Spies, murder, buried treasure, cold cases. Make some scones, brew some tea and embrace your inner Anglophile with these British shows.
Win VERA on DVD
It’s Thanksgiving weekend! Does the mere thought of traveling through terrible weather and traffic just make you want to commit MURDER? Instead of engaging in a terrible crime, make a pot of hot tea and curl up with the DVD set of Vera.
Four Things to Look For in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
Even with his impressive resume and box office dependability, the studio was hesitant to greenlight a picture like Psycho.
Too Marvelous For Words: Spotlight on Johnny Mercer
Four Academy Awards, plus sixteen nominations. More than 1,500 published songs. Johnny Mercer founded a record company and the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. Sometimes singer, sometimes composer, always wordsmith. He had a way with making the simple things sound fantastical and making unlikely phrases roll of the tongue. His smooth Southern drawl and his ability…
Happy birthday, Johnny Mercer
Mercer wrote more than 1,500 songs. He won four Oscars (and was nominated for 14 more), founded Capitol Records (and gave Nat “King” Cole his first contract) and founded the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.