Color TV sets first came out in 1954. By the next year, fewer than 1% of U.S. homes had a color TV. For that matter, only about half the homes in the U.S. had a TV set at all in 1955. Nevertheless, on ...

There is something of the fae folk about Mae Martin, at least onscreen — the big blue eyes, the short blond fluff of hair, the nonbinary grace. Over the last decade, Martin has darted through the ...