This website, the reliability of which is unknown to me, is claiming that a deal has been reached for Pete Rose to return cautiously to the world of baseball, including possible entry into the Hall of Fame. A spokesperson for Major League Baseball denies the report but the website is standing by its story. So […]
Another obit. […]
Here's a good article on Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants and many other creatures and things. […]
According to this story in the Marin Independent Journal, we may not get to vote for Father Guido… A third candidate, Don Novello of San Anselmo, a comedian known for his portrayal of the character Father Guido Sarducci on NBC's Saturday Night Live, filed the paperwork but failed to get enough valid signatures to qualify, […]
Yes, the "Don Novello" who appears to have qualified for the California gubernatorial ballot is the same Don Novello who portrayed (and may still portray, for all I know) the eminent Father Guido Sarducci. For those of you who can't place the name, Father Sarducci was the gossip columnist and rock critic for the Vatican […]
For months now, Gary Owens has been telling me about his role in this. It's an animated show about the fabled star for whom Rob Petrie, Sally Rogers and Buddy Sorrell wrote on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Maybe Dick didn't get a comic book out of the deal but Carl got a cartoon show. […]
Here's an article in The Washington Post entitled, "Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence." Despite its rep from Watergate days, the Post has been very reticent to suggest the White House wasn't being entirely candid with the American people. This and a few other pieces suggest that is changing. […]
Most PBS stations are running a nice little special this week. It's called Broadway's Lost Treasures and it features musical numbers from great Broadway shows as they were performed on the Tony Award broadcasts. You get Robert Preston doing "Trouble" and Zero Mostel singing "If I Were a Rich Man" and Jerry Orbach and the […]
Frank Rich on all the sudden interest in gay lifestyles, including the possibility of wedlock. […]
If I read the schedule correctly (never more than a 50% probability), the episodes of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart that run during the day on Monday are both last week's outing with guest Tracey Ullman. The Daily Show airs three times a day on Comedy Central. The last of these (at 7:30 or […]
And here's a link to the obit for Bill Woolfolk that ran in the New York Times. Did I mention that Mr. Woolfolk struck me as a very nice, very dedicated man? At the Comic-Con in San Diego last year, he was very proud that people remembered and loved his work, and we had a […]
As discussed here some time ago, there are plans afoot to tear down the old Hanna-Barbera building on Cahuenga Boulevard and replace it with one of those shopping malls that Southern California can't have enough of. Hey, yesterday I actually drove five blocks without passing a Victoria's Secret. Over at Animation Blast, Amid Amidi expresses his […]
You've all seen them: "Non-scientific" polls that ask you to vote if you love the president or hate his policies or want to see gay marriage in Iraq or some other hot-button issue. They're non-scientific because anyone can vote and if they take the time to figure out how to delete cookies and/or mask their […]
Another obit on comic book and TV writer William Woolfolk, who passed away last month. […]
Here's yet another in the long list of things that bother me about the California recall… An awful lot of our political discourse in this country is driven, I am convinced, by folks who fan flames for monetary gain. I don't think there's much chance of Hillary Clinton running for president in 2004 but a […]