by 40926pwpadmin | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog
Since the silent era in the early years of the 20th century, Hollywood has generated a seemingly endless parade of leading men and leading ladies, many of whom have become iconic in the decades since their passing. In parallel to this procession is an even longer line...
by 40926pwpadmin | Feb 8, 2026 | Blog
No songwriter consciously sets out to write a standard. A song becomes a standard on its own over time, after it’s been recorded and re-recorded and re-interpreted by numerous artists specializing in various styles over the course of several decades or even...
by 40926pwpadmin | Jan 31, 2026 | Blog
Last summer I wrote in this space about my first encounter with vinyl LP recordings of the Superman radio program of the 1940s and early ‘50s. I was only about ten years old at the time of my discovery, but I’d already had an understanding what the golden age of radio...
by 40926pwpadmin | Jan 22, 2026 | Blog
In November of 1996, I went to a movie theater somewhere in the east suburbs of Cleveland with a few friends to see a newly released film called The English Patient, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin...
by 40926pwpadmin | Jan 12, 2026 | Blog
What happens when you take a crime-fighting detective with a decidedly gothic fashion sensibility from the pages of mainstream American comic books and filter him through the high-camp, pop-art zeitgeist of the mid 1960s? The answer is a prime-time TV phenomenon...
by 40926pwpadmin | Jan 11, 2026 | Blog
“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration. Light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it, you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.” —Jack London In my generation, Jack London seemed to be a rite of passage for junior high...
