by David Krell | Feb 27, 2015 | David Krell
In the 1980s, America’s three television networks changed hands. ABC to Capital Cities. NBC to General Electric. CBS to Loews. Ken Auletta documented the decade in his 1991 book Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way. It is, indeed, a fantastic...
by David Krell | Oct 9, 2013 | David Krell
In Teleliteracy is Here…So Telefriend, Chapter 14 of his 1992 book Teleliteracy, television critic David Bianculli raises the issue of television programming rivaling literature for intelligence. “Authors of written literature reveal their own enthusiasms...
by David Krell | Jun 24, 2013 | David Krell
To be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the 1950s was to realize that Brooklyn is a heritage thing, rooted firmly in the cornerstone of family. Throughout the borough, several generations of a family lived in the same neighborhood. In some cases, they lived in the same...
by David Krell | May 1, 2013 | David Krell
You must remember this: Casablanca is a classic movie. But did you know this? Casablanca had less than auspicious beginnings. Casablanca began as a play titled Everybody Comes to Rick’s written by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison in the late 1930s. Although...
