If you were enthralled by the Harpo voice clip I posted the other day, you oughta pay a visit to www.marx-brothers.org, one of the better Marxian websites out there. Matter of fact, the clip apparently originated there, and they have another Harpo audio file, along with plenty of info on the Brothers Marx. My apologies […]
ABC, has, as predicted here, announced they'll be replacing Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect with a talk show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. (Apparently, that time slot can only go to a comedian who is known for making degrading remarks about women.) On tonight's edition of his show, Maher started talking about failings of our current president […]
I am about to cost you at least a half-hour of on-line time, especially if you're interested in old show biz memorabilia — Bob Hope's, in particular. The Library of Congress is currently hosting an exhibition of Hope curios and they've put a few dozen items on their website. Browse around and you'll find photos, […]
The Science-Fiction news organ, Locus, is reporting that "Mr. Sci-Fi," Forrest J Ackerman is in Kaiser Hospital following either a stroke or a heart attack. First, they said he was — quote: "Not expected to recover." Now, they're saying he's "doing quite well." Obviously, at age 86, there is ample reason for his friends and […]
Okay, how many of you reacted to the news that Perry Como had died with the thought, "Perry Como was still alive?" And how many of you instantly thought of that great SCTV sketch about him? Two articles to recommend: We previously directed you to Eric Boehlert's amazingly-accurate article that predicted why the XFL would […]
Michael Kinsley has an interesting piece today about free content on the Internet — and you can read it for free either at the Washington Post website or on Slate. Here's a direct link to the article on the latter. […]
As mentioned here weeks ago, Eric Idle is currently making a sequel to his "mockumentary," The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. This new one is called Can't Buy Me Lunch and I saw it this evening at a test screening/preview which Mr. Idle hosted to check for weak spots. There weren't many. It features […]
A company called BFS has just brought out six episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show on DVD. The episodes are as follows: Never Name a Duck, Bank Book 6565696, Hustling the Hustler, The Night the Roof Fell In, A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own and Give Me Your Walls! All of them are […]
For those of you who like the political-type articles I occasionally link here, I have one for you. John Harris of the Washington Post recently published this piece about how the press is treating Bush, as opposed to how they treated Clinton, and why. Here's one chunk that jumped out at me: The truth is, […]
The unseemly man on the comic book covers above is Maurice Gosfield, who played Pvt. Duane Doberman on the old Sgt. Bilko TV show, also known as The Phil Silvers Show and/or You'll Never Get Rich. (There was a Sgt. Bilko comic and it did quite well for a while. Since DC was paying a flat […]
If'n you have the slightest hankerin' to hear tell about that there picture show what they named Song of the South, there's a right purty website what's harder to resist than a tarbaby in a briar patch and…I'm sorry. I couldn't keep that dialect up any longer. What I was trying to say was that […]
Turning to other business: In honor of our 10,000th "hit" here, we have unveiled a major facelift of this site, which has involved moving a number of things around and (probably) creating some new "bugs" that will be fixed in the coming weeks. If some of it doesn't make sense, know that the new design […]
Well, I've been saying there wouldn't be a Writers Guild strike but it's still nice to hear them say so on the news. For what it's worth: What I believe happened here was that our Guild approached the negotiations with a new, preemptive attitude that paid off. In the past, the Producers came to each […]
As I write this, the little counter on the Home page tells me we're closing in on 10,000 distinct hits since this silly site went up last December. Assuming I read the stats correctly — never a safe assumption — these standings have less to do with the quality, if any, of the writing therein, […]
Speaking of aberrations:If you're interested in the question of what happened with the vote down in Florida, you'll probably want to read an article by John Lantigua which is running this week in The Nation. It details an amazing list of things that state officials allegedly did to prevent minority voters from exercising their rights […]