Had ‘A Thousand Clowns’ (1965) on. The film on Turner Classic Movies stars Jason Robards (Above), Barry Gordon, Barbara Harris and Martin Balsam.

I was really hoping to actually watch ‘Ship Ahoy’ on Turner Classic Movies with Bert Lahr, Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell. Work got in the way, so listening and glances had to suffice. I sketched during one of those glances.

Working a way again with Turner Classic Movies on and along comes Red Skelton. I love his old radio shows. I join many others as a huge fan of the Mean Widdle Kid who would cause alsorts of mayhem. He would sometimes reconsider his daring deed and then charge forward anyway: “I dood it!”. That […]

While I was working I had two Glenn Ford films running on Turner Classic Movies. First it was ’3:10 to Yuma’ and then it was ‘Jubal’. I quickly did a sketch of Ford above.
I remember first drawing Ford as part of a huge crowd trying to pay their income taxes when I was about 14. It was […]

Being such a big fan of The Rat Pack, I’m very sorry to read of the death of Joey Bishop. Bishop was the last of the Pack living. I remember him oh so well guest-hosting The Tonight Show and his many appearance on television. After reading of his death I broke open a DVD set […]

I was sorry to hear of the death of another celebrity illuminary. She was great in many films. My favorite is her part in Frank Capra’s ‘Here Comes the Groom’. I love the scene of her and Crosby singing ‘In the Cool, Cool, Cool in the Evening’. One of the funnest scenes in film.

This weeks illustration is of the master of sports satire, Ring Lardner. This guy was great at the mound and could pitch a brilliant story for a home run.

 Apparently this actress has a thing for cheese, Woody Allen and some strange interest in being nude in movies. She sure seems to get a lot of attention for being, what I feel, a mediocre actress and for her looks, which are pretty average in my opinion.
Next week: Back to the humor column and Ring […]

Steve Allen is this week’s subject. I’ve drawn him in action after the next man on the street. I’m a huge fan of Allen. Not just at his lifelong pursuit of being humourous, but for also his intellectual pursuits. As much as many of his books were about comedy and satire, he also wrote of […]

Kitty Carlisle Hart passed away last week. She is best remembered for her ‘To Tell the Truth’ attendance. She was also quite the songstress and actress. I know her best for her participation in the Marx Brother’s ‘A Night at the Opera’. She fought to sing her own songs in that film and won.
Later she […]

Here’s my humorous illustration of Mr. Vonnegut. There’s a lot I could write here, but time’s got me. Suffice to write that a great deal of imagination, and with that creativity, is now lost.

This weeks subject is from the pop culture world, actress Jessica Alba. Reading about her, apparently she’s trying to achieve what I learned her colleague Jessica Simpson is trying to accomplish. Both are trying to shed the view that they are “sex kittens”.  Good luck to her. The media has other ideas and maybe the […]

 
Here is certainly one of the most humorous writers to grace the pages of many a book, a column and the like. Beyond his filmed adventures, his prose  - and the vast quantity of it - lives today on the humor shelves in many a bookstore. He has widely influenced many, including the comparable Dave Barry.
Surrounding Mr. Benchley […]