record starts with the words, "I request duty in Vietnam," whereas George W. Bush's includes the line, "Do not volunteer for overseas duty." Now, I happen to think that very little that either man did in the seventies is relevant to […]
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Here's a short but nice article on Sidney Reznick, one of the best comedy writers of his era. And last time I saw him, he still seemed pretty darned funny. […]
MP3 Solution
A week or three ago here, I asked if anyone could recommend an MP3 player with a harddisk that had a good pause/resume feature. (Among other needs, I wanted to be able to listen to recordings of Al Franken's new show, starting and stopping without losing my place.) I instantly received e-mails singing the praises […]
More Great Spammer Names
I just got one from Abase J. Ironical and another from Gambled M. Earplugs. My pal Nat Gertler says he just got one from Cretin K. Crossfire. […]
Fat Cat on DVD
I'm getting e-mail asking me what's up with the announced (but not too clearly) release of Garfield and Friends on DVD. As you may recall, I recently posted a press release that said the first volume, collecting the first season of 13 episodes, would be out in July from Fox Home Video for $39.98. I […]
An Evening With Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen is the acknowledged master of stop-motion animation. His work on movies like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts inspired almost everyone else who ever tried to animate three-dimensional figures, whether it was on major 35mm features done in Hollywood or little 8mm attempts done in some teenager's garage. Mr. […]
Doonesbury Doings
As this news story explains, a number of newspapers had to agonize over whether or not to publish today's installment of Doonesbury. Some papers (like this one) elected not to print the entire week of strips "because of the graphic, violent battlefield depictions of Iraq." Makes you wonder what they're publishing on their front pages. […]
Vatican Rag
A news item this morning says, "A top Vatican cardinal said Friday that priests must deny communion to pro-abortion Catholic politicians, but he would not comment on whether it was right for John Kerry to receive communion." This raises a few questions in my addled, non-Catholic cranium… One is this: Kerry would describe himself as […]
Jerry's Dad
I have been fortunate to have met and in many cases, worked with most of my boyhood heroes. And when I was a tot, no one was more of a hero than the world's greatest ventriloquist, Paul Winchell. (Winch would argue that the world's greatest ventriloquist was Edgar Bergen and while I always found Bergen […]
Recommended Reading
Animation World Network offers us a nice little article by Gene Deitch on how he put together the Popeye and Krazy Kat cartoons done for television in the sixties. (One quibble: It's implied that the Popeye illustrations adorning the article are by Elzie Segar, who created the spinach-eater. They're actually by Bud Sagendorf, who assisted […]
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Gene Lyons goes after the myths about "red" and "blue" states. I always thought there was a high degree of nonsense in the notion that if a candidate gets 51% of the vote in that state on one day, then for years after, everyone in that state can be viewed as thinking like him. […]