DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2015
Sep
15
 
 

James Arness’s Gunsmoke marshal, Matt Dillon, made his first appearance on television in 1955. So did Hugh O’Brien’s dandified Wyatt Earp...But only one of these iconic TV characters’ chronological contemporaries is still with us and, amazingly, still getting work. That would be Kermit the Frog...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
7
 
 
Almost 40 million people saw at least part of The Civil War when Ken Burns’ multipart documentary premiered in September 1990...It’s coming back Monday, September 7, for a special anniversary encore on PBS. Two things will be different...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
21
 
 
Contrary to his atomic-fireball TV persona, the Morton Downey Jr. I knew was a pussycat. A pussycat o’nine tails sometimes, but a pussycat all the same...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
10
 
 
Liberals who have American flags (a larger contingent than our more conservative fellow citizens typically acknowledge) are likely flying them at half-mast to mark the retirement from Comedy Central of Jon Stewart...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
13
 
 
The news hit hard – and then the irony. Bob Simon, the decorated journalist and 60 Minutes mainstay, was dead, killed in an automobile crash Wednesday in New York City. Simon had survived as many war zones and hot spots in his 47-year career as any reporter alive...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jan
16
 
 
Only a couple of artists can claim a PEGOT – Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony...