Starting next week, MeTV Toons is running the 1979 Plastic Man cartoon show produced by the Ruby-Spears animation studio, which was then the newest cartoon maker in the business. I wrote several episodes including the first one MeTV Toons is airing — "The Weed," which according to my schedule, will air Tuesday morning, February 18 […]
Plans are being made for a Celebration of Life, the life in this case being that of our friend Mike Schlesinger. Details will be posted here as soon as there are details that can be posted here. […]
And in case you didn't see Jon Stewart last night, here's his very funny/perceptive opening segment. It's 22 minutes long and if you don't have time to watch the whole thing, at least move the slider and watch it from the 16:00 mark… […]
I'm not paying as much attention to Donald Trump as…well, as much as some of my friends who are really stressing out over what he's doing and what he's saying he's going to do. Those are not always the same thing but sometimes they are — often enough that if he announced today he was […]
Actually, it's not today's. This is from last Rosh Hashanah, which is when I should have posted it… […]
When I busted my ankle a little over a year ago, I made the decision that when I returned home to recover here, I would live upstairs in my two-story house. I only go downstairs — which is still kind of a struggle — when I have to go to doctor appointments. Oh, and I […]
I miss Charlie Callas — the only man in show business who could do this kind of stuff and call it an act… […]
The MeTV Toons has had to drop Rocky & Bullwinkle from their schedule at the request of its distributor. It may be back, it may not…but last I looked, they're still running 24/7 on a sub-channel of the Xumo Play channel and perhaps others. If you love Moose and Squirrel and can't live without them, […]
That's a photo of my longtime friend Tony Isabella. We met by mail around 1967, by phone around 1968 and in person at the 1970 New York Comic Art Convention. Part of me is sad because there is no more Tony Isabella. But this is not an obit. You see, that person is still alive. […]
I love the song "Camelot" from the Broadway show of the same name but…well, here's an odd performance of it by Richard Burton, who introduced the song in the show's first production. This was on the 1979 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon and Burton looks like he's only doing this because someone offstage is pointing a […]
John Cheves wrote to ask… When I read the letters to the editor in 1960's Batman comics — where your own name occasionally appeared — I see fans who wrote in to compliment Bob Kane on his artwork. They truly seemed to believe that Kane drew those comics. For example, in Batman no. 181 (June […]
The other day here, I mentioned Engineer Bill, who was a fixture of Los Angeles television when I was a kid. He had a couple of different shows and I was briefly (very briefly) on one of them before he went from being Bill Stulla to Engineer Bill. Anecdote here. Here are some short clips […]
Several of you have sent me either (a) copies of real John Dillinger Wanted Posters or (b) inquiries as to whether to see one. Apparently, some of you have never heard of this thing called Google. Look it up even if it means googling Google for the search term "Google." It will point you to […]
A real good (and underappreciated) actor in a lot of real good movies and plays. I never met the man but I'm sorry to see him go. […]
Confession, some say, is good for the soul. I'm about to test that by admitting to something I did a long, long time ago and which I've felt guilty about for that long, long time. Call it an act of fraud. Call it a deception. Call it false advertising…whatever. Please though remember that at the […]