UncategorizedWe Haven’t Lost a Train Since 1943Everybody seems to be going free these days; first Squeaky Fromme, and now the perpetrator of the Great Train Robbery of 1963...
CultureSay goodbye to big screen classicsNot many great old movies are being released on DVD now. It’s partly Joan Collins’ fault.
UncategorizedYour Word For the Day: "Emmysfail"The clumsy, lumbering attempts of the networks to basically blackmail the Academy members into nominating more popular shows are...
UncategorizedHUNG UpThe Hung portion of HBO’s TCA press tour was (reportedly) one of the more interesting bits of what is usually a...
UncategorizedMUSIC: A Felix Mendelssohn YearHis birthday came and went in February without my mentioning it, but 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix...
UncategorizedUncritical Self-Criticism, Or a Teachable MomentI posted about a flop show from the ’60s below, and an anonymous (but not particularly shy) commenter wrote : Now, the presence or...
UncategorizedWeekend Viewing: The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.Among failed spinoffs, The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. is one of the better-known ones, probably because the parent show has been popular...
UncategorizedFuturama Contract Dispute Over?If so, it ended pretty much the way most sensible people predicted it would : So the studio threatened to replace them as a...