Bwana Devil, a 1952 film writ­ten, directed, and pro­duced by Arch Oboler, is con­sid­ered to be the first color, Amer­i­can 3-D fea­ture film. It starred Robert Stack (of “Unsolved Mys­ter­ies” fame), Bar­bara Brit­ton, and Nigel Bruce. And on top of all that it started the 3-D film boom! Some legacy, huh? Screen writer Mil­ton Gun­zburg and […]

I’ve loved “Lost”, and I’ve hated “Lost”. I swing like a pen­du­lum between these two extremes, and all because some tele­vi­sion writ­ers want to drag out some­thing that prob­a­bly only last another sea­son or two. Cur­rently I’m back to lov­ing it, but up until the sec­ond half of sea­son 3, I was hat­ing it, and […]

About 12 years ago I was work­ing at the Book­stop near the Inwood the­ater in Dal­las and it was my first real job out of col­lege. I was a super­vi­sor there, and one of the things we would do, and if you’ve been into any Barnes & Noble you’ll know this, was put out staff […]

School­house Rock, the series of 41 car­toon shorts that used catchy tunes and rep­e­ti­tion to teach kids watch­ing Sat­ur­day morn­ing car­toons about math, Amer­i­can his­tory, gram­mar and sci­ence, began as a brain­storm of David McCall when, in 1971, he noticed that his son could sing pop­u­lar song lyrics but couldn’t han­dle sim­ple mul­ti­pli­ca­tion tables. His […]

I was done with “Lost”, I was tired of it and never wanted to watch it again, and then what did Carl­ton Cuse and Damon Lin­de­lof go and do? Make me care again. You bas­tards! The peo­ple behind “Lost” must have noticed that our house­hold was get­ting tired of their lit­tle tele­vised social exper­i­ment, because out of […]