So the Los Angeles Dodgers are champions of baseball once again, and this time without the asterisk of a COVID season as was the case four years ago. There will actually be a parade through downtown Los Angeles tomorrow and given what I know of the many rabid fans who are bleeding blue all over … Read more
I finally caught up with a longtime business colleague and friend for a quick but highly needed lunch earlier this week. She can be forgiven; it’s been roughly a year since she was part of the second wave of layoffs that her division of CBS endured. With two teenage children, one who’s just begun to … Read more
My roommate was literally over the moon about the spectacle that occupied Madison Square Garden on a rare day when the Knicks, Rangers or a concert wasn’t booked, one he claims he watched from end to end yesterday. He couldn’t stop raving about the energy, the love and the size of the crowd–perhaps because it … Read more
Snark if you choose, but my passion for game shows is justified every time someone takes a hard look at the economic realities of entertainment these days. In a world of seemingly endless choices of expensive scripted content, the fact that few can now actually reach the level of popularity to justify their production is … Read more
One of the reasons I pay a disproportionate amount of attention to sports and escapist entertainment is that there’s only so much bandwidth even I have for the urgency, determination, desperation and incendiary rhetoric that an election cycle tends to produce. And even though I don’t live in a swing state, I still get more … Read more
While most of us were otherwise preoccupied with our mundane day-to-day lives and having to endure endless and increasingly desperate-sounding political ads and texts, the lucky few who still have tentacles to international television got to escape to the spectacular environs of Cannes this past week, for what was perhaps the final incarnation of the … Read more
I’m not all that great with guessing ages, and I’m usually too courteous to attempt a guess of a woman’s unless invited to. Based on what little I know about Lisa Hamilton Daly, I don’t think I’m ever getting the gravitas from her to do so. But she has somehow become a trending item over … Read more
There’s a lot of outrage being leveled at what I have frequently referenced as the Left Angeles TIMES lately, and for a change it has nothing to do with the otherwise omnipresent issue that seems to obsess the gang of remotely based “experts” routinely devoting thousands of words to the latest “alarming” wastewater trends. Here’s … Read more
I get that it’s sort of a slow news cycle in the silly little world of media. The fall TV premieres have pretty much all gone down, the handful of significant holiday theatrical releases (thanks again, AMPTP) are still a way’s off, the dealmakers are partying it up on the Croissette at MIPCOM this week … Read more
My roommate is a particularly giddy mood these days, as he continues to become more convinced that his choice is all but assured his second presidential term. Much as that fact may be daunting to many of you, I can’t say he’s wrong. Thanks to his virtually nonstop blaring of FOX News and FOX Business … Read more