This is the grave of Lucille Ball. Born in Jamestown, New York in 1911, Ball grew up in a working class family. Her father was a lineman for AT&T and moved around a lot to work on the phone lines. By the time she was...
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OK, you hooplehead cocksuckers, it's time to treat yourself to Matt Zoller Seitz's recent deep dives into each episode of Deadwood's 1st season. It's a prime combo--the best writing in.
This is the grave of Don Pardo. Born in 1918 in Westfield, Massachusetts, Dominick Pardo grew up in an immigrant household. His parents had migrated from Poland and ran a.
This is the grave of Alice Ghostley. Born in Eve, Missouri in 1923, Ghostley grew up in Henryetta, Oklahoma. The family was well-off enough that she could go to the University of Oklahoma when that still wasn't that common from women in the area. But...
This is the grave of Marlin Perkins. Born in 1905 in Carthage, Missouri, Perkins got interested in animals as a young child. He nearly died of pneumonia at the age.
We should remember the wonderful if bizarre career of Dean Stockwell now that he has passed on from the planet. He was great in so much. When he did Quantum.
Why on Earth is the weekly Saturday Night Live limply written, questionably acted, and toothless political humor now such a big deal that every week it trends on Twitter? We have gotten to the point of the New York Times reporting on the weekly perambulations....
An extremely rare television review from me, as I am horrible at sitting down and watching shows. Much of this comes from my deep contempt for the culture of binge.
On Roy Clark Grave Day, this was inevitable. At least we get some Loretta and Conway in this 1974 episode. https://www.youtube.com/embed/xMU_Td11y58
Well, hey there! In case you missed it, over at the Ringer, I wrote about Ted Lasso’s place in the grand tradition of “players coaches” like Joe Gibbs and "Sparky" Anderson: men whose front-facing kindness and constant self-effacement was the thin veneer obscuring a competitiveness...
This is the grave of David Garroway. Born in 1913 in Schenectady, New York, Garroway lived all over the place as a child, as his parents moved constantly. They finally.
This Joshua Rivera piece of criticism about the evolution of the Muppets is really quite good. Recent iterations of this (Jason Segel's excellent film excluded) have been a case study.