Somehow May 4th became Star Wars day—“May the Fourth be With You.” It’s not even a release date of any of the movies. But oh well. Even...

I watched The Consultant on Amazon Prime. The reviews were lukewarm, and now I know why. Years ago there was a Beavis and Butt-Head...

Well, the WGA strike is on. That was predictable. Thinking of unions and how important they are: Listen to one of the all-time great...

If you follow entertainment news at all, you know a writers strike is quite possible (and even likely) after the WGA contract expires at...

Trekkies: You gotta check out the newly launched Roddenberry Archive. I’m still figuring out the controls, but there are these tour-able...

Holy moly. Check out this new YouTube analysis by Patrick Suiter on the “Helicopter Rescue” from John Williams’ score to Superman: The...

I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer in the name of my stepfather, Herb Putnam. The charity is PanCan and they are fantastic....

I wrote about Titanic a week or two ago, because I watched it with our twin girls (they’re almost nine). They have friends who are...

Now this is my kind of YouTube channel! Musician David Page has created a series of deep-dive videos about the classic Star Trek...

Aw, man...this is painful. The famous Warner Bros. Ranch, with its iconic Midwest street, is slated to be torn down this summer, to make...

I generally find that fans make too much of an orchestrator’s contribution to a film score. The really great, A-list composers either...

Above: the FSM office in Culver City circa 2004. I reconnected with some friends from the soundtrack specialty labels this past week. I...

I’ve written before about Robotech, one of my favorite shows as a kid. I was delighted to discover on the wormhole that is YouTube this...

Here’s a funny deep-dive from Vulture on a legendary story behind the scenes of Roseanne. I had never heard of this, but it sounds funny...

One of the things that literary managers tell new screenwriters is to be prepared to name some of your favorite movies—and specifically,...

Hello friends! Time for one of those periodic notices about FSM CDs that are almost sold out. It’s hard to believe most of these were...

I was wondering how long I could keep doing a daily blog post. Fortunately, the Internet wormhole helps facilitate short posts, like this...

Hello Friends. I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer, which took my stepfather, HERB PUTNAM, in 2008. He was only 59. Herb was...

I used to love This Week in Baseball. Before ESPN, Sportscenter and a million cable channels with their overpriced sports packages, it...

Like everybody else I saw the announcement earlier this week about new Star Wars films. There have been so many of these announced, and...

Whoa! Another one of my all-time favorite cues: “Luke Pursues the Captives” by John Williams from The Empire Strikes Back. The harmony to...

My twin girls wanted to watch Titanic. They are almost nine and they have friends (girls) at school who are crazy for it. So we started...

I love this: an audio engineer has located and uploaded the original take of the famous “Wilhelm scream,” a sound effect created for the...

Here’s an interesting article from The Atlantic (paywall) about one-hit wonders. Somebody figured out the pattern with them—it’s in the...