This is the grave of Frank McGee. Born in 1921 in Monroe, Louisiana, McGee grew up in Oklahoma as his dad worked in the oil fields. He wasn't necessarily headed for a fancy career, but he fought in World War II and then went to...
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Last night, I watched this 1970 appearance by Orson Welles on the Dick Cavett Show, after Jack Lemmon had already been interviewed and was also on the stage. It's quite.
This 1953 short is an absolutely outstanding satire of early television and the chaos it brought to households and neighborhoods. That's a first rate late film cameo! This was also.
Alyssa Rosenberg has a very interesting piece noting at how a century of cop films and then television shows has served as propaganda for the fascists running amok in our cities today. Like many other industries, entertainment companies have issued statements of support for the...
Upon Fred Willard's death, I was reminded of something I had heard about for years, but never watched--The History of White People in America, the 1985 short mockumentary starring Willard.
Evidently there is going to be yet another film version of Last of the Mohicans (yawn), this time for television. And as the Mohegan theatre director Madeline Sayet notes, this.
This post will contain plenty of spoilers from the Deadwood movie, so I don't want to hear any complaints from you hoopleheads. Like many of you, I waited with great anticipation for the Deadwood movie. Deadwood is my favorite show of all time. I recognize...
Twenty years ago today, The Sopranos debuted. Crazy. That's the beginning of the revolution in television and what a reengineering of the genre it has been.
One of my New Year's resolutions for 2018 was to watch more television. I've slowly increased my TV viewing over the last couple of years in response to the great.
The first episode of the new show "Who Is America?" doesn't live up to the hype from the Earth-shaking NRA sketch. Blogmate Simon Balto brought your attention to the viral video that emerged to promote Sacha Baron Cohen's new show "Who Is America?" where he...
This is the grave of Fred Rogers. Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, easily the best thing to ever come out of that town and that VERY MUCH includes Rolling.
Well this sounds awesome. Werner Herzog is coming to television as the director and executive producer of “Fordlandia,” a new series set in the 1920s and based on Henry Ford’s.