For those of you watching Game Show Network's Black and White Overnight block: They just aired the last prime-time episode of To Tell the Truth. Tomorrow night, they begin running episodes from the daytime version of the show hosted by Bud Collyer, although the first one has Jack Clark sitting in as guest host. In […]
E.J. Dionne explains why he liked the California Gubernatorial debate. […]
Like Karnak the Magnificent, we give the answers before the questions. As I was posting the previous message explaining about the music changes in the reruns of WKRP, Jim Lawless was sending the following question about one of the episodes TV Land aired this evening… Toward the end of this episode, Carlson called Venus and […]
If you set your TiVo to tape the "Turkey" episode of WKRP in Cincinnati tonight, you instead got the episode where Mr. Carlson (Gordon Jump) assisted in the delivery of his child. In tribute to the late Mr. Jump, TV Land switched around the schedule to run four episodes that spotlighted his character, none of […]
I never met Donald O'Connor and have no anecdotes about him that I didn't pick up in books, but I always thought he was a class act in everything he did. The "Make 'Em Laugh" number in Singin' in the Rain may be my favorite movie musical number — and that's no small achievement, doing […]
Tuesday night, one of David Letterman's guests is a gent named Ray Wold, who bills himself as a "pyrotechnician." This is a fancy term meaning that he sets himself on fire. I first saw Ray Wold around 1993 when he was in a revue called "Hot Stuff" that played at the Sands Hotel in Las […]
It isn't just rabid conservatives who can't turn loose of the notion that Hillary Clinton is running for president. Over on the Newsweek site, there's an article by Eleanor Clift that is headlined, "Why Hillary May Still Run For President." But if you actually read the article, Clift says… I don't believe she'll run in […]
Okay, I promised this story. But first, let me note that Gary DeJong did some research and unearthed the info that the first of the two Archie pilots done in 1976-1977 aired on December 19. 1976 and starred Audrey Landers as Betty, Hilary Thompson as Veronica, Mark Winkworth as Reggie, Derrel Maury as Jughead, Jane […]
Yesterday afternoon, I attended one of the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters luncheons. P.P.B. is a group of folks with extensive credits in TV and radio, and every so often, they assemble at the Sportsmen's Lodge out on Ventura Boulevard for mediocre food and good company. The honoree this time was Jack Klugman (seen above left and […]
Yesterday, I linked to a short interview with Lynn Johnston, who does the For Better of For Worse newspaper strip. In that piece, there's a reference to a longer interview that ran in the magazine, Hogan's Alley. Here's a link to that piece. (Don't thank me. Thank Nat Gertler, who told me about it.) […]
Here's a website full of ads from old comic books. For all you Sea Monkey fans. (Thanks to Bruce Reznick for the pointer.) […]
Here's a short but interesting interview with Lynn Johnston, who does the newspaper strip, For Better or For Worse. And a fine strip it is. […]
If I were to mention a successful playwright with a background in cartooning, a lot of you would instantly think of Jules Feiffer, and that would be correct. But the description also fits Herb Gardner, author of A Thousand Clowns, I'm Not Rappoport, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things […]
I TiVoed it earlier and I've just finished watching it. If I had to pick a winner, I'd probably pick Gray Davis, who wasn't even there. I can't imagine too many viewers deciding to vote for any of these people because of what they said in the debate, but I can sure imagine someone deciding […]
Jesse White was a very funny man and a great stage performer (I saw him playing Oscar in The Odd Couple and Mushnick in Little Shop of Horrors, and he was great in both.) As with many character actors, he did his best work in parts that paid little and went largely unnoticed, then made […]