I want to tell you about Mary Costa, not just about her career and her importance to Disney animation history, but about the WOMAN. I can do that, because I met her. Even now, as the world seems topsy-turvy, she is what I think of when I think of goodness and the best of humanity.

A few days ago, I was thinking about my favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon. I bet you can’t guess, although it’s true most of my most beloved Bugs cartoons were directed by Chuck Jones. No, it’s not What’s Opera, Doc, considered by many, despite not winning the Oscar the year it was released, to be the

Imagine my surprise when I discovered NO ONE was having the official 50th celebration of one of my favorite Peanuts animation specials, Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown. The show premiered on January 28th, 1975, and went on to nominated for an Emmy, against two other Bill Melendez Productions studio releases, It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie

To paraphrase Joni Mitchell, “it’s comin’ on to Halloween”.  For film lovers, that means lots of great classic horror. There’s 1922’s Nosferatu, James Whale’s Frankenstein and the other wonderful Universal Monsters, seminal works of the 60s like Hitchcock’s Psycho, Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and the best Hammer horror, to 70s and 80s classics