A Timely Warning

Morgenstern

Lupino

McKinley

Tarbell

Beware the Idas of March.  Those ladies - sitcom matron, noir siren, first lady, and muckraker alike - will, without question, cut a bitch.

Trailer Trash: No Pinkies?!

Three decades before Mel Brooks took on Broadway (and triumphed, at least the first time out of the gate), Rialto favorite Neil Simon decided to tread the Brooksian route with a spoof of classic Hollywood whodunits.

The result, Murder by Death, may not be a great film, but it has a peerless cast, amusing situations, some funny lines (Maggie Smith really gives her all to "Where's my Dickie?"), and the peculiar spectacle of Truman Capote trying to be a movie star. Throw in unbridled hammery from the likes of Nancy Walker, Alex Guinness, and Estelle ("Murderpoo?") Winwood, and you've got a perfectly satisfactory night out. It's not Young Frankenstein, but then again neither is it (thank God) Won Ton Ton...

A Quick Picker-Upper

Well, we failed to find a video of Nancy Walker singing "I'm Still Here," but that's no reason that we should go without a fix of that pint-sized dynamo. Here we encounter her in a non-romantic mood, in her 1959 ouevre "I Hate Men." You can hear the title song here or, if you like, review the album's full line-up.

Just the music for an Easter morning...