Monster Mush: Lyle & Erik Return to TV
* ½ out of **** At this point, what on earth can you say about Ryan Murphy? His output includes some of the worst television I’ve ever...
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Aug 163 min read
TV Review- HITLER AND THE NAZIS: EVIL ON TRIAL
NOTE: Unfortunately, I was unable to make the deadline last Friday due to illness. To catch up, another blog post will appear tomorrow at...
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Jun 284 min read
On Political Theatre
In this year where everyone is on their tiptoes awaiting one form of political turmoil or another, my thoughts have been drifting toward...
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May 315 min read
Some Favorite SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Sketches
Saturday Night Live (pr. n.): a live show in which most of the funniest sketches are pre-recorded. On the late Norm Macdonald’s Netflix...
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Apr 267 min read
Jefferson & Hemings
I was perhaps in my junior year of high school when the news broke that, after many years of speculation and debate, Thomas Jefferson,...
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Apr 127 min read
Christopher Durang (1949-2024)
Christopher Durang was a playwright and actor from Montclair, New Jersey. He wrote the plays Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony...
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Mar 294 min read
The Outreau Case and Mass Hysteria: A Review/Essay
**** out of **** Normally, Netflix releases true crime docuseries. But its newest docuseries is not about a crime. Oh, there’s a trial....
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Jan 267 min read
The Greatest Youtube Video Ever (No, Really)
I recently completed watching two of what have been called the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos and The Wire. The...
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Dec 22, 20234 min read
Underrated Christmas Specials, pt. 4: TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW, GREAT JOB! CHRIMBUS SPECIAL
So, for the past three weeks, I’ve chosen heartwarming, fun Christmas fare. Offbeat perhaps, but traditional. Now. It’s time for the dam...
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Dec 15, 20233 min read
Underrated Christmas Specials, pt. 3: MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL
While I will stipulate that the story of Christ’s birth is perhaps the Greatest Story Ever Told, I maintain that Charles Dickens’ A...
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Dec 8, 20234 min read
Underrated Christmas Specials, pt. 2: WILL VINTON'S CLAYMATION CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
Premiering with A Garfield Christmas Special in 1987, Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration is another underrated gem of a...
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Dec 1, 20235 min read
Underrated Christmas Specials, pt. 1: A GARFIELD CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Welcome to the holiday season. In my lifetime, Christmas has gone from something you might start celebrating the day after Thanksgiving...
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Nov 17, 20233 min read
Top 10 SOUTH PARK Episodes
This article originally appeared on an earlier blog and was included in the collection Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It):...
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Nov 3, 20235 min read
Hated Math, Loved MATHNET
I have always hated Thursdays. I consider them insufferable twenty-four periods you have to wade through to get to Friday and the start...
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Aug 4, 20234 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 3
To appropriate a quote from Tennessee Williams, “Sometimes—there’s Godot—so quickly!” But also, sometimes, life just happens, and you...
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Jun 9, 20238 min read
On Profanity
I was a prude. I really was. Well, perhaps prude is the wrong word. But I remember in sixth grade, one of our fellow classmates telling...
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Apr 7, 20237 min read
Reckoning with Jim Carrey (Finally)
In 1994, I took a pad and pen with me to the movies. I was ten or so and I wanted to keep notes and “review” them, just like Siskel &...
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Mar 10, 20234 min read
My Favorite Alice in Wonderland
I remember reading Neal Gabler’s Walt Disney. A magnificent book, supposedly the first to tell of the man’s warts as well as his...
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Mar 3, 20239 min read
Sondheim on Film
Stephen Sondheim was taken from us in late 2021, but since his posthumous cameo in Glass Onion, the wildly uneven follow-up to Knives...
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Feb 10, 20238 min read
Anatomies of Influence 2: The Critic
We were in a critical writing class at Bennington College, circa 2003, and a student was reading a paper that celebrated the then...
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