Showing posts with label nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Show all posts
29 October 2025

The Wizard of Balboa Park

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The San Diego Civic Light Opera Association was founded in 1945. Its first show was Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado  in the Wegeforth Bowl...
06 May 2020

Looking Back on Claude Jarman’s Hollywood

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I read about the child actor Claude Jarman, Jr., before I saw him in a movie, and it wasn’t a complimentary read. The Medved brothers’ Gol...
24 December 2019

Life Lessons from the MGM Movie

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Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow is a short but not insubstantial riff on the MGM Wizard of Oz . The author, Peter Guzz...
03 November 2019

Restorative Young Justice

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I was intrigued by the news that Brian Michael Bendis was reviving DC Comics’s original Young Justice team, featured from 1998 to 2003. I ...
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03 August 2019

Catching Bob le flambeur at Last

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In my mid-teens I saw a bunch of movies at the now-closed Nickelodeon cinema, the type of theater that flourished in college towns before ...
06 October 2017

Choice Bits from M. T. Anderson

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Entertainment Weekly’s interview with M. T. Anderson about his new novella, Landscape with Invisible Hand , focused on its timeliness and...
13 July 2017

What the New Spider-Man Comes Home to

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Back in 2014, it was widely reported that Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a superhero movie crossed with a 1970s political thril...
16 November 2014

DC to Feed Nostalgia for Six to Twelve Years Ago

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DC Comics executive Dan DiDio told USA Today that the company’s “Convergence” crossover event for next spring will return to older versio...
23 September 2014

Finding Neverland Has a Lot to Answer For

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In 2004 Miramax released Finding Neverland , with Johnny Depp playing a handsomer-than-real-life James M. Barrie, Kate Winslet as a more-w...
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15 April 2014

What Captain America Missed Around the World

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At one point in the Avengers movie, Captain America is excited to finally recognize one of the pop-culture references people are throwing...
14 April 2014

Reacting to “Kids React to…”

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I grew up with dial telephones. The family of my best friend in first grade had a “princess” phone with a smaller dial in the handset, but t...
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13 April 2014

Old Teen Titans for Old Fans

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DC Comics made news a couple of weeks back by announcing the end of its Teen Titans series, and then last week by announcing the start of...
01 December 2013

More Retrospective Than Retroactive

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A while back I looked at DC Comics’s Legacies miniseries , a summary of its 1986-2011 superhero universe’s history. Just after Legacies ...
30 October 2013

The Editorial Wee

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The New York Times obituary for Sid Yudain, rounder of the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call , contained an anecdote that seems like it s...
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07 July 2013

The Batman ’66 Comic: Retro on the Digital Edge

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I wasn’t a big fan of the 1960s Batman television show while growing up. I caught a few episodes, and, though I didn’t recognize the delibe...
31 March 2013

Is One’s Choice of Best Robin Generational?

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Chris Sims of Comics Alliance (and, earlier, the Invincible Super-Blog) posted a very good essay this week on the questions: “Who is or was...
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21 March 2013

The Real Sources of Oz the Great and Powerful

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Yesterday I noted how Oz the Great and Powerful credits “the Works of L. Frank Baum ” as its source but doesn’t actually draw much from th...
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03 February 2013

What Legacies Left Us

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DC Universe: Legacies was a comics series published in 2010-11 during an apparent wave of nostalgia at DC Comics. It was scripted by Len ...
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08 December 2012

Argo Nots

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The movie Argo is a triumph of production design, recreating the look and sound of Teheran, Washington, and Hollywood in 1980. Which is abs...
12 September 2012

Our Anachronistic Equine Vocabulary

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There’s no Y in “linchpin.” Lots of people have taken to spelling the word with a Y in place of the first I because we hardly ever see lin...
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