In 1976, Dick Van Dyke had a weekly variety show on NBC that not nearly enough people watched. It went on the air on September 20 and the last of its eleven episodes aired on December 30. I wrote about it in this post earlier this year but I'll save you the trouble of clicking […]
Thanks to all the folks who wrote but I've decided to just forget about watching David Letterman on the Samsung TV Plus channel. I am less enthused than I was before I learned that they're running selected excerpts, not whole shows. There are oodles of old Letterman clips on YouTube that I haven't gotten around […]
I do not want to suggest even in the slightest way that it was a good thing that someone — presumably, the guy they've arrested and have a ton of evidence against including some near-confessions — gunned down that health care CEO. Awful, wrong, illegal, prosecute him to the max. But I do think it's […]
Here's a bunch of people at a small dinner gathering to celebrate Rose Marie's ninety-somethingth birthday back in 2013. The lady at the lower left is Arlene Silver, otherwise known as Mrs. Dick Van Dyke. The gent next to her is Mr. Dick Van Dyke. The lady next to him is Rose Marie. The two […]
I had a few "golden oldies" on my 1972 mixtape and a few novelty songs. This entry qualifies in both categories. In 1962, the Los Angeles Dodgers — who had not been in Los Angeles for long — had a rousing, grudge-filled battle for the pennant with the San Francisco Giants. It aroused a lot […]
So not only do I not understand how to watch the new David Letterman channel on Samsung TV, this interview shows that David doesn't understand it either. But it's about other things too and I found a lot of it interesting… […]
A lot of people are informing me that the David Letterman material being aired now on Samsung TV is not (repeat: not) full shows. It's all packages of excerpts, kinda like one might see someone assemble on YouTube. Okay, fine. I guess part of that is someone not wanting to pay to clear music. No […]
The Comic Art Professional Society was founded in 1977 by Don Rico, Sergio Aragonés and myself and held its first meeting on June 9 of that year. Last night, it held its final meeting so it was around for 47 years, 6 months and 2 days. It was a gathering entity for folks in Southern […]
Starting today, there's a new channel on Samsung TV that runs clips from old David Letterman shows. And like me, you may be thinking, "What the hell is Samsung TV?" Well, apparently — and this is the first I've heard of this — Samsung TVs and certain other Samsung devices have been coming with their […]
Stephen Colbert, asking the questions found in the famous Colbert Questionnaire, asks his guests to name the one song they'd pick if they had only had one song they could listen to for the rest of their lives. If I were ever asked this question, I would name The Piano Sonata No. 11 in A […]
I have written a few times on this blog about the 1996 Broadway revival of my favorite musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. I thought it was a great production and here's what a few of the TV critics had to say about it at the time. You'll see a […]
If you think the asking prices on Stubhub for tickets to see Audra in Gypsy this evening were steep, someone is now offering a pair for tomorrow night for $3,215…and that's for each and on top of that, there's a service charge of $889 each. I'll save you the trouble of doing the math: It's […]
George Kresge, better known as "The Amazing Kreskin," has died just a few weeks short of his ninetieth birthday. As I explained in this post here not long ago, I don't like it when magicians — and that's what he was — try to pass off their tricks as genuine mentalism because I don't believe […]
I'm not going much of anywhere until my ankle is a lot better so there's very little chance of me being in New York in the next six months. Even if I could be there, I don't think I'd be rushing to see the new production of Gypsy there starring Audra McDonald as Mama Rose. […]
I'm trying to work but my mind keeps drifting to friends who have been evacuated from their homes by the wildfires in and around Malibu. When we talk about the proper role of government in our lives, I wish there was more concern given to dealing with natural disasters. Among the responders who are called […]