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The original incarnation of the game show What's My Line? was on TV from 1950 and 1967. Many of those episodes are on YouTube and they get an awful lot of hits, especially (I suspect) from folks who just want to watch the Mystery Guest spots. A lot of the episodes are missing but every now and then, one turns up. The one for July 23, 1967 recently surfaced and I've d...

It is unlikely I will ever see a show at the historic Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. It is, after all, 3,057 miles from me — and yes, I figured that out with Google Maps. But I always hear great things about the productions they put on there. It's a respected venue and it is an Equity House, meaning that all the shows that grace its stage are done under the appropriate contract...

It has been my joy/privilege/honor (all of these) to know several people who were deserving of the oft-overapplied term of "genius." One of those was Stan Freberg, who was born one hundred years ago today and who left us in April of 2015 at the age of 88.

I first discovered his work via Soupy Sales' TV shows when Soupy would fill four minutes by having his pupp...

Here's another installment — a pretty long one — of Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live. This one covers Season 28, a season when I don't think I watched the show once. I guess I was waiting for someone to say, "Hey, you oughta watch the show" — or even "watch this sketch" — and nobody did.

Maybe that was a failing of my circle of friends but...

Every so often, I come across a gizmo that improves my life a smidgen…but enough that I'm glad I spent the money on it. So let me tell you about the Dorobeen Rechargeable Battery Powered Fan, 20000 mAh Personal Desk Fan, Portable USB Table Fan, Quiet Desk Fan, Long Working Time, Desktop Fan for Study, Bedroom, Office, Camping. That's what they call it on Amaz...