If I had to pick the Number One reason to oppose Donald Trump getting a second term…well, it would be tough to pick just one. The fact that he's insane and determined to be accountable to no one would be a strong contender. So would the hatred and divisiveness he loves to spread. But I […]
Matthew Ohara sent me this link to an article with more on the effort to resurrect the Koo Koo Roo restaurant chain. I'm not getting my hopes up because this is still in the "too good to be true" category. I'll be a bit less skeptical if/when I hear they've actually made a deal for […]
Didn't see any of the Democratic National Convention today…though I was concerned that Kamala Harris might not accept the nomination. I had a lot of work to do and the first three days of this political Kaffeeklatsch may have left me conventioned-out. Fortunately, we now live in a world where it you miss a TV […]
And here we go with a remembrance of Season 10 of Saturday Night Live. This edition of Everything You Need To Know About Saturday Night Live tells of how producer Dick Ebersol transformed the program into (basically) The Martin Short and Billy Crystal Show. It was not a bad season but it led into a […]
Okay, so Kamala seems to be three points ahead of That Other Guy and that's by polling that reflects little or none of any "bounce" she's going to get from the Democratic National Convention. Not bad. There are polls that say it's more or less than three but this ain't a bad place to be […]
Here's a Mel-dey — a medley of songs from all the musicals written by Mel Brooks — both of them… […]
If you're wondering about the songs played during yesterday's disco roll call at the D.N.C., here's the set list. A lot of someones put a lot of time, thought and effort into this. […]
I was not prepared yesterday to get so interested in the Democratic National Convention. I don't recall watching any of these with any intensity once we passed the stage where the nominees were in doubt before the gathering. Once that variable was eliminated, conventions basically became infomercials and very predictable. Even the speeches by folks […]
I'm not going to get my hopes up yet but a Southern California real estate firm has announced they're bringing back the Koo Koo Roo chain of fast food restaurants…or maybe we should say they're trying to bring back the Koo Koo Roo chain of fast food restaurants. And maybe I should explain that Koo […]
I planned to just tune in to see Bernie Sanders, Michelle Obama and that guy she's married to. But I peeked in early to see what was going on and they were doing the roll call, not as stodgy speeches but as some super-energized disco dance party with delegate after delegate saying wonderful things, not […]
Here are five more and these may be the last of them here. Or they may not. You never know with this blog… In 1971, the Rankin-Bass studio made the deal that gave us Jackson 5ive — that was how it was spelled — featuring the adventures of what was then one of the hottest […]
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DC Comics just issued a facsimile edition of House of Secrets #92, the 1971 comic that introduced Swamp Thing. I haven't seen a copy of this but the ads say "Written by Len Wein, Joe Orlando and Virgil North, Art by Bernie Wrightson, Bill Draut, Dick Dillin, Alan Lee Weiss and Tony DeZuniga." This makes […]
If you're in or around Los Angeles, you have a rare chance to see my pal Frank Ferrante perform An Evening With Groucho on September 29 at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. And you don't even have to wait for the evening because he's doing it in the afternoon. Get your tickets here […]
Since we're remembering Groucho today, here's a little under six minutes of lines from his movies… […]
Well, some of it. I think those things are always too long, especially with an audience that cheers every mention of the candidate's name and any sentence about them winning. Cutting down (or out) a few speeches would have eliminated repetition, made the rest of the evening more effective and gotten the star of the […]