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California Scheming

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – This was a quite ambitious movie for its time, bringing together many of the most famous comic actors of the time. Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney, Phil … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cartoons, Celebrities, Humor, Muppets, Sesame Street, Stan Freberg, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged bart simpson, beetlejuice, bert and ernie, buddy hackett, curly joe derita, dick shawn, follow that bird, homer the vigilante, it's a mad mad mad mad world, jim backus, joe besser, jonathan winters, matt groening, mickey rooney, milton berle, phil silvers, sid caesar, spencer tracy, terry-thomas, the producers, the three stooges |

Shirley Is in Her Holy Temple

I don’t know how seriously Shirley Temple was considered for the role of Dorothy in the 1939 Wizard of Oz, but I do seem to recall reading that she was actually familiar with the Oz books. Many years later, she … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Fairy Tales, Oz, Television | Tagged agnes moorhead, arthur treacher, jack pumpkinhead, jonathan winters, mel blanc, mombi, ozma, sawhorse, scarecrow, shirley temple, shirley temple's storybook, sterling holloway, the marvelous land of oz, the reluctant dragon, tin woodman |

Jam Tomorrow, Jam Yesterday, But Never, Ever Jam Today

Lewis Carroll’s Alice books have been adapted for stage and screen many times. What stands out about the 1985 made-for-television version is that it’s full of celebrities, but many of them were past their prime by the eighties. I remembered … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Celebrities, Lewis Carroll, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, carol channing, george gobel, humpty dumpty, jabberwocky, jonathan winters, karl malden, ringo starr, sammy davis jr, through the looking-glass, white queen |