One thought about a lot of what I'm reading today in response to Richard Clarke's charges on 60 Minutes… A lot of the response — maybe even the majority — is in the "Blame Clinton" category: The Clinton Administration had eight years. We had only 234 days. They didn't do this. They didn't do that. […]
My pal Ken Plume, who contributes wonderful articles and interviews to IGN FilmForce, informs me that he's seen the Sunshine Boys DVD and that the make-up test of Jack Benny is silent and that he sports an extremely dark dye job. I'm guessing that's make-up for the scene in the film where Lewis and Clark […]
Boy, I wish this would play on my TV. The folks who control the rights in this country seem to have no interest in putting out such a thing for us…but maybe some day… […]
In case you missed 'em over the weekend, C-Span has posted the video of several broadcasts about political humor. It's a little over three and a half hours and it includes on its various panels, Garry Trudeau, Stephen Colbert, Phil Hendrie, Drew Carey, Greg Proops and others. Here's the link and it should be there […]
It doesn't come out until next week but I just went and ordered the new DVD of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys. It's a fun movie but I think I'm ordering it as much for its special features as the movie itself. There's a commentary by co-star Richard Benjamin. There are make-up tests of Walter […]
The frustrating thing about Richard Clarke's revelations (if that's the correct word) on 60 Minutes tonight is that they will not, for the most part, be debated by folks with an eagerness to get at the truth. The Democrats will declare that Clarke's the man, he knows, that's how it was, Bush ignored warnings about […]
Last week, Eric Alterman (an author I like) appeared with Dennis Miller (a comedian I used to like). Unlike a lot of folks, I actually started to lose my taste for Mr. Miller years before 9/11 and his political conversion. I think the disillusionment began when I went to see him at the MGM Grand […]
Just watched the East Coast telecast of tonight's 60 Minutes interview with Richard Clarke. Oh, my God. […]
Here's Frank Rich on the new (and, I think, inane) movement towards censorship of radio and television. Here's one key section… The strange history of Bono and the Golden Globes is a case in point. It was 14 months ago that the front man for U2 inadvertently used a contraband seven-letter word as a modifier […]
A few months ago, this site presented a stirring history of the little-known comic book version of The Dick Van Dyke Show published in the sixties by Gold Key Comics. Some of you have written in to ask me about some of the other comics Gold Key did based on popular TV shows so in […]
I've received a number of suggestions and explanations regarding the problem I've been having with my Panasonic DVD Recorder. One gent — and I'll thank him by name once I'm sure he's right — told me to switch from 4X disks to 1X. The Panasonic manual doesn't seem to say what kind to use (other […]
We love TiVo about as much as this author in the New York Times. And we'd like to believe that this author is incorrect that TiVo may not be long for this world. […]
As mentioned here, my Panasonic DMR-E80H DVD Recorder is not working properly. I know this because after spending too much of yesterday watching it crash and destroy blank DVDs, today I spent an hour on the phone — most of it on "hold" — before a nice lady at the Panasonic Help Line told me, […]
Today, the unique creature known as Scott Shaw! presents the one-thousandth installment of his Oddball Comics column over at his page. It's not the one I was expecting but it's a goodie: Jacky's Diary, a comic book version of a very funny, short-lived comic strip with the same name. Written and drawn by Jack Mendelsohn […]
Here we have an article about what's happened to Paula Poundstone, a comedienne who oughta be working a lot more than she's apparently working. Last time I saw her perform live, I became a big fan. […]