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Arthur Darvill as Richard Madoc Last week I was running the track at the Rec Center, and a song came on that I knew but I could not place fr...

R. Eric Thomas For Sunday, I read Crying On Television by R. Eric Thomas  and posted at New Play Exchange . Some write plays that rea...

There was a time I wanted to be an actor. During the 1990s I was even attached to a talent agency in town, and did all the requisite thin...

"Heal Thyself" Summer is here. Theater camp has concluded, my show has opened, and it is time for a little vacation with the f...

Waiting for Trevor at the Breen Center. Weeks ago, when it was first announced that The Daily Show would produce their show in Clevelan...

If he had lived, James Maury "Jim" Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) would be seventy-seven years old today. My pare...

New York at Night (1979) R. O. Blechman (born Oscar Robert Blechman, 1930) is an illustrator and animator, you probably recognize his wor...

Don't smile. People, all kinds of people, like to kvetch and moan about how much better things were in the past. Some undefined pas...

These things happen. And now a word about Mad Men . My wife and I are behind, because we must be behind, there isn't time in the ...

On any given Friday evening in early 1976, you could tune into CBS at 8:30 PM to view a brand new episode of M*A*S*H (and then switch o...

Saturday Night Live Season 3: Episode 7 December 20, 1977 "Hey, You!" Woman.....Gilda Radner [ open on woman sitting al...

They always ended the show in their PJs. Histories have been written about the preponderance of late-night movie programming that featur...

As a nine year-old growing up in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, it was stuff like that bred in me a rich vein of arch fuckery: Saturday Nigh...

From Cleveland TV Memories (1999) by Tom Feran and R.D. Heldenfels: In 1954, WJW started a five-minute news program called "Today...

The Dark, Dark Hours Starring Ronald Reagan and featuring James Dean. Broadcast Sunday December 12, 1954 CBS General Electric Theater O...

Max Ellis Santa Claus is the man. You can't touch Santa. And since no one owns him, no one can corner the market on his business. Yes, ...