by David Krell | May 10, 2015 | David Krell
Under William Paley, CBS became the gold standard of television programming in news and entertainment. Nicknamed the Tiffany Network, CBS fell under Paley’s patriarchy from the 1920s to 1990, when Paley died. It was Paley who gave Edward R. Murrow an outlet to...
by David Krell | Feb 9, 2015 | David Krell
The Flying Misfits was a 1976 NBC tv-movie loosely based on the World War II exploits of Marine pilot ace Greg Boyington. Stephen J. Cannell wrote the script, taking liberties with the story featuring Robert Conrad as Boyington. Based on Baa Baa Black Sheep,...
by David Krell | May 21, 2013 | David Krell
Baseball is a beautiful game, largely because it has no clock determining its end. An NFL team has 45 seconds to execute an offensive play. An NBA team, 24 seconds. But baseball has no time limit. The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training illustrated this point with...
by David Krell | Mar 12, 2013 | David Krell
King Kong is a New York City film icon. He climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in the 1933 and 2005 King Kong films. In 1976, he climbed to the top of the World Trade Center. But the 1966-67 Saturday morning cartoon series King Kong depicted the title...
by David Krell | Jun 23, 2012 | David Krell
Jim Bouton peeled back the veneer protecting Major League Baseball in his 1970 exposé, Ball Four. It reads like a friend sharing secrets with you over a couple of beers at a baseball game. Bouton, a quasi-phenom pitcher in the early 1960s with the New York Yankees, he...
