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New for February, 2012!

Vance Brescia, guitarist and musical director for Herman's Hermits Starring Peter Noone has been sidelined with a knee injury. We wish Vance a speedy recovery to he can return to join the band in Peter Noone's 2012 Whirled Tour. In the meantime, you can get a greater idea of Vance's amazing talent with his CD entitled, "Here Goes Something". Wyman Stewart's review of his CD is available at The Music Muse Interview.

Vance Brescia

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Before cable TV, streaming video and yes even before television, our grandparents gathered in front of the radio to catch their favorite shows, many of which endured to be recreated in film and on television later on. A retrospective of the history of old time radio is reviewed by Bruce Dettman in Radio by the Book; Adaptations of Literature and Fiction on the Airwaves by Tim Deforest.

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If you are a fan of that masked vigilante with passion for the color green you won't want to miss reading The Green Hornet by Martin Grams & Terry Salomonson and the book review by none other than Bruce Dettman!

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Mystery movie series' were a staple of American cinematic entertainment in the 1940's from Charlie Chan to Philip Marlowe to the Thin Man. A retrospective of the mystery movie genre of that period is now available in the book "Mystery Movies Series of 1940's Hollywood by Ron Backer and reviewed by Bruce Dettman!

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As comedy teams went, one can only feel that the 3 stooges never got any respect; at least from the Hollywood community. Does Jon Solomon's book "The Complete Three Stooges" make up for that? Read Bruce Dettman's review and you'll be saying, "Why Sointinly!"

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One of the more important genres in classic movies and television is the Western with its well defined Heroes and Villains.

A real life villain's portrayal in over 40 movies is analyzed in Jesse James and the Movies written by Johnny D. Boggs.

On the "good guy" side is a book highlighting an actor who brought us two of television's most beloved western Heroes, Fess Parker: TV's Frontier Hero, written by Bill Chemerka.