Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Congrats To The 2012 San Francisco Giants!

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Congratulations to the 2012 San Francisco Giants , who swept the heretofore mighty Detroit Tigers to earn their second championship in thr...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

New On DVD: Comedy Kings Roscoe And Shemp!

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A 2-DVD set, The Vitaphone Comedy Collection Vol. 1 — Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle/Shemp Howard (1932-1934) has been released by War...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Not The Worst Comedy Teams Ever

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All this talk of bad comedy teams - Mitchell & Durant, Noonan & Marshall, Sacco & Vanzetti - gets me realizing that boy, do w...
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Tonight: Classic SIlent Era Cartoons On TCM

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Alas, this blog careens back from Broadway to Dinky Duck yet again. Tonight at 12am Eastern/9pm Pacific, Turner Classic Movies is doing...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Burt Bacharach Day - Promises Promises

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Can one pick a favorite Burt Bacharach song, besides the entire Painted From Memory album, in which intrepid multi-genre sonic explorer El...
Monday, October 15, 2012

107 Years Ago Today: The Debut Of Little Nemo In Slumberland

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Today, Google's homepage pays tribute to one of the true innovators of early 20th century comic art, Winsor McCay (1869-1934). McCay ...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Psychotronic Paul's Quote Of The Day - Plus Sonically Engrossing Music

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“Going back to the early King Crimson, the remarkable explosion of the creative impulse in popular music, mainly in rock music, came from th...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Spice Of The Program, Part Five - Presenting Willie Howard

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“Willie Howard was the best of all the revue comics, bar none.” George Jessel “Willie Howard was a great artist. He was a fine comedian, ...
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

The Spice Of The Program, Part Four

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"A strange twilight zone of down-on-their-luck silent era names like Buster Keaton and moonlighting Broadway celebrities like Bert...