Back in this message, we linked you to fresh, good quality audios of the opening and closing of the 1966 Marvel Super-Heroes cartoon show. All the themes from that series are now online and you can listen to 'em here. There's reportedly a vinyl (VINYL!) record of them out, too. […]
Here's me filling out one of those online questionnaires that make the rounds. This one's about one's Senior Year in high school… Class of: 1969 Did you know your current love? Nope. Type of car? Didn't have a car then. I was highly dependent on the Santa Monica Bus Lines. What kind of work did […]
I have a whole bunch of messages like this one from Jim Graves… I'm probably not the first to send you this, but in case I am, here is an article in the Hollywood Reporter website regarding the death of Welcome Back, Kotter co-creator Alan Sacks. I assume you knew him from your time working […]
Just to remind you: Open Registration for Comic-Con 2025 is this coming Saturday, November 23. The online portal to obtain badges didn't work last time they tried this but it should work this time — "should" being the operative word. If you're going to leap into this mosh pit, make sure you read this page […]
A few months ago here, I posted a lot of videos of different folks performing the "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" number from the musical Guys and Dolls. Most of you concluded that the best rendition was the one performed by Stubby Kaye in the movie based on the show…and he (of course) was […]
Back in this post, I discussed a cartoon special I wrote back in 1982 called Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper. Among the scandalous facts I revealed about it was that I had Snagglepuss wish everyone a Happy Hanukkah and then someone at CBS had "Hanukkah" cut out of the show before it aired. The […]
Sad to have to report the passing of Clydene Nee, one of the indispensable workers — I think she was a volunteer — at Comic-Con International in San Diego since 1979. Since '89, she was in charge of the Artists' Alley area, a thankless job because there are always way more people who want those […]
Beginning in late 1979, I had about five or six of the most interesting and fatiguing months of my life. I was the Head Writer of a variety show on NBC that starred a very good comedian and two Japanese ladies who were ultra-mega-superstars in their own country but unknown in this one. The program […]
Here's a nice roundup of all the shows written by Mr. Stephen Sondheim with some good musical excerpts. […]
From Adam Kennedy… Hey Mark, here's a question that you may have answered on your blog before. On Garfield & Friends (which I love) I remember the slightly uncomfortably titled, "Quickies" were often (always?) direct adaptations of Garfield comic strips straight from the rag to the tube — rather like many latter day Peanuts "specials." […]
Here is the third and final installment in Alton Brown's video crusade to convince people who want to cook a turkey a dangerous way to not use nuclear power or rockets or lava or anything like that but instead to use his invention, the Turkey Derrick. This is somewhat selfless of Mr. Brown since he […]
Did you ever see Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb? You should because Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb is one of the greatest, darkest comedy films ever made. It's currently watchable without commercial interruption on YouTube (and therefore in the […]
From Phil Rushton… I guess there are as many ways of writing as there are writers but I was interested to hear that you are currently writing two books at the same time (does the subject of the non-Kirby one also have a surname beginning with 'K'?). Personally, I find it hard to switch my […]
In 1947 when it didn't look like there'd ever be any other Marx Brothers movies, Groucho appeared sans siblings in a film called Copacabana. It wasn't a very good film, nor was Love Happy which featured Groucho, Chico and mostly Harpo a couple of years later. But Copacabana did have about six minutes of Groucho […]
I'm not reading much about the election or the cabinet or what went wrong or will go wrong or any of that. But from what I have seen, I get the idea that now that Trump has won the 2024 Presidential Election, his next goal is to win the 2020 Presidential Election. […]