Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
by Martin Grams Jr. In 1936, three years after The Lone Ranger made his debut on radio, the publishing company of Grosset & Dunlap contracted with George W. Trendle to produce a series of books based on characters of The Lone Ranger and Tonto. It can be assumed that the books sold very well because [...]
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by Martin Grams, Jr. The year was 1951. Rod Serling wrote a radio script titled “The Button Pushers,” a futuristic science fiction drama set in a future Earth, 1970. Huge television screens substituted for advertising billboards in Times Square, air-way rocket trains carried commuters overhead, and the fear of rival nations separated by a large [...]
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Movie Review by Martin Grams, Jr. Remember the good old days, when movies were glorious, magical and mute? When you didn’t visit a 24 screen megaplex but a movie palace? Neither do I. But the passing of the silent era from memory into myth is what makes this movie worth watching. Filmed in black and [...]
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A Book Review by Bruce Dettman. For a very short period in the early 1950s Fess Parker was the most famous, the most talked about and the most easily recognized actor in America. His meteoric rise to fame really had no rival. One day he was just a young struggling actor trying to make ends [...]
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Rare in-depth exhibition includes first published fiction story by Tennessee Williams; first print appearances of Buck Rogers and Conan the Barbarian! (New item from New York) February 1, 2012 – Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University’s Lubin House in New York City presents Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine and Contemporary Culture. Orange Pulp, an exhibition rare [...]
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by Gail McIntyre. The untimely passing of Peter Graves on March 14, 2010 brought back those early childhood memories when local TV stations in New York brought forth the finest in syndicated children’s television. Weeknights around 7pm on WPIX-TV, you could relax after a rough day at 2nd grade to the site of a majestic [...]
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By Martin Grams, Jr. When Swedish film director Mauritz Stiller was brought to the United States by MGM, he insisted on bringing along his protégé, the young Greta Garbo. In the 1926 film Torrent, the 19-year-old Garbo dazzled audiences with her beauty and complex emotions. Her films with silent screen star John Gilbert (and their [...]
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by Gail McIntyre. For an actor it was a terrible way to go; the perpetual villain, the forever superhero, the eternal comedian, the tired out sidekick. If you contracted the disease there was usually no cure. Actors would pull out all the stops to insure that they were not infected with the typecasting virus. We [...]
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