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Saturday, March 18, 2023

The 1970-1971 Television Season: When the Networks Tried to Be "Relevant"

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For the 1970-1971 television season, the broadcast networks' key words were "youth," "now," and "relevance....
Friday, March 17, 2023

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2023

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As many of you know, I don't celebrate St. Patrick's Day as I have absolutely no Irish blood, nor am I a paralegal or engineer. That...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

The Problem with Warner Bros.' 100th Anniversary Video

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Warner Bros. may well have been the first studio from the Golden Age of Hollywood of which I was aware. After all, the Warner Bros. shield w...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

The Academy Needs to Get the Oscars On-Air In Memoriam Right

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The 95th Academy Awards were held this past Sunday and, as usual, film buffs are divided on whether it was good or not. Everyone seems to ag...
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Monday, March 13, 2023

Academy Awards 2023

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Last year was the first year in decades that I did not watch the Academy Awards. Under pressure from ABC, the Academy of Motion Picture Art...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

The Late Great Topol

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Topol, who played milkman Tevye in both the stage and film versions of Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Dr. Hans Zarkov in the movie Flash Go...
Friday, March 10, 2023

The 25th Anniversary of Netflix Sending Out Its First DVD

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Today is my birthday. It was also on March 10 1998 that Netflix sent out its first DVD. For those of you who think of Netflix as a streaming...