Programming notes, etc.

Just a few notes today: I'll be on the Fictional Frontiers radio show this Sunday — it airs 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon EST on WNJC 1360 AM-Philadelphia. A few days after, the podcast goes online here. My segment is prerecorded and was an enjoyable interview to do — covering both both my past and future Star Wars work with an interviewer who knew the series really well. It's part of a larger SW show, they said — super-collector Steve Sansweet is also slated to be on the program.

I am finally back in Comics Buyer's Guide, after a long hiatus getting my webcomic going. The topic in this month's issue (#1650): getting a webcomic going...

And I was sorry to read about the passing of Van Johnson. I admit that I wasn't aware he was still with us — he's been out of the public eye for many years — but he's in a lot of great movies, including some of my favorites. Check out Battleground, a wonderful retelling of the Battle of the Bulge (and, yes, that is Ricardo Montalban out there in the snow). He also did a lot of TV later on, including at least two spokes of the NBC Mystery Movie "wheel" from the 1970s that I can recall. (I wonder if anyone did the "full wheel"? Nah, there weren't that many episodes of Hec Ramsey to be in...)