Tag: 1990s

RIP, Ida Pollock

Author Ida Pollock has died. Writing under multiple noms de plume, Pollock published 120 books and was a founder of the Romantic Novelists Association. The Mary-Sue has an obituary. NPR talks with her daughter, Rosemary Pollock. The Telegraph has an overview of her career.

The Dandy Doctor

You may have missed the news, but this is the 50th anniversary of a cheap, scrappy British science fiction series called Doctor Who. Like a fair number of folk my age, I first stumbled across Doctor Who one Saturday afternoon on PBS, back when PBS was able to […]

RIP, Marcia Wallace

Actress Marcia Wallace has died. Marcia Wallace is probably best known for voicing Edna Krabappel in The Simpsons,  playing receptionist Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show, as Maggie Hawley in  That’s My Bush! and as Annie Wilkes on The Young And The Restless. Entertainment Weekly,  The New […]