DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2020
Jun
16
 
 
Long ago and not so far away, in the dark ages before social media, Mae West was better known to Americans than Kim Kardashian is today. And she had a whole lot more to offer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
16
 
 
Mae West strolled into a Hollywood that wasn’t ready for her. This was a place that preferred women to be young, thin, and quiet. She was none of those...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
16
 
 
As TV scrambles to find social-distance drama, a logical option appears: What about animation?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
16
 
 
A whole lot of folks, presumably, are almost as saturated with COVID-19 coverage on television as they are by the restrictions COVID-19 has laid on them in real life...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
16
 
 
This day in 1952 marked the first telecast of the CBS sitcom My Little Margie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
15
 
 
This day in 2007 marked Bob Barker's final appearance as host of the long-running game show, The Price is Right...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
15
 
 
This is a warning, not a recommendation.  Again. I warned about this ABC show last week, when it made its initial appearance, gobbling up three hours’ worth of the network’s prime time schedule – every Monday night minute of it – to present what purported to be “the best” from The Bachelor over its 24 editions since premiering in 2002. I joked, at the time, that three hours presenting the finest moments from The Bachelor woul
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
15
 
 
Cameron Crowe wrote and directed this 2000 movie, a semi-autobiographical account of his days as one of the youngest writers ever to report for Rolling Stone magazine. It won him an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, but it’s gotten even more fun to watch over the years as its various cast members have enjoyed additional success of their own. Patrick Fugit, who plays Crowe’s cinematic stand-in William Miller, hasn’t done much since then, but oh my, so many others hav
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
15
 
 
This documentary is about a very different Marion the Librarian – not the sweet small-town Iowa “spinster” of The Music Man, but a wealthy woman of color who lived in the Barclay Hotel in Philadelphia’s chic Rittenhouse Square, was active in social causes, appeared on a local TV current-affairs and arts show, and loved the original Star Trek series because of what she perceived as its socialist utopian vision of the future. In late 1975, when Sony rele
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
15
 
 
To know a thing might not be to own a thing exactly, but knowledge goes a long way toward understanding...