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Robert Young Remains a Better Person (and Better TV Dad) than Bill Cosby
In TV History, there were two long-running sitcoms that presented an idealized version of the American family. Â One show aired during the Golden Age of Television of the 1950s. Â While it has continued...
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Taking Bruce Broughton's side in the "Alone Yet Not Alone" Song Nomination...
Undoubtedly my favorite entertainment news story of the week is the rescission of the Academy Award ® song nomination for the independently produced, Christian-themed movie "Alone, Yet Not Alone"...
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Christina Pickles & Priscilla Barnes Teach a "Class" Worth Attending
Last week, a good friend suggested I watch them in an episode of a web series they worked on called "Break a Hip."Â The series focuses on the burgeoning friendship between a young, aspiring actor...
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The Unresolved Love Between Marshal Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty Russell on...
In order to understand how television has changed through the years, one would have to consider the on-screen relationship between Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) and saloon owner Miss Kitty Russell...
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Cristina Raines and Yaphet Kotto are "Prisoners" on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
In the mid-1980s, one of my favorite hours of television was the back-to-back half-hour anthologies that NBC offered for the 1985-86 season. On Sunday at 8:00 PM, we were treated to an episode of...
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Universal Appeal: An Interview with actress Ana Alicia
By the late-1970s, the classic era of the traditional Hollywood studio system had virtually ceased to exist. Almost all of the major studios no longer had a roster of actors under contract that they...
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Lesley Ann Warren, Sandra Dee, and Karen Valentine are "The Daughters of...
Lesley Ann Warren, Sandra Dee, and Karen Valentine are three actresses whose names you would never expect to see in a sentence, much less appear in the same film together. But appear together they do...
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Please Don't Bring Back Audrey Raines!
Before I became disillusioned with it for being a lazy and pretentious show, I was as big a "24" fan as there ever was. Having been a fan of the 1980s prime time soaps, I eagerly welcomed another...
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"There's No One Left to Fly the Plane!"
Karen Black's passing this week of cancer at the age of 74 has brought back a flood of memories of how following her career, and watching her movies, greatly expanded my knowledge of cinema and...
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Two and a Half Bond Girls on "The Fall Guy"
In 1984, in the wake of the dueling James Bond movies that were released the previous year--the official Cubby Broccoli produced Bond film "Octopussy" (1983) starring Roger Moore and the unofficial...
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Welcome Back, Arsenio Hall
A few months ago, a married couple who are good friends invited me over for dinner with their family. We had a great time laughing and socializing and they both told me that they enjoyed having me...
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Holly Harwood's Memorably Graceful Exit from "Dallas"
A few months ago I commented on the wrong way to write a character out of a TV show, but now I want to comment on the appropriate way to close out a character that had made a strong impact and...
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Joanna Pettet lays down the Law on "Knots Landing"
The depiction of law enforcement on most 1980s prime time soaps are usually perfunctory characterizations with professional, workman-like actors brought in as plot devices to help expedite the...
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Concurrent Love Squares on "Dallas" and "Flamingo Road"
It's not unusual when a hit television series inspires a host of imitators containing elements that are similar to the show that preceded it. What is unusual is when the original hit show starts to...
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Bo Derek Outshines Morgan Fairchild and Redeems "Fashion House"
A couple of years ago, during my last year of law school, I started noticing advertisements for a newly launched network called MyNetworkTV, which was comprised of former affiliates of the WB and UPN...
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Mark Harmon and Jo Ann Pflug Learn About Life While Patrolling in "Adam-12"
Growing up as a kid, "Adam-12" was one of my favorite TV shows. It ran almost concurrently with my childhood years being raised in a Los Angeles that still had remnants of its past glories as it was...
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Positive Memories and Impressions of Jacqueline Bisset
I was dismayed to see all the negative comments and ridicule directed at Jacqueline Bisset ever since she gave her admittedly unfocused, slightly profane, and eccentric acceptance speech at Sunday's...
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Lisa Lu: An Authentically Asian Actress
While I was growing up, I used to be intrigued by Nancy Kwan and France Nuyen because, being an American of Chinese descent, I thought that it was cool that two Asian actresses during the 1960s, a...
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Taking Bruce Broughton's side in the "Alone Yet Not Alone" Song Nomination...
Undoubtedly my favorite entertainment news story of the week is the rescission of the Academy Award ® song nomination for the independently produced, Christian-themed movie "Alone, Yet Not Alone"...
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I Still Pick Ginger
I've been on the losing side of a popular culture question for the last 20 or so years (and I don't care). Whenever people ask "Ginger or Mary Ann," in terms of who they prefer from the 1960s sitcom...
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