The way t9 check is to look at NBC ads for new shows. If new one is on Monday at 9 you know. In this way you can see that ABC is getting rid of Detroit 187 and Castle by March 29. Note that Castle had a good episode last night after The Cape, tipping its cap to the X-Files (Rob Bowman is a Castle Producer) in a very…

This is a better explanation. For there are many outstanding questions that were not answered on the show:
1. What was the purpose of this list of names these five were found on? All shape shifters? Did the FBI track them all down?
2. Why did Fauxlivia have to identify these five with a secret code in a document she…

The guy who plays Doc Martin on the BBC TV show. Martin Clunes? He is the young Hitchcock

Floating around out there in the underground is a promo Lenny Bruce made to star on a TV show; probably late night. He plays it completely straight, no cursing, anti-Catholic jokes, any of the stuff that got him arrested; he sounds almost like his rival Mort Sahl. The only reason anyone cares about this thing is that…

There is a porn version with the WoO name. You can find it in the internet for money porn world. It came out 30 years ago.

Problems
1. there are no longer mental hospitals like this anywhere in the USA.
2. electric shock is used for patients who aren't responding in any way, due to depression or having learned the not there trick. Patients talking about ghosts or whatever can be talked to and therefore are amenable to drugs or other…

Forbidden Planet was based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. Makes a good comparison to Julie Taymor's latest rave-up of the play.
It was also the father of Star Trek, as you will see.

Something Else was Miles Davis' way to lead Cannonball Adderley to Blue Note where they'd treat him right. Didn't work.

For those who like or think "Blue Train" a little overrated should track down the LP Coltrane made under Sonny Clark's name exactly one month later (10/9/1957) "Sonny's Crib". Blue Note 1576. It's much better solo-wise, and has better tune selection.

This movie had a curious genesis: first it was a book "The Tourist", by Olen Steinhauer, a very good mystery story writer, who this time wrote a complex spy book in the John Le Carre manner. It was bought by George Clooney, who used none of the book for a movie with a different title. Then Johnny Depp is in a movie…

"Wilson and his crazy-assed notion of a New World Order run by a League of Nations." Actually Wilson believed in this idea but Britain and France didn't. In particular France did not want to give Vietnam its independence under League of Nation rules for colonies, and they told the guy who became Ho Chi Min to get…

It's an income tax dodge. Place to bury income from the tax man. Neil Cole has a sense of humor.

Interesting Rest
Ventimiglia will produce and star in Rest, an adaptation of a comic book he helped create (and which he served as the model for) about a guy who becomes a test subject for a drug that eliminates the need for sleep, which leads him to discover a shadowy global conspiracy during his many waking nights.
An…

Take a Deep Breath
…and listen to what he says. This is all about income taxes. Some wiseguy talked him into putting his income from his movies into a living trust to shield it from income taxes. Didn't work, the wiseguy soaked them for a bundle and the tax people attached his income to pay off all the back taxes.
What…

It drove Keaton's contemporaries nuts trying to figure out how he did the stunts. And by the way, it's the girl who solves the mystery, it isn't by chance. She solves it using common sense, the only girl in Keaton movies who had it.

What this property was, once
"The Tourist" started out as a book by Olen Steinhouser, a very intricate spy novel, which has a sequel, too. Tourists in his book are CIA agents who can do anything they want to get information, adopt any identity, they can assassinate people and so on. In the book the Tourist and the…

soap opera rules
Folks who are fans of this show should understand that it is operating under soap opera rules:
1. Time happens at 1/10 the speed
2. Women are dumb emotional creatures and men are worse
3. Rule 2 does not apply to villains who are smart enough to concoct wicked plots against the other characters but…

Where to see it
It showed in full on PBS several times and pbs.org is still a good place to tyr to get it. The pleasure for me along with the movie is trying to guess the identity of thhe musical soloist that accompany Ms. Henshaw. I seem to hear Joe Venuti on violin, Eddie Lang on guitar, Benny Goodman on…

There is a new Night Stalker. You can find it on hulu.com or maybe on SYFY or wherever on cable. It is nothing like the original, which showed how far a low-budget show could go when the spirit was right. The best of all was the first Night Stalker movie. This show was the Father of X-files, of course, if fact one…

I'll just say…
1. The Germans took European Antisemitism to the maddest, deepest level. They did everything in their power to de-humanize the Jews of the countries they invaded, make them lower than animals and kill them without mercy. It gave license to the sadists and psychos in their midst and made them leaders, to…