DISQUS

Whenever a non-white actor appears in any Hollywood movie made before 1940, I cringe in anticipation of the racist hijinks in store.
But every so often, there is a little surprise --
I'm putting Something to Sing About on my wish list.

Oh, it gets much worse. The British equivalent of the RIAA is suing a chain of garages in Scotland for letting employees listen to the radio at work. They want royalties plus damages.

I used to love IAWL, but during the 1980s, when the film was in copyright limbo and Ted Turner was on the prowl for cheap programming content, TBS ran it into the ground and I grew sick of it.
I think I'll be ready to enjoy it again in 2015. Eggnog at my house!

I'm gonna ask Peggy to that Hitchcock double feature.

I love Rick Derringer's slide guitar on "Show Biz Kids." Snarling and abrasive, it's the perfect complement to Fagen's contemptuous put-down of a vocal.

Don, Don -- you ran away from your family, created a new identity, fought in the war, made it to the top of the advertising game, you have a beautiful wife and an artsy mistress who wears black underwear --
How did you become such a boring stick-in-the-mud?
Maybe one of the other Mad Men will turn out to be with the CIA and dose Don's scotch with LSD...but that's probably hoping for too much.

Funny what kids focus on.

Your daughter may enjoy the Out of the Inkwell cartoons, too.

For the past few days I've been wondering what the 1959 analog to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" could be.
"We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn is the best I came up with, though it was already (already?) used at the end of Dr. Strangelove in 1964.
Any better ideas?