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I'm hearing too much bad news these days. I need to watch this clip and you can watch it along with me. The young lady is Celina Smith and the policeman was played by Ben Davis. I don't know the dog's real name… […]
Author: Mark Evanier
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A Brief Memory – Part 2 of 2
Before you read Part 2 of this article, you might want to read Part 1. If you know anything about comic book history, you know that the business endured a major slump in the fifties. Folks in the industry — some of them, at least — were worried that there would soon be no comic […]
Today's Video Link
Here's a musical number from a 1958 episode of The Pat Boone Chevy Showcase featuring Pat, Shirley Jones and Dick Van Dyke. Dick has always said that he never thought of himself as a dancer until he won the lead in the Broadway show, Bye Bye Birdie…and yet here he is, two years before Bye […]
If You Drive in California…
…make sure you're aware of this recently-enacted law… Assembly Bill 413, or California's "daylighting" law, went into effect in 2024 and prohibits drivers from stopping, standing or parking their car within 20 feet of a crosswalk and 15 feet of a crosswalk with a curb extension. During the first year of the law's implementation, violators […]
Sunday Evening
I'm not watching — and I shall continue to not watch — any of the inauguration activities. That's not because this country is installing a man who is a convicted felon and a jury-decreed molester and an incredible liar and you can fill in other things that he is for yourself. No, I've never watched […]
Imaginary Image
You may have heard this story back when the Disney movie The Little Mermaid was first released on home video: The cover for the video was painted by a long-time Disney staffer who'd been told this was his last job for them and thereafter, he was fired and persona non goofy in the Disney organization. […]
ASK me: Longest-Working Writer in Comics
Garth Gersten sent me this… Was reading an older interview (2007) with Denny O'Neil where he states, "And I thought, 'Well, I've had a really long run at doing this.' According to Mark Evanier, the longest regularly-working writer in the history of the medium. Maybe it's time to get off the stage and to pass […]
Today's Video Link
For the last few decades, the theatrical community has never let eleven minutes go by without a new Stephen Sondheim tribute. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a little but it sure feels that way. One of the first Sondheim tributes, if not the first, was a one-night concert in 1973 (I think) that also produced a […]
Backwards Thinking
The late Richard Sherman was a delightful man who, alone and with his brother, wrote delightful songs, mainly within the awesome purview of Disney — Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, many rides at the Magic Kingdom, etc. For a number of years, I always seemed to be at parties where he was present and there […]
Comic-Con News
Actually, I'm not sure this is news but Comic-Con International has again extended its deal or contract or agreement or whatever you call it to remain in San Diego and convene at the San Diego Convention Center. The reason this may not be news is that I keep telling you they ain't moving. They're now […]
Petula
My, a lot of Petula Clark fans read this blog. A number of you wrote to tell me that Ms. Clark had recorded a new version of "Downtown" in 2019 with a group called the Saw Doctors. I not only knew about it, I put it up on this site at the time. And a […]
Alison Buckles Hennessey, R.I.P.
This will mostly be of interest to readers of this site who were involved with the Southern California comic book or punk rock communities. Alison Buckles Hennessey — known to most as just Alison Buckles — was found dead in her apartment last Sunday, apparently due to the leukemia she had been battling for quite […]
Mark's 93/KHJ 1972 MixTape #48
In 1964, British composer Tony Hatch and singer Petula Clark gave the world "Downtown" and it instantly became one of the most popular records anywhere at any time. She recorded it in English… She recorded it in Italian… She recorded it in French… She recorded it in German… And in the countries for which she […]
Today's Video Link
Our friend Gary Sassaman does a real nice video series about comic books that meant a lot to him when he was younger. I like it because, among other reasons, the same comics meant a lot to me when I was younger. Here's what Gary's working on for this year… […]
Still More About Mike
Good obit about our pal Michael Schlesinger in Hollywood Reporter. And you can watch a number of his film criticism reports on this page at Trailers From Hell. […]