by David Krell | Feb 11, 2015 | David Krell
America pervades television program titles. Indeed, examples are plentiful. America’s Next Top Model, America’s Most Wanted, American Chopper, American Inventor, American Masters, American Hot Rod, American Justice, America’s Got Talent, American...
by David Krell | Jan 6, 2014 | David Krell
Welcome Back, Kotter meets the fish-out-of-water theme. That’s The White Shadow. An NBA journeyman player has a career-ending knee injury, then takes a job as a basketball coach at an inner-city Los Angeles high school where he unwillingly, sometimes...
by David Krell | Jan 3, 2014 | David Krell
Based on the eponymous play, Inherit the Wind showcases the Scopes Monkey Trial. This 1960 film stars Spencer Tracy and Fredric March as the fictional counterparts to Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, respectively. In the legal thriller Jagged Edge (1986),...
by David Krell | Oct 2, 2013 | David Krell
Media historians will likely document the 1980s as the Decade of the Peacock. As television approached its 40th anniversary since Milton Berle launched the medium into mass status in 1948 with Texaco Star Theatre, NBC’s avian emblem emerged like a phoenix,...
by David Krell | Sep 24, 2013 | David Krell
After CBS canceled Petticoat Junction in 1970, the Hoyt Hotel took the Emma Sweeny for permanent display. Its tenure in Portland was short-lived, however. The Hoyt Hotel went bankrupt in 1972, prompting a sale to businessman Sam Gordon. Gordon used the Emma Sweeny...
