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By Jim Menick

Books & Entertainment Blog

  • Miyazaki

    Hayao Miyazaki has made some of the best motion pictures ever. They’re Japanese animations, and if your kids aren’t watching them (or you, if you’re an animation fan),…

  • George Lucas Wants to Go Back to Film School

    At least that’s how it sounds. After his experience producing Red Tails, he says he’s ready to stop working on potential blockbusters and start working on small, personal…

  • What Was Salinger Up To All Those Years?

    Was J.D.Salinger creating a new body of work after he disappeared from the literary scene in 1965?

  • John Belushi

    You can find all sorts of video of John Belushi on YouTube, and probably half the people on the interwebs will be featuring them today, on what would…

  • There She Is. Still.

    How has Miss America survived almost a hundred years?

  • There’s a Person in There!

    I’ve seen Caroll Spinney many times: he’s the guy inside the Big Bird outfit. For that matter, Spinney is also Oscar the Grouch; he’s got the universe of…

  • A Quixotic Adventure

    I’m rather taken by this. A historian named Fernando Prado is making a gallant, and from the looks of it, virtually impossible attempt to discover the remains of…

  • Ernie Kovacs

    Ernie Kovacs was born on January 23, 1919. No doubt he was smoking a cigar at the time.

    I think of Kovacs as the guy who invented television.…

  • The Disneyland Railroad

    Walt Disney was a train nut. He had worked on the railroad as a kid, selling newspapers and snacks, and as an adult, before he had Disneyland to…

  • Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

    If you wanted to, you could go to a movie about fifteen minutes after the posted start time, because before they ever get to the feature there’s all…