Bernard David Jones Hangin’ With the Mayor By Jay S. Jacobs How is this for a TV series concept? An entertainer, who has no government experience or knowledge of the job, gets elected into an important political office, just on the strength of his personality. Come on, are people really going to buy into that? … Continue reading
Adam F. Goldberg Growing Up With The Goldbergs by Jay S. Jacobs As a website based in the suburban town of Jenkintown, PA, we here at PopEntertainment.com had gotten used to people outside of the area not knowing exactly where we were. Sometimes we’d go the simple route and just explain that it is a … Continue reading
The Last Man on Earth The Complete First Season – 2015 (20th Century Fox Home Video-2015) Apocalypse is not considered to be a subject which elicits yuks, so the idea of surviving in a post-apocalyptic world would seem an odd subject for a sitcom. Well Will Forte (Saturday Night Live, Nebraska) has created a sitcom … Continue reading
The Nanny The Complete Series (1993 – 1999) (Shout! Factory-2015) It’s hard to remember now, with all the years of reruns, jokes about Fran Drescher’s voice, Beautician and the Beast, the oddball tabloid stories, Happily Divorced and the inevitable marching on of time, but for a brief white hot pop culture period, The Nanny was … Continue reading
Elisha Cuthbert One Big Happy Sitcom by Landyn Gerace Elisha Cuthbert’s acting career has swerved from horror films (such as Captivity and House of Wax) to movie comedies (such as Old School and Love Actually) to TV dramas (such as 24 and The Forgotten). Now, the Canadian actress has now taken on one of television’s … Continue reading
The Dick Van Dyke Show The Complete Series (Image Entertainment-2012) To any self-respecting fan of pop culture/entertainment, just the sheer utterance of the show’s title, The Dick Van Dyke Show, conjures up a baby boomer television classic. Airing only five seasons (1961-1966), The Dick Van Dyke Show, created by Carl Reiner, chronicles the home/work life of the … Continue reading
Sarah Silverman Is Glad You Hurt Your Hand By Jay S. Jacobs Okay, she really doesn’t want you to hurt your hand. But Sarah Silverman loves to capture people off guard, whether it is in her stand-up act, her acclaimed shorts about getting your grandparents out to vote or fucking Matt Damon, or in portraying … Continue reading
Hannah Montana The Complete First Season (2006-2007) (Walt Disney Home Video-2008) How you respond to Hannah Montana can probably be crystallized by how you react to this mental picture: An actress, playing the Queen of England, competing in a dancing video game, telling her opponent, with a clipped, aristocratic accent, “Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.” … Continue reading
Rebecca Schull On the Naked Stage by Ronald Sklar It never fails to shock us when a beloved TV character takes a sharp left turn and makes daring choices. Rebecca Schull, for instance. Her name may not be instantly recognizable, but she has that face that makes you feel like you’ve seen it a million … Continue reading
Rachael Lawrence Doesn’t Really Mind Entering Her 30s by Jay S. Jacobs Fame can come from lots of different directions. Rachael Lawrence is determined to meet it head on. A California-born-and-bred multi-hyphenate; Lawrence has spent the last decade or so working as a singer, songwriter, actress, director and producer. She has even been a popular … Continue reading
