Reflections on music, movies, TV, sports, American History, and other stuff.

I am now writing blogs and stories for the Arizona Republic and the Rocky Mountain News. The Republic just started blogs and I was fortun...

The blog will now be posted to http://denver.yourhub.com/User.aspx?UserID=26356 Thanks, Jim

By Jim McAllister Just when it looked like Hollywood was going down for the count, they had a great summer. The summer of 2006 showed an in...

The cast of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE ....L-R Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin. A funny little road movie, ...

Baseball season is basically over for me as the Diamondbacks are finished after being swept by Washington this past weekend and the Reds a...

WILLIAM H. MACY in THE COOLER (2003) Macy is a pro and knows that Lindsay Lohan isn't (Lion's Gate Films)

This in from Suzanne Condie Lambert . William H. Macy , a true professional and a fine actor, comments on the work ethic of actress (actress...

MITZI GAYNOR....One of the queens of babedom from the 1950's is 75. What a dish she was as Nellie Forbush in SOUTH PACIFIC (1958)! (B...

Can you believe Mitzi Gaynor just turned 75 and little Macaulay Culkin is divorced and 26? I don’t want to admit where that places me!.......

STEVE and TERRI IRWIN....The host of THE CROCODILE HUNTER is dead at 44. (Greg Barrett)

Recent deaths: Actor Glenn Ford , 90, Olympic champion and former congressman Bob Mathias , 75, Jazz great Maynard Ferguson , 78, and Austra...

(Originally published in the INDEPENDENT, October, 2005) by Jim McAllister The date is January 1, 1971 . At 11:59 p.m. on "The Tonight ...

JOHNNIE ROVENTINI..."The smallest bellhop in the world" was the spokesman for Philip Morris cigarettes for over 40 years beginning...

With radio, television, and print advertising, cigarettes had a stronghold on advertising for many years. The print ads from the past are a...

LUCILLE BALL...We all loved Lucy and she loved her cigs. This 1953 print ad shows her pushing Philip Morris. She and Johnnie made a formid...

by Jim McAllister Welcome to late August in the desert we love called Arizona. It hasn’t been as hot this summer as in some past years and ...

PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY... Why isn't he smiling? My advice: Stay away from Buffalo. (Robert McMahan)

For example: In 1899 the guy who ran the U.S. Patent Office told President McKinley that he should close the Office because "Everythi...

YANKEE STADIUM..."The House that Ruth Built" will be history in a couple of years (Newsday)

There is a guy in New York named Ryan Leli who loves the New York Mets . Leli, 18, loves the Mets so much that he counterfeited press iden...