by David Krell | Oct 23, 2015 | David Krell
Humor, it is often said, serves us best when it is grounded in reality. The Dick Van Dyke Show espoused this theorem. Carl Reiner, formerly a writer and performer on Your Show of Shows and Caesar’s Hour, starring television comedy pioneer Sid Caesar, created a...
by David Krell | May 24, 2015 | David Krell
Take a sweet, innocent, and wide-eyed young woman from the Midwest and put her in an encounter with three men. One is fairly wooden, showing emotions rarely. One does not have much in the way of intelligence, common sense, or decorum. One growls a lot, but is...
by David Krell | Jun 22, 2013 | David Krell
Earlier this week, the world lost an icon of television. And New Jersey lost one of its own. James Gandolfini died from a heart attack during a trip to Italy. His portrayal of Tony Soprano, indelible in our memories, changed television. After The Sopranos debuted in...
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...
