Emmett Otter Bound for the Stage and Muppets Etc.

I'm not sure how a live action otter puppet musical is really going to work, but Paul Williams is involved. I've yet to hear his Happy Days musical. That Muppet Central site is pretty cool, the news about the Sarah Marshall guy writing the next Muppet Movie is pretty interesting. For further Muppet information, get lost in the Muppet Wiki. Finally, we have The Muppet Show Season 3 in stock. The first two are great of course, but it gets really super awesome with this one. I've just started disc 2 but there's already a few standouts: Gilda Radner paired with a giant carrot doing songs from Pirates of Penzance, Alice Cooper's "School's Out" with giant monster choreography, and Loretta Lynn's appearance taking place in a train station instead of the usual theatre.

Will I EVER get to see Paul Williams?

My friends Paul and Brianne are in Australia. Freakin' Paul Williams is playing there! When oh when will he play somewhere nearby. Nearerby than the Grand Canyon. Branson, maybe? Ho-chunk Casino? Come on Paul!!

The Night They Saved Christmas

They don't make TV movies like this anymore, yet the message of environmentalism is as fresh as Al Gore's green necktie. Follow your typical nuclear family circa 1983 of fed up, pilot license possessing mom (Jaclyn Smith) and stereotypical children (the bully, the brain and the girl) as they are pitted against geologist Dad who is totally going to blow up the North Pole if he continues with his oil drilling! Santa sends his head elf Ed (played by tiny freaking genius PAUL WILLIAMS) to win mom and kids over with a harrowing trip to the North Pole. Of course nobody believes them, and the theory of them being dosed with mind altering drugs is postulated several times by dad's
grumpy boss. This will rise like froth on eggnog to the top of your
Christmas movie viewing.

The Carpenters + Carol Burnett do Paul Williams Medley!

v/a A Whole Lot of Rainbows

Fans of sunshine pop (certainly I am not the only one!) will find much to sink their teeth into with this bastard offspring of the Nuggets boxes. As the title promises, you will indeed be inundated with rainbows, and no less then TWO Paul Williams-penned songs (his own psych-pop band The Holy Mackerel as well as the Monkees performing "Someday Man"). Put this in your picnic basket with the box of wine and baguette and forget about the snow 'til next year!