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• How sometimes being in the wrong place is the right thing to do

  In this week's "Why For" column, Jim Hill shares a story that Wally Boag once told him. Which explains how -- thanks to being accidentally upstaged by Steve Martin -- this Disney Legend wound up appearing on "The Muppet Show" Read More... Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: Muppets, Jim Henson, Disneyland, Anaheim, Disney Legend, Saturday Night Live, YouTube, Hollywood, Steve Martin, Steven Spielberg, Golden Horseshoe , Wally Boag, opening night, backstage, London, audience, Universal Studios Hollywood , Woody Allen , 1978, Ellen Boag, The Muppet Show, The Golden Horseshoe Revue, Muppet Show, Golden Horseshoe Revue, Universal Amphitheater, Jake, Dan Ackroyd, Elwood, John Belushi, vaudeville, Jack Nicholson, vaudevillian, vaudevillians, Elwood Blues, Hollywood royalty, Jake Blues, Hollywood party, Jake and Elwood, Hollywood crowd, The Blues Brothers, Adam, Blues Brothers, first class, Bernadette Peters, comfort zone, dressing room, right place, wrong place, Wild and Crazy Guy, A Wild and Crazy Guy, Pecos Bill, Mexican, opportunity, engagement, 80% of success is showing up, apology, special guest, special guests

• The Towers live on ... in movies & television, that is

  On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, Jim Hill looks at some cinematic depictions of the World Trade Center from the past 30+ years Read More... Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:00 AM | 6 Comments Filed under: Disney, movies, TV, New York City, television, Manhattan, 9/11, NYC, Steven Spielberg, DVD, movie, 1976, 2008, animated feature, television program, television programs, 2001, New Hampshire, action sequence, New York, motion picture, 1981, King Kong , remake, Jay Sherman, The Critic, New York skyline, The Towers, Towers, Twin Towers, standing tall, still standing tall, The World Trade Center , television show , media maven , World Trade Center, 1988, Oliver & Company, Woody Allen , old New York, montage , principal location, Dino De Laurentiis, Escape from New York, Snake Plissken, glider, sacrilege, John Carpenter, Ronald Neame, Meteor, national tragedy, 911, Deep Impact, tsunami , Tommy Emmanuel, imposing structure, A.I., next Ice Age, the test of time, natural lives, reality intrudes, the real world, piece of entertainment , Sosuke, still standing