what’s on Captain America’s catch-up list… and what *should* be on it?
If you could add one thing to Steve’s list that he absolutely must catch up with in order to be considered a with-it 2010s kind of guy, what would it be?
I Love Lucy
question of the day: Who should play Higgs Boson in the movie?
I see Jeremy Renner as Higgs in an action drama about an elusive man on the run from pursuers who simply will not rest: perhaps they cannot rest, because they’re cyborgs…
watch it: 1950s Shaeffer pen commercial
These kids today, with their sharkskin jackets and their snorkle pens… That’s Vivian Vance, from I Love Lucy. Who else would you trust to sell you snorkle pens?
Television Under the Swastika (review)
The Nazi Channel When you think “early television,” you think Ernie Kovacs and The Twilight Zone and Edward R. Murrow and I Love Lucy and quiz scandals and Rockefeller Center and the NBC peacock and doctors endorsing cigarettes. Turns out, though, that the 1950s were not the beginning of TV as a mass medium: that … more…
