by David Krell | Apr 30, 2013 | David Krell
Carl Reiner created The Dick Van Dyke Show as a parallel to his own life as a television comedy writer. Indeed, Reiner initially played the main character, Robert Petrie, in a failed television pilot. CBS rejected the pilot, Head of the Family, but aired it as part...
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...