by David Krell | Mar 6, 2013 | David Krell
Jack Benny was an icon of 20th century comedy. With an eponymous radio show and television show, he dominated comedy from the 1930s through the 1970s. Benny added to his credits with television specials. Jack Benny’s New Look premiered on NBC on December 3,...
by David Krell | Feb 27, 2013 | David Krell
When Batman debuted on television in January 1966, it made a brief but noticeable mark on the television programming landscape. Batman showcased Adam West as the title character and his alter ego, Bruce Wayne, residing in stately Wayne Manor along with Wayne’s...
by David Krell | Jun 27, 2012 | David Krell
You Tube is more than an Internet warehouse of wacky home videos featuring a drugged seven year-old boy wondering if he is existing in real-life after a dental procedure, a one year-old biting a finger of his three year-old brother with the older brother giving a...
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...
by David Krell | Jun 16, 2012 | David Krell
The bar for awesome just got higher. By a few hundred miles. Nik Wallenda crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope last night. ABC broadcast the event as a prime time special, a logical outlet given the network has daredevil events in its DNA. In the 1970s, Evel Knievel...
