It’s already been a hellish summer in New York City by any standard. They’ve been in the middle of an oppressive heat wave that has temperatures and humidity well into the nineties, and both the Mets and Yankees have been in extended slumps; the Mets’ already costing them first place. And that’s on top of … Read more
I’m in the demographic sweet spot that was undoubtedly going to click on TELL ME EVERYTHING, the Hulu documentary about the life and career of Barbara Walters that the platform dropped yesterday. You’ve undoubtedly heard of her given the breadth of her storied career, a six decade juggernaut where she was ever-present in both daytime … Read more
Maybe it was the fact that tens of thousands of really cool and smart people were conducting business meetings at poolside cabanas at Cannes Lions wearing beachwear and flip flops. Maybe it was the fact that open bars and late night stops at Le Pizza were creating a vibe that put just about anything in … Read more
Well, the Fat-scist-In-Chief up and did it. On an otherwise slow summer Saturday night the internet reverberated with the reaction to this proclamation of war. No, it’s not quite up there in quotability as “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, is a date that will live in infamy”. But it’s patently obviously that anyone who uses the … Read more
I’m a fervent believer that the eye test and the “I” test should supercede any and all written articles or testimonies on just about any subject. What I’ve experienced personally shapes my opinions first and foremost; short of that, if two or more otherwise disconnected people who have had their own personal experience with someone … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional articles on technology. Last night, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres closed out a crucial four-game series with a tense, emotion-filled game that got emotional early and escalated … Read more
Tonight in the legacy basketball capital of America (what, you never saw HOOSIERS?), Indianapolis, Indiana, NBA history could be made. The Oklahoma City Thunder are one win away from winning their first-ever title at the expense of the Pacers, who themselves have already doubled the number of Finals wins the franchise had prior to this … Read more
No matter how much of a lull the media world may be in, leave it to the good folks at Nielsen to throw chum into the waters around this time every month when they release the first iteration of The Gauge, their “analysis” of media consumption that those that are still covering this beat immediately … Read more
It’s been pretty difficult in recent days for me to find something worth smiling about. I’m sorry, but I simply cannot take anything resembling a victory lap about how things went this past weekend. A few thousand neighborhood pep rallies with absolutely no impact on policy or the targets they creatively derided, or the fact … Read more
Yep, it’s definitely not the busiest time of year in the media world. Awards season deadlines have come and gone, upfronts and screenings have been held and the ensuing negotiations that come from them are still nascent. We’re only just now starting to see even summer schedules released, and the bigger theatrical gambits might be … Read more