Fox's "Glee" is a hit, again.

Tuesday night's return of the singing and dancing series scored its best ratings ever, pulling in 13.7 million viewers, which is a vast improvement over its series premiere numbers last year (9.6 million).

News of a ratings smash should come as no surprise to the millions of dedicated fans, otherwise known as "gleeks." Social networks are constantly abuzz about the Fox series and watch parties are popping up all over the country.

Perhaps the most obvious fan base is the Broadway community. Last year the New York Times mentioned that the teenage cast of "Bye Bye Birdie" gathered after the show...

Just last week I stumbled upon an email invitation from my high school reunion committee. It’s been 10 years since I departed Saugus High, a mostly white-bred school in an innocuous Los Angeles suburb.

I’ve yet to decide if I’ll be making a trip back to California for this little shindig. It's not that I had a bad experience. In fact, I had a pretty lackluster time. I came, I saw, I went.  Most of my memories are linked to pop culture happenings that coincided with my time at Saugus.

Highlights included sleeping outside a theater to see "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace" (George Lucas still owes me a refund), seeing U2's Popmart Tour, getting addicted to Broadway's "Rent," following NBC's "Friends" and being swept away by "Titanic." 

Then, just before graduation, a little movie struck...

I randomly flipped on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" the other day and quickely recalled a gathering I attended a few years back where Andreas Deja, a Disney animator, spoke about bringing the zany rabbit to life.

Deja had joined the Disney animation department in 1980, where he actually had a chance to meet many of the "Nine Old Men," that historic group that set the standard for all animated films to follow.

Throughout his career, Deja had the opportunity to create such memorable characters as King Triton in "The Little Mermaid," Gaston in "Beauty and the Beast" and Jafar in "Aladdin," just to name a few. Besides the classic nature of those often fantastic creations, they shared one extremely important quality -- they were all hand-drawn creations.

It's something the future crop of Disney...

President Obama dropped by NBC Thursday for what will hopefully be a future fireside chat series, although better off without Jay Leno. And who was out in full force to greet our newly elected leader but a bunch of grumpy SAG members.

Oh yes, and ousted national exec Doug Allen. The actors' union continues to gripe about Hollywood's "last, best and final offer" regarding contract negotiations.

While SAG has all but agreed on the new-media terms of the producers' offer, holding out any further runs the risk of stunting Hollywood's evolution. Studios will soon have no option but to make a push for more online content, otherwise they might lose the digital demographic.

NBC Universal and News Corp's foray into viral video, Hulu, celebrated a big win last week, ranking as the number-two video website, coming in only behind YouTube. The site now has 9.5...