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“Like father, like son…? Think about it.”

Ah, for the days of the Public Service Announcement (PSA)… I recall that our local independent station used to run some of them so frequently that must have ingrained themselves on my DNA. Along with “Popeye Meets Sindbad the Sailor”, of course.
PSAs weren’t always the most clever or technically perfect spots that you’d see [...]

100,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong…

…and that’s the number of copies that the LiveFeed-restored DVD Project (“Elvis Presley – The Ed Sullivan Shows” has sold in its first 3 months of release. Hooray for our side!!
That little news-nugget is contained in an interesting article from today’s “New York Times”. You can read the full article here:
The New York [...]

The **other** Monty Hall Probability Conundrum…

Monty Hall is without a doubt one of the greatest talkers of our time. You don’t have to go any farther than to watch a few of the over 4,700 “Let’s Make a Deal” shows that he’s hosted to know that. While some fans of classic TV rightfully point out that the talk [...]

A bittersweet “Cinderella” story… for now.

In the “good news / bad news” category comes this notable find: we’ve recently unearthed a complete ILR (in-line recording) of the audio portion of the original 1957 live broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella”, starring Julie Andrews and Jon Cypher!
As I’m sure no one reading has to be told, this broadcast was watched [...]