With Sesame Street turning 40 this year, the Muppets seem to be everywhere. I never watched Sesame Street, as I already knew how to count when the landmark series premiered, but everyone is aware of its existence. The show introduced the world to Jim...

Here are a couple of people who only showed up on my radar after their recent deaths: Alice McGrath 1917-2009 She was only 24, and ill with pleurisy, when defense attorney George Shibley knocked on her door in 1942. He was beginning a trial which...

This past weekend, I popped into two of the major DC hotspots to catch their current offerings, each of which examines one of the deadly sins. Ben Johnson's favorite sin was avarice; his stories are populated with characters whose greed makes them...

This week's Dance Party clip comes from a film which is a sentimental favorite of mine. Don't ask me why, I can't really explain it. Back in the 1960s, Walt Disney attempted to resurrect the long-dead studio system by putting two young triple-threats...

The star of this week's Dance Party was well-known in musical theatre circles, but the public at large would be hard-pressed to pick her out of a line-up. Dorothy Loudon spent her career onstage, with only two film appearances ( Garbo Talks and...