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Spotlight: Peter Church (2012)
August 2, 2012 You might remember Peter Church from his Spotlight last year. Here is what I wrote at the time: Meet the Renaissance Man, Peter Church… Peter has spent the last six years as a repertory...
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The Saturday Comics: My Personal Top Ten
December 8, 2012 This is my personal Top Ten Comics list. This is not a list of the best comics, most important stories, or biggest hero brawls. These comics all have some personal story or meaning for...
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Dean Martin And Jerry Lewis: Old-School And OTR
June 6, 2013 Now: Dean Martin, booze-hound member of The Rat Pack, world-famous crooner, deceased. Then: Up and coming singer performing in small clubs, still developing his style. Now: Jerry Lewis,...
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Radio Transcript of the Uncle Bosco Show, June 19th, 1946
June 19, 2013 CARNIVAL MUSIC SWELLS ANNOUNCER: Hey kids, are you ready? Then stand up and clap for THE UNLCE BOSCO SHOW! KIDS CLAPPING AND CHEERING ANNOUNCER: Yes, that’s right, it’s time for Uncle...
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The Saturday Comics: Little Orphan Annie
June 22, 2013 Before you read this, you might want to go back and read this past Sunday’s Sneak Peek of the Week for June 16th, 1943: On Monday, Lieutenant Allan Keyes will kick Mussolini while he’s...
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The Tepid Zombie: What Am Netflix Thinking? (Classic Lovecraftian Horror Repost)
July 31, 2013 A regular feature of this site was “I’ve been Netflixed!” I’d look at Netflix recommendations and try to figure out how the heck they were relevant to the movie I had watched. For...
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Superman. A Historical Perpective.
This is a short piece I put up on my favorite Old Time Radio forum, Relic Radio. September 10, 2013 Many people here comment on what they learned about society from the OTR era through radio shows....
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The Saturday Comics: The Shadow (Mysterious Repost)
from June 4, 2011 Who Knows What Evil Lurks In the Hearts Of Men? The Shadow Knows! I refer, of course, to perhaps the most famous show OTR ever produced. So who was The Shadow? “Years ago in the...
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My Review of Fibber McGee and Molly
July 17, 2014 Fibber McGee and Molly is an Old Time Radio show, meaning that no one under the age of 50 has heard of it. Well, that’s not entirely true. OTR has a thriving sub-culture of radio show...
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I Predicted This: How Hollywood Russell Predated The New Stonehenge Discovery
September 29, 2014 Did you see this headline last week? This story made news around the world. Turns out the Stonehenge is really huge, much bigger than we thought. Basically, researchers had been...
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This Is The Next Big Thing!
February 17, 2015 You know, breaking into Hollywood isn’t as easy as it looks. I had a great idea for a movie, the sci-fi family epic Hamsterus! Well that didn’t get me a deal with Spielberg. I have no...
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Picture Postcard: Lou Costello Memorial, Paterson NJ
March 30, 2015 Abbott and Costello are some of my favorite comedians, and growing up I devoured their films and, when I could find it, their TV show. Later I became a fan of their radio show, and I can...
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Hollywood Russell and The Case of Dead Air in Studio Two
September 25, 2015 We’ve got something a little different for you tonight. Please read the addendum at the bottom, and enjoy! The radio studio was pitch black. The only window didn’t look out on the...
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September 27, 2017 About a month ago I left Facebook. It was getting annoying. There were constant fights and disagreements. And I don’t mean over politics. An argument started in a thread where one...
View ArticleSneak Peek! Philo Vance Double Feature!
February 18, 2019 Coming soon, my reviews of a pair of mystery novels featuring S.S. Van Dine’s master detective, Philo Vance! Philo Vance gets mixed up in murder with the zany radio star, Gracie...
View ArticleMy Philo Vance Mystery Review, Part 1
February 24, 2019 I’ve been reading mystery novels from the 1930’s and 40’s lately, Most of them were popular in their day, written by best-selling authors, but time has passed most of them by....
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