UncategorizedWeekend Viewing: DR. FINLAY’S CASEBOOKA.J. Cronin was a tremendously successful Scottish novelist, specializing in a warm and friendly mix of drama, comedy, and moral...
UncategorizedCome And Get Me, Copper!Flashpoint really was the start of something; ABC has just become the third network to pick up a Canadian-made procedural...
UncategorizedThose Dastardly Bloggers Ruined Everything For Peter BartThe New York Observer has an item on the collapse of Variety , once the definitive source of Hollywood insider info . What...
UncategorizedNo, Please, Please, No CLUELESS SequelClueless is one of my favourite movies, and I can get very boring and strident explaining why it is the best Jane Austen...
CultureComic strip bombshell!!They ignored Vietnam, 9/11 and Iraq but Archie, Blondie and Co. sure are worried about the economy
UncategorizedWill Regis Philbin Have His Guests Flogged?This isn’t really new at all, but ABC finally made it official: they’re bringing back Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Regis...
UncategorizedFake Laughs, Real Laughs, And All The Laughs In-BetweenSince I was talking the other day about laughs that sound fake even when they’re real, I should link to Earl Pomerantz’s post...
UncategorizedFun Propaganda For All Ages!Since we’re on an Earth Day kick (and lacking the opportunity to write a longer post on something else), I was thinking about...
UncategorizedEarth Day Greetings From A Possum And a PorcupineWalt Kelly , creator of Pogo , had already used the catchphrase "We have met the enemy and he is us" on a poster and in a foreword...
UncategorizedEpisodes That End At the ClimaxA follow-up to my last post : there are some TV episodes that don’t have an "aftermath" scene, a scene where the pressure is...