Hallmark’s A Kismet Christmas

Are you addicted to Hallmark Christmas movies? Tonight, Marilu Henner returns in "A Kismet Christmas" (above right). Always a delight to see her on screen. We talk about the movie, growing up Chicago, her astonishing memory, and more - right here in yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times.

Oscillating Green/Red Christmas Chemical Reaction

This is how chemists celebrate Christmas... with an oscillating green/red chemical reaction. See the video just posted here.

A Christmas Carol

Coming up on TCM once again this Christmas season on Dec 18, broadcast of the 1938 version of “A Christmas Carol.” Lockharts everywhere, righthere.

Little Peggy March ...

... with that big hit from the 60s, "I Will Follow Him." Haven't heard it in a while? Don't listen or you'll be humming that damn catchy chorus all day. Peggy re-recorded it on the 50th anniversary in 2013, and she sounded even better than she did back in 1963. Check out her reworked version here and our recent interview right here.

Remembering Robert Clary

You’ve got to admire the imagination of sitcom writers from the 60s: Hollywood Hillbillies, talking horses, airborne nuns, and witches with twitches. So who would question setting a comedy in a German POW camp? Not CBS, who had an enormously popular success with “Hogan’s Heroes” when it aired in 1965.

What a remarkable story the last surviving main cast member Robert Clary had from nazi concentration camps to Hogan's Heroes. Based on our 2016 interview.