Writing this blog can be very educational. Since I posted this morning about Buster Keaton's first TV programs, I've received a number of e-mails telling me things I didn't know and setting me straight on some things I got wrong. I'll have a post up in a few days expanding and correcting this morning's. […]
We need to have at least a couple of renditions of Tom Lehrer's "I'm Spending Hanukkah in Santa Monica" in this countdown so who better than Cali Rose and The CC Strummers, a ukulele group based in Culver City, California? Unlike others who sing this song, they're actually singing this in Santa Monica — at […]
The latest… Performances for Gypsy will resume as scheduled on Sunday, December 29. Due to continued illness within the company, our 2 PM matinee and 8 PM performances today have been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please check with your point of purchase to exchange or refund your tickets. Should we be suspicious that […]
It's hard for me to type the words "Saturday Morning" without recalling what Saturday Morning used to mean to me. Saturday Morning was when I'd get up early — earlier than my parents, at least — and go into the living room. I'm thinking back to when we only had one TV set in the […]
It's been mostly cloudy and cold in Los Angeles with occasional drizzle and sprinkles, and that's what the National Weather Service is projecting most days for as far ahead as they project. But their forecast for January 1 is mostly sunny and 72°. That's because that's New Year's Day and Nature wants everyone who watches […]
This is not strictly a Hanukkah song but I'm sure some people sing it on that holiday somewhere. It's by Mordechai Ben David, who is known as "The King of Jewish Music" in much the same way that Michael Jackson was known as "The King of Pop" because…well, I think that was just because he […]
Tonight's performance of Gypsy at the Majestic Theatre in New York has been cancelled — or even canceled, depending on how you spell it. But you can still buy seats 101 and 102 in Row C for $7,056 each on Stubhub. […]
Here we are with Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live for Season 19. I'm enjoying this series but it startles me that we're not even up to half-way through the show's run… […]
A group called Six13 favors us with "A Wicked Chanukah" (or however you want to spell the name of the holiday). Great voices with some dicey rhymes but I enjoyed this… […]
And now they've cancelled this evening's performance of Gypsy. I don't know why I'm so interested in this. I won't be going to New York in the foreseeable future. Given my current mobility problems, I might not go see it if it was at the Pantages up in Hollywood, five miles from me. At this […]
Today, they were supposed to do a 2 PM matinee and a 7:30 PM evening performance. The matinee has been cancelled — but don't worry. They're still offering tickets for it over on StubHub. There will be an announcement later about the 7:30 performance, which I guess means they're waiting for Audra to decide if […]
This is from a group called the Levees and it's self-explanatory. It's about a problem we who celebrate this holiday all face… […]
This is the final part of these memories that were jogged by the little holiday-themed strip mall in Carpinteria, California. Before you read this part, make sure you've read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3… So in the seventies, when I took trips — alone or with friends — up to the Santa Barbara […]
This is from eighteen years ago so some of these folks, sad to say, are no longer with us. But here's a group of voiceover actors reading a classic Christmas poem. Because of what poem they're reading, I probably should have put this up last night… […]
Christmas Eve, a friend of mine and I watched the new documentary on the life of Christopher Reeve…a man who played Superman about as well as anyone ever could, then sustained a crippling injury and lived what remained of his life about as heroically as anyone ever could. I liked it but maybe not the […]