Blog Post Feel Good Friday: Chuck Jones on How to Silence Your Inner Critic Once upon a time, the man who gave us Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck had no idea what he was going to do when he grew up. He attended art school, but felt intimidated by older classmates who had much more experience than he did. Take a look at how Chuck Jones dealt with his fears of not measuring up:...
Blog Post The Sex and the City Finale: Go Big and Go Home Carrie has now been with Big for ten years. Ten years! Yep, it's been a full decade since Sex and the City aired its final episode, "An American Girl in Paris (Part Deux)" , on February 22, 2004. The characters we loved all had nice tie-ups for their storylines in the finale: Samantha is cancer...
Blog Post Feel Good Friday: George Burns' Final Tribute to Gracie Allen They were a hit on Vaudeville, radio, television, and film. Husband and wife team George Burns and Gracie Allen were two of comedy's finest. They were some of the earliest stars to come to television, way back in 1950 with The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show , and their straight man/ditzy gal...
Blog Post Remembering Ben Wolf We're sad to hear of the passing of cinematographer Ben Wolf , who died on Friday, November 8, 2013 at the age of 92. Wolf started his career as a cameraman on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show , The Ed Sullivan Show , Carson's Cellar , and Climax! . He also worked on classic programs The Jack...
Blog Post The Four Dark Days: Television Covers The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963. The mere mention of the date is enough for most Americans to recall the tragic events of that Friday, the day that turned out to be President John F. Kennedy's last. Many of the journalists we've interviewed for the Archive reported on the events surrounding Kennedy's death for...
Blog Post Michael Jackson's "Thriller" Still Thrills 30 years later It is largely considered to be THE best music video of all time. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" debuted to the masses 30 years ago today, on December 2, 1983. It was MTV's very first world premiere video and changed the way music videos were created. Budgets expanded, and airtime on MTV became more...
Blog Post Remembering Russell Johnson We're sad to hear of the passing of actor Russell Johnson , who died this morning of kidney failure at his home in Washington state. Johnson was 89. He was best known for playing "The Professor" on Gilligan's Island , the genius who could somehow create impressive machinery from nothing but...
Blog Post 5 Things You Didn't Know About Laraine Newman You probably know that Laraine Newman was one of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready For Primetime Players. But here are five things you may not know about Newman: 1. She studied under Marcel Marceau. After finishing high school, Newman auditioned for four acting schools in England. After...
Blog Post Remembering Ben Starr We're sad to hear that writer/producer Ben Starr passed away on Sunday, January 19, 2014 from congestive heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, California. He was 92. Starr wrote that brilliant episode of The Brady Bunch in which "Peter Brady" states in his best Bogart impression what the gang...
Blog Post Remembering Stanford Tischler We've just learned of the passing of editor Stanford Tischler , who died on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at the age of 92. Tischler began his career at RKO studios, where he served as a sound effects editor on the Frank Capra classic "It's A Wonderful Life." He got his start in television with Revue...
