I’ve always enjoyed Madge Blake on the Batman TV series. She gave fine performances as the naïve but kindly Aunt Harriet. Considering the...

Let’s get the phrase out of the way right now. Teen idol. You’ll see those words on any story dealing with one of 16 Magazine’s greatest ...

Bob McKimson’s early Bugs Bunny cartoons as a director baffle me. There’s potentially good animation that’s lost in the odd staging. Whethe...

“The worst thing about these nosy people is, they’re always interferin’ with somebody’s love-life,” says the voice of The Cat That Hated Peo...

Yes, we're back. But only for a week. Music expert Daniel Goldmark sent me some information quite a number of months ago. I thought I h...

This concludes our regular posts on Tralfaz. 15 obituaries are banked and will appear at the proper time. We didn't expect to resum...

Have you heard the one about Jack Benny showing up in a church in Moose Jaw? No, this isn’t a joke. It actually happened. Well, we should ...

Animated cartoons on prime time television? You can go back to the early 1930s to find them. In the late 1940s, as television expanded bey...

Tom is sleeping and minding his own business for the first 4½ minutes of The Little Orphan (1949 general release). Then, thanks to Jerry an...