Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s amalgamation of four Grimm fairy stories with one of their own tales, the Broadway smash Into the Woods, has been given an imaginative transformation onto the big screen by director Rob Marshall, assisted by a…
All three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series have been released on both Blu-ray and DVD. However, the series continuing popularity, and its upcoming fiftieth anniversary in 2016, makes Star Trek: The Original Series a marketers dream. CBS/Paramount recently…
In the 1930’s and ‘40s, when the South was segregated and racism was an accepted practice, most black entertainers were pigeonholed into small, cartoonish roles in comedies and musicals. All black films were a rarity, but two musicals—MGM’s Cabin in…
A simple-minded gas station attendant and later auto mechanic, Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) was originally intended to appear on just one episode of The Andy Griffith Show. Gomer proved so popular, that after a year on the show, Nabors and…
Long one of the most successful animation series on television, The Flintstones have returned in their first new production in fourteen years. A direct-to-video animated film, The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age Smackdown is a partnership between Warner Bros. and…
Undoubtedly one of the most influential people in the history of television, Norman Lear Created, developed and produced some of the most popular and successful series of the 1970’s, including All in the Family, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Jeffersons,…
After several years of waiting, CHIPs: The Complete Third Season has finally made its way to DVD. The first show I remember being appointment television for me, CHIPs focused on two California Highway Patrolman (“CHiPs”), Officers Jon Baker (Larry Wilcox)…
A social crusader and a champion of the first amendment, Lenny Bruce was a man ahead of his time. Incarcerated repeatedly for his act, comedians such as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and a slew of others owe him…
Formed in 1946, Martin and Lewis were comic gold during the first half of the 1950’s, dominating stage, screen, and the new medium of television. The duo even had a radio a radio show on NBC from 1949 until 1953….
Long before the soft core sensuality of Fifty Shades of Grey was heating up theaters, writer/director Zalman King was pushing boundaries with his own brand of eroticism. After co-writing and producing the erotic drama 9 ½ Weeks—which became an international…