Forget the Olympics; too much rain, anyway. Forget football training camps; too humid. And forget those camping trips, way too many fires. If you are really looking for an escape to paradise, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more temperate and diverse place for a summer weekend than the San Diego Comic-Con International, blissfully finally … Read more
Whenever I see someone who I’ve had the pleasure of knowing for years get an opportunity to be featured prominently on a popular platform, it attracts both my attention and yes, my one-off investment. I’m always interested in what auspiced people have to say. So when I saw Linda Ong listed as the co-author of … Read more
You’d be hard pressed to find any media company with more to cheer about this summer than Comcast. Between DESPICABLE ME and TWISTERS, they’ve effectively owned the theatrical box office and have almost single-handedly helped stave off the relentless naysayers who prematurely concluded that that business was heading for the same fate as Blockbuster Video. … Read more
When the news broke Sunday that has evolved into Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive eleventh hour choice of the Democratic party to seek the presidency, some of my snarkier social media connections immediately went into tabloid and grade school mode. Some saw this as confirmation of what a good friend of mine calls the “power … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, Double Overtime (thedoubleovertime.com) Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports fandom and media. If this were a normal NBA summer, last night’s Summer League finale before a sparse dispassionate crowd at Las Vegas’ Thomas and Mack Center would have been the last gasp of … Read more
After yesterday’s diatribe of doom that sent me down yet another political rabbithole, I was all set to muse about how a marginally reviewed reboot of nearly 30-year-old IP managed to become the latest box office savior of the summer (Spoiler alert: per DEADLINE’s Anthony D’Alessandro, TWISTERS pulled off that feat by eschewing almost all … Read more
The more this wacky, unpredictable and utterly exasperating presidential campaign summer drags on, the more difficult it becomes to understand why so many high-salaried and supposedly auspiced individuals appear increasingly incapable of taking some sort of action that might instill confidence from anyone other than blind faith devotees. The most recent chain of events that … Read more
If you blinked during the recent few days where celebrity deaths and near-deaths for politicians dominated the news cycle, you probably missed most of the newsworthy items that were unveiled during the Summer Television Critics Press Tour, which once again held court at the fabluous and thankfully heavily air conditioned Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. … Read more
The spectre of celebrity death has been unrelenting this month, and we’re barely past the halfway point. Yesterday yet another legend left us when the revered Bob Newhart passed a couple of months short of 95, leaving legions of fans from multiple generations to both grieve and warmly remember him. If you were around when … Read more
For all the negativity and nervousness one might find if they found themselves in a room with media’s leaders and titans, you;d be hard pressed to find someone with more of a spring in their step than you’d be likely to find in John Landgraf’s today. Landgraf is more than merely a survivor, now in … Read more