General
Mouseketeer Roll Call! Bobby! Annette! Sharon! Lonnie! Cubby! Mary Danella Espinoza…? * insert sound of record scratching here * For three seasons, The Mickey...
Hi, what are you looking for?
Mouseketeer Roll Call! Bobby! Annette! Sharon! Lonnie! Cubby! Mary Danella Espinoza…? * insert sound of record scratching here * For three seasons, The Mickey...
As the holidays overtake the sights and sounds of our culture in a seemingly endless loop, there are those aspects of it that have...
Disney does many things well, like family-friendly movies, theme parks that attract millions of people and reminding us that magic can be a real...
Considered an actor’s director, Lamont Johnson had made a smooth enough transition from acting (Tarzan, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gunsmoke) to directing. When an offer...
When Rod Serling entered a Los Angeles party in 1959, a young writer named Charles Beaumont approached him and said that Serling’s most recent...
Freedom of beliefs is a hallmark in our society, but not the freedom of facts. Facts are, by their nature, proven statements, events, outcomes,...
There’s an old saying that I’m just now making up that goes, “If you catch lightning in a bottle, empty little drops into more...
There are movies I remember watching on cable as a child that, in my mind, were epic films that held my attention for what...
Like discussions on religious beliefs or which Batman movie was best, politics is a topic better left untapped for the sake of avoiding a...
Since opening in 1969, Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion is one of its most consistently popular attractions. For comparison, it should be noted that another big...
When and if you hear the name Asta, there is a long list of things that it does not mean: American String Teachers Association...
In the summer of 1957, boys across the country were wearing their hair in styles that were indicative of the time. Some had crew...
Ask 100 people what epitomizes a turkey sandwich and you will get 100 different answers: ‘all white meat’, ‘all dark meat’, ‘smoked’, ‘broiled’, ‘with...
Some celebrity couples are over as quickly as they start, others are the stuff of legend and epitomize true love, like Bogart and Bacall....
When a television show is set in a hypothetical future, there is a large amount of creative interpretation that can go into the production...
The year was 1958. William Dozier, chief of CBS West Coast programming, watched as television’s boy wonder, Rod Serling, paced around Dozier’s office, acting...
Fun, imagination, temporarily free from cares and little to no awareness of an outside world. These are what make Disney a great product. Multi-media,...
“I was taken aback, Batman was simply not my ken. I have always been associated with loftier projects.” – William Dozier On a cross-country...
When a television show is popular, profitable, a star-maker and iconographic, the best thing to do is let it runs its course and subsequently...
March 5th marked the 30th anniversary of the death of John Belushi. For younger audiences, John Belushi was that fat guy from SNL, the...
“Her vibrant colors and stylized designs pervade Disney animated films from 1943 to 1953… Beneath her deceptively simple style, lies enormous visual sophistication and...
As the Star Wars saga begins its return to theaters in 3-D, many filmgoers and Star Wars enthusiasts can’t help be reminded of the...
Millions of filmgoers and aspiring dark lord conjurers worldwide anxiously await the release of the eighth and final Harry Potter film. While most will...
The 1993 book Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince was, at best, a borderline prosecuting attorney-style rant using hostility-fueled witnesses to paint a portrait of...