The final season of Frasier was released on DVD in late 2004 BF, Before Facebook. Spurred on by the advances in social marketing, Paramount asked fans to vote for their favorite episodes of the series, and compiled them in a…
When Aaron Sorkin created Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, producing what was truly one of the best pilots in television history, he should have studied television history in the early ‘90s from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, creator of Designing Women. Not…
At the end of 2011, The New Yorker published an article on how un-French the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy really is. He is a Frenchman who texts on his iPhone at the dinner table, who is loud and crass,…
Every weekend, C-SPAN 2 becomes Book TV, airing talks by, and interviews with, nonfiction authors. Some Fridays, while looking at the schedule on Book TV’s website, I go overboard, recording nearly every program set to air, first the books I…
This is the valley. Santa Clarita. A mere 30 minutes north of the metropolis the formidable Jack Webb called home, but isolated enough by mountains and freeways to make it an escape valve for those who work in Los Angeles…
Before you put either the “British Novelists” disc or “Great Thinkers” disc of In Their Own Words in your DVD player, get a notebook, notepad, legal pad, index cards, scraps of paper, whatever you use to jot down grocery lists,…
All kinds of sweeping pronouncements can be made about the War of 1812, the Civil War, World War II, the Great Depression, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War, among other important events in the history of the United…
My Joy lives up to its brilliant film pedigree as being a well-executed film from any aspect of critique. The screenplay and cinematography are exceptional and work together beautifully. This is the first fiction film for political documentary film-maker, Sergei…
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird is a reader’s paradise not only in detailing the long-reaching and long-lasting influence of quite possibly the most famous American novel in literary history, but also featuring a bevy of authors…
The phenomenon of “fan favorites” always seems a bit contrived to me; just another marketing strategy to get people to repurchase already released material. This time, CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount recently conducted a Facebook poll about seven of its…