by David Krell | Jun 18, 2015 | David Krell
Prime time television offers a plethora of advertising agencies. Bewitched boasts McMahon & Tate with Darrin Stephens, a good-natured, smart, creative advertising executive with a wife who’s a bit bewitching. Some sources use McMann as the spelling of the...
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 | 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 | 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...