Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Rox again is rocking with the Halloween vids. Here's an episode of Suspense from 1949 updating Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado. That's Romney Brent in the role of Montresor and Bela Lugosi as Fortunato. And yes, that's Ray Walston as one of the American GIs. It's almost endearing how [...]
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
By David Lambert - The number of stalled series which are returning to DVD with new releases continues to grow! The folks at Shout! Factory have worked hard in acquiring licenses for this purpose, too,... (more)
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Wouldn't it be nice if the media pundits finally got it right and reported the story as I have? John McCain has sold his soul...
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The revolution here is that devices other than pacemakers can use Zarlink chips, and thus deliver daily reports on their actions, rather than the quarterly reports patients must now rely upon.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
BELEAGUERED Bronx Bombers fans won't find much comfort at City Center, where the team isn't having any better luck in "Damn Yankees," the wonderful revival from the company that brought us the latest Tony-winning "Gypsy." Granted, this 1955...
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
558. In the Flesh FORMULA: The First Duty + Conspiracy WHY WE LIKE IT: Who doesn't love Ray Walston? WHY WE DON'T: Taking the guts out of Species 8472. REVIEW: We're back on Earth, Starfleet Command, and someone's watching us and taking pictures. Reverse shot: It's a bug-eyed face - no, it's the camera - and the alien is revealed to be Chakotay. An opening not without some visual flair though we might...
This Distracted Globe (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
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TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
By David Lambert - Recently the folks at Amazon.com have been simply ON TOP OF IT, with advance pre-order listings of TV-DVD releases that are among the most-wanted items by fans, but which haven't even... (more)
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Reader Troy forwarded this top-five look at screen teachers. It's a fine list, terribly sincere, but some of my top-five would go for a vaguely different vibe: Caren Kaye – My Tutor (1983) Ray Walston — Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) Michael Caine — Educating Rita (1983) Ben Stein — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) Gene Hackman – Hoosiers (1986) For the [...]
In One Ear... (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
5.The Economics Teacher(Ben Stein)-Ferris Bueller’s Day Off One of the most memorable moments of the popular movie is oddly very simply. And on paper it does not seem all that funny. But it is all in Stein’s dry and boring delivery. His teacher comes across as having given up…not really concerned with Bueller’s absence, more just [...]
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Tony Winner Krakowski and Emmy Winner Hayes to Star in Encores! Damn YankeesJane Krakowskiphoto by Ben StrothmannJane Krakowski, who won a 2003 Tony Award for her work as Carla in the Tony-winning revival of Nine, will play another stage siren in the upcoming City Center Encores! Summer Stars production of Damn Yankees.Krakowski will portray Lola — the role originally created by the late Gwen Verdon...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Encores! Will Present Damn Yankees as Summer Stars Production; Rando DirectsTony Award-winning director John RandoFollowing its acclaimed production of Gypsy, which recently transferred to Broadway's St. James Theatre, City Center's Encores! Summer Stars series will continue in July with the classic baseball-themed musical Damn Yankees.According to a casting notice, the 1955 musical will play the famed...
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
I’ve spent a lot of time the last couple of days at Classic Television Showbiz, a wondrous website that scours YouTube and other video sites for long-gone television shows, as well as ephemera such as commercials, station breaks, and who-knows-what-else. Among the wonders: –A full episode, with commercials, of My World and Welcome to It, the [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
The Apartment (1960) was produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. It was Wilder's follow up to the enormously popular Some Like It Hot and was an equal hit, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon), an insurance clerk who is only a face in a crowd of 30,000 employees, has a little problem: He can't use his own apartment....
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
By David Lambert - With all the strangeness lately regarding DVD releases of My Favorite Martian, now is a great time to get the inside track on what's going on, right? Jack Chertok Television Productions... (more)
