Archive for December, 2007
Why?
Michael Douglas now voices the intro to NBC Nightly News. (See it here… scroll down to the Nightly News podcast.)
Now, Michael Douglas is a fine actor. But he is not a better announcer than the best announcers in the business. This is a typical devaulation of the talents of an entire craft. It’s the same [...]
Font update
In regards to this post, the kind people at Ask Metafilter tell me it’s Bookman Swash Italic, which unfortunately has never been available as a digital font. Alas.
Memories…
This guy has posted to Youtube some great old Canadian TV commercials from the 1970s. Some of these are among my earliest memories of TV watching. Everything from beer…
to insurance (and a jingle that’s vivid in my mind)…
and of course, the Colonel!
Search
You are currently browsing the General Critic weblog archives for December, 2007.
Longer entries are truncated. Click the headline of an entry to read it in its entirety.
