Archive for the 'Children's Shows' Category
The Late Eartha Kitt Returns as a Comic Book She-ro
• February 6, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, Black Expatriates, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Eartha Kitt, Education, Love, People of Color, Race, Television, Women
Tags: "Batman", "Family Guy", Adam West, Bluewater Production, Catsuit, Catwoman, Comic Books, Comics, ComiXology, Dirk Benedict, Eartha Kitt, Emperor's New School, Julie Newmar, Marc B. Shapiro, New York Times, Orson Welles, Pop Culture, The Sixties, Yzma
Kevin Clash: Making Sense of a Tragedy
• November 24, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American Politics, Arts, Black Nerds, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Consumerism, Crime, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Facebook, Film, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Being Elmo", "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey", "My Life as a Furry Red Monster", "Sesame Street", African Americans, Andrew Vachss, Big Bird, Bishop Eddie Long, Blacks, Cecil Singleton, Child Abuse, Children, Common Sense, Elmo, Facebook, Grooming, Growing Up, Homosexuality, Homosexuals, Jerry Sandusky, Jim Henson, Katherine Franke, Kevin, Kevin Clash, LGBT, Love, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Marriage, Michael Jackson, Mitt Romney, PBS, Puppetry, Rape, Sesame Workshop, Sex, Shannon Clash, Sheldon Stephens, The Closet, The Muppets, The New York Times, TMZ.com, United States
Christmas Songs: “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” from “How The Grinch Stole Christmas!” Thurl Ravenscroft, 1966
• December 10, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Children's Shows, Cultural History, Film, Holidays, Television
Tags: Boris Karloff, Cartoons, Christmas, Chuck Jones, Chuck Jones Productions, Cindy Lou Who, Film, Frosted Flakes, Golden Age of Warner Bros. Cartoons, Grinch, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, June Foray, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Seuss, Singers, The Whos, Thurl Ravenscroft, Tony The Tiger, Voice Actors, WB Television Network, Whoville
“Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” Strikes Again: Yo Gabba Gabba Stars Do “We’re Gonna Party Today!” with Some Help from DJ Lance Rock, Bootsy Collins, Biz Markie and The Roots
• October 11, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Art, Black People, Bootsy and Catfish Collins, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Education, Late Night TV, Love, Music, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Music is Awesome Vol. 3", "Pillow Talk", African Americans, Biz Markie, Black Women, Bootsy Collins, Brobee, Children, Children's Songs, Children's Television, Children's TV, Christian Jacobs, DJ Lance Rock, Elijah Wood, Erykah Badu, Foofa, Growing Up, Jimmy Fallon, Lance Robertson, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Mark Mothersbaugh, Muno, Nick, Nick Jr., Nickelodeon, Plex, Scott Schultz, Soul, Sugar Hill Records, Sugarhill Gang, Sylvia, Sylvia Robinson, The Seventies, Ting Tings, Toodee, William "Bootsy" Collins, Yo Gabba Gabba
Comic Actor Kenneth Mars, 75, Dies; Played in “Young Frankenstein,” “The Producers” and “What’s Up, Doc?”
• February 18, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Arts, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Film, Television, Television Series
Tags: "The Producers", "What's Up Doc", "Young Frankenstein", Adolf Hitler, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Character Actor, Franz Liebkind, Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp, Hugh Simon, Kenneth Mars, Mel Brooks, Smile Train, Will Ferrell, Woody Allen
New Year’s Songs: George Winston, “The Snowman, Walking in the Air”
• December 31, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Books, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Film, George Winston, Holidays, Memoir, Music, Spirituality
Tags: "The Snowman", "Walking in the Air", CDs, Children, Christmas, Compact Disc, Father Christmas, Flying, George Winston, Imagination, New Year, New Year's Day, New Years Eve, Palo Alto CA, Plowshare Books, Royal Pavilion, Santa Claus, Snowman, Snowmen, The Eighties, The Seventies, Windham Hill, Windham Hill Records
Christmas Songs: “Christmas Time Is Here,” from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”
• December 21, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Education, Film, Holidays, Love, Music, Public Intellectualism, Spirituality, Television
Tags: "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", A Charlie Brown Christmas, Burl Ives, Charlie Brown, Children, Christmas, Christmas Songs, Growing Up, Lee Mendelson, Linus, Linus and Lucy, Linus and Lucy Van Pelt, Linus Van Pelt, Love, Peanuts, Popular Culture, San Francisco, Skating Rink, The Sixties, Vince Guaraldi, Winter
The Story Behind The ‘I Love My Hair’ Sesame Street Video
• October 19, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Africans, American History, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Education, Love, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "I Love My Hair", "I Whip My Hair", "Sesame Street", "The Bluest Eye", "The Spook Show", ABC News, African American, Angelina Jolie, Anything Muppet, Barbie Dolls, Biracial, Biracial Children, Biracials, Black Muppet Girl, Black Women, Blacks, Blonde, Blue Contact Lenses, Children, Culture, Deep, Girls of Color, Growing Up, Joey Mazzarino, Latinas, Latinos, Love, Mash-up, NBC News, Racism, Segi Mazzarino, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Straight, Television, The Media, Toni Morrison, Towel, Viral, W, Whoopi Goldberg, Willow Smith, Women of Color, Zahara Jolie-Pitt
‘I Love My Hair’ from PBS’ Sesame Street (w/Update)
• October 17, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Black People, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Education, Love, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Television, Wisconsin, Women
Tags: "I Love My Hair", "Sesame Street", African Americans, Articles and Interviews, Arts, Beauty, Beauty Standards, Biracial Children, Biracials, Black Hair, Black Women, Blacks, Chantylla "Chauncey" Johnson, Chantylla Johnson, Children, Children's, Chris Rock, Color Purple, Growing Up, Hair, Katy Perry, Love, Madison WI, Muppet, Muppet Wiki, Nappy Hair, People of Color, Programs, Racism, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Singer, Television, The Color Purple, Weaves, Wigs
The Beaver’s Mom, Barbara Billingsley, Dies at 94
• October 16, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, American History, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Fashion, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Airplane", "Leave It to Beaver", "Ward, Barbara Billingsley, Eddie Haskell, Embarrassment, Fred Rutherford, Hollywood, Hugh Beaumont, I'm Worried About the Beaver", I. Magnin, I. Magnin's, Jerry Mathers, Jive, June Cleaver, Los Angeles Times, Lumpy, Memoir, Middle Class White America, Mom, Mother, Pearls, Pre-Feminism, San Francisco, Santa Monica California, Shame, Sherman Billingsley, Suburbia, The Beaver, The Fifties, The Middle Class, The Stork Club, Theodore Cleaver, Tony Dow, United States, Wally Cleaver, Ward Cleaver, White American Boyhood, White Suburbia, Wikipedia
Only One Black Emmy Winner This Year; But Archie Panjabi Won
• August 30, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Comedy, Commercials, Cultural History, Drama, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, Late Night TV, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Reality Shows, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "Bend It Like Beckham", "Inspector Lewis", "The Good Wife", Acting, Actress, African Americans, Americans, Andre Braugher, Archana Kaur Panjabi, Archie Panjabi, Blacks, British, Britons, Camera Operator, CBS, Columbia, Daniel Craig, Hector Elizondo, Hector Ramirez, Inclusiveness, Isaiah Mustafa, James Bond, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Smits, Latinos, NBC, Old Spice, People of Color, Person of Color, Record Nominations, Ricky Gervais, Sikh, Sofia Vergara, The Emmys, Wanda Sykes
Peter Fernandez, the English Voice of the Original Speed Racer and His Brother Racer X, Passes
• July 15, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Anime Cartoons, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Fiction Writing, Film, Japan, Memoir, Sports, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Astro Boy", "City Across the River", "Courage the Cowardly Dog", "Mr. District Attorney", "Speed Racer", Actor, Anime, Broadway, Cartoon, Channel 44, Children, Chim-Chim, Corinne Orr, Director, Drama, Growing Up, Hollywood, Japan, Japanese, KBHK TV, NBC, Peter Fernandez, Pops Racer, Pulp Fiction, Radio, Rex Racer, San Francisco, Sprytle, The Galaxy Rangers, The Seventies, The Sixties, Trixie, Voice, Voice Actor, Voice Overs, Voices, Writer
Elmo on “The Wendy Williams Show”
• March 2, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Public Television, Television, Wendy Williams, Women
Tags: "Sesame Street", "The Wendy Williams Show", Elmo, Performance, Talk Show, The Muppets, Wendy Williams, Worms and Dirt
Art Clokey, Creator of Gumby and Pokey, Dies at 88
• January 9, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Art, Art Clokey, Children's Shows, Clay Animation, Documentaries, Film, History, Love, Memoir, Religion, Science, Television
Tags: "Black Bart", "Gumbasia", "Gumby Dharma", "Mandala", "The Adventures of Gumby", Art Clokey, Clay Animation, Clokey, ComicCon 2009, Dallas McKinnon, Davey and Goliath, Eddie Murphy, Fourth Street, Gender, Ginny Tyler, Google, Gumby, Gumbyana, Joseph Clokey, Kinesthetic Film Principles, Matt Groening, Nancy Wible, Native American, Norma McMillan, Pokey, Raceless, Robina Marchesi, Ruth Clokey, San Rafael CA, Slavko Vorkapich, Southern California, Stop Motion Clay Animation, The Eighties, The Nineties, The San Rafael Art Center, The Sixties, The Sundance Channel, You Tube, Zen Buddhism
Recent Comments