On Roy Clark Grave Day, this was inevitable. At least we get some Loretta and Conway in this 1974 episode.
Tag: television
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 whos
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 ended up in St. Louis in the lat
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 in how to turn a beloved piece of our cultural history into the cynical franchise-building exercises of the present. Here’s an excerpt: Another part of […]
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
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 fascinating. Welles oozes
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 at the end of the golden era of film shorts. They are really a lost art. How many great comedic ideas are perfect for a […]
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
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 a
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 is yet another example of Hollywood, and Americans generally, erasing Native American history, assuming like Cooper that there is a last Mohican, when that is […]
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 Deadwoo
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.