I have made a new blog post. This one continues a previous discussion, but can stand on its own and is largely new information on the topic (dissection of Perry Mason's formulaic approach and what it meant for Hamilton Burger). http://parkavenuebeat.blogspot.com/Read more... )

William Schallert appeared three times on Perry Mason. I knew of two of those times, but I just stumbled on the other one completely by accident. It's The Case of the Sulky Girl from season 1, and I recall watching it years ago, before I knew who William Schallert is. It's an epic episode all around, one of the best of season 1. William Schallert's ( Read more... )

Since I ranted about Deputy D.A. Sampson in here, I decided to link the readers to my full-length analysis of him here: http://parkavenuebeat.blogspot.com/2011/09/deputy-da-sampson-series-stereotypical.html I'm rather pleased with ( Read more... )

In the morning I had also wanted to include this mini-rant in my entry ( Read more... )

Well, I loved The Ballad of Josie. And William's character is a good guy, as I'd thought and hoped! He has some awesome moments, such as when he encourages Josie to do whatever she wants, including cattle-ranching, and when he blows up at George Kennedy's character, who's a real rotten guy. It was epic and delicious, seeing him give it to that ( Read more... )

Kim had an excellent idea of taking a 30-Day fandom meme, splitting it in half, and doing a bunch of the questions all at once. I was particularly interested in this meme, so I've taken the first half of it. I'll probably take the second half when she posts it ( Read more... )

I saw a really good movie on Netflix Streaming yesterday. (And tonight I have to cancel our streaming part, since they start charging us separate for both streaming and physical DVDs on September 1st. Ugh. It makes more sense to cancel streaming, since we use it less, but I still hate to get rid of it. Nevermind, it looks like we don't have to get ( Read more... )

By the way, here is the link to my Perry blog. I'm still pursuing the Blogspot version. I got up a short tribute to William Talman this past day, as it was 43 years ago that he died.

http://parkavenuebeat.blogspot.com/

Actually, it's been open since Sunday, but the last couple of days have been such a whirlwind with unforeseen difficulties that I haven't been able to promote the site as much yet as I had intended ( Read more... )

I've been thinking off and on that I would like to have a Blogger for my own private usage, in addition to the shared blog I have with Crystal for our Simon project. (The website opens this Sunday, by the way! Watch for our announcement.) I've been seriously contemplating having it be a Perry Mason exclusive blog, with episode dissections, ( Read more... )