Tag: tv

Highly Animated

Every April at the Gutter, the editors write about something outside their usual domains.  This month, Romance Editor Chris Szego writes about animated movies.   When I was a kid, cartoons were a real treat. I didn’t watch much TV, but Bugs Bunny and friends were mandatory viewing. […]

Two Men Walk into a Bar

Don Draper sits at a bar next to a man reading Frank O’Hara’s Meditations in an Emergency. He asks about the book and is blown off by the man who sees him as square. Fisherprof thinks about “What Frank O’Hara Tells Us about Don Draper.”

Game of Thrones 15 Minute Preview

HBO offers a 15 minute preview of its new series Game of Thrones, based on the George R. R. Martin series. Given how long the series is so far, a 15 minute taste seems about right. And if that’s not enough, Gutter favorite Peter Dinklage talks about playing […]

Elementary

“We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.”—Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Case of Identity.” When I wrote about Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder, I wrote that […]

RIP, Jane Russell

Actress Jane Russell has died at 89.  She starred in films and television in every genre from noirs (Macao with Robert Mitchum) to musicals (Gentleman Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe) to Westerns (The Outlaw). KPBS and The New Yorker have tributes.