Showing posts with label TV or not TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV or not TV. Show all posts
10 July 2026

“Possibly the most pathetic group of Hollywood ‘has-beens’”

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Yesterday I quoted the February 1959 story from the the Associated Press’s Hollywood columnist Bob Thomas that began: The recent deaths of ...
03 July 2026

Credit Where It’s Due

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I view the public discussion over fair credit for Rachel Hope Cleves’s Charity and Sylvia in Tillie Walden’s Charity and Sylvia from a pa...
30 October 2025

At Last an Our Gang/Wizard of Oz Crossover

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In 1962, as described yesterday , Starlight Musical Theatre of San Diego held tryouts for a production of The Wizard of Oz , using music fro...
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28 October 2025

How Johnny Downs Grew Up

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I mentioned Our Gang cast member Johnny Downs in this posting on Elmer “Scooter” Lowry going into vaudeville. Johnny Downs was born in 19...
10 September 2025

Are You Gonna?

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“Are You Gonna Be My Girl?” performed by WJM (William Lipton, Jeremy Yun, and Max Simas, with guest bassist Collin Simas, uploaded to YouT...
22 September 2020

Stillwater Runs 3-D

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I actually made a little noise in my throat when I saw how animators are interpreting Jon J. Muth’s Zen Shorts watercolor art for a telev...
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07 April 2020

Reading the Monkey

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In this time of pandemic throughout the Great Outside World, Prof. Dina Massachi and the International Wizard of Oz Club have organized a ...
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07 November 2019

The Real Legacy of He Walked by Night

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He Walked by Night didn’t influence The Third Man , but it definitely did influence American popular entertainment. To start with, it app...
20 August 2019

Television the Great and Terrible

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The MGM Wizard of Oz has gone through three stages defined by how we the public got to watch it. First was the reception that the film...
15 December 2015

Marvelous Land in Minneapolis

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Back in 1981, the Children’s Theatre Company and School of Minneapolis staged a production of L. Frank Baum’s The Marvelous Land of Oz . O...
09 December 2015

The Feelings We Once Had

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Of all the famous dramatic adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , The Wiz in its original form is the most faithful....
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12 November 2015

Kryptonian Babysitting Service

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There’s a lot to like in the new Supergirl television series, but there’s one detail in the introductory voiceover that I don’t like at a...
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04 November 2015

A Golden Time for a New Golden Compass?

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The news that there’s a deal for a television adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series is very intriguing for us fans. It...
20 November 2014

Publishers as Venture Capitalists?

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Another of Paul Levitz’s observations about the publishing industry last week was that book publishers have usually operated like bankers....
19 November 2014

A Paradox of Geek Fandom

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Last week I sat in on a discussion with Paul Levitz, former President at DC Comics, at MIT’s Media Lab. (The door to the building said I h...
09 November 2014

“No other comic-book character has lasted as long”

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In articles derived from her new book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman , Jill Lepore has been talking up that comic-book heroine’s plac...
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08 November 2014

Where Serials End Up

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Someone else considering the workings of serial fiction this week was Linda Holmes, writing for NPR on the public-radio-related podcast Se...
23 October 2014

No Justifiable Homicides for Superheroes

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Recapping network television episodes seems to be big business for entertainment websites these days. I did it myself for Den of Geek and ...
28 September 2014

Beyond Batman Beyond

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It’s interesting to watch what DC Comics has done with its Batman Beyond storyline this year, reflecting changes in its target audience. ...
26 September 2014

Gingrich’s Leap of Language

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On Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama spoke about the expansion of the US war in Afghanistan and Iraq into ISIL-occupied Syria. The Whi...
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