It’s rare when I hear from one particular friend of mine who keeps an extremely busy schedule, what with nonstop travel, an upcoming book and personal obligations including caretaking for her ailing mom. So when she asks me to check out an upcoming reality show, of all things, for my nuanced take, and perhaps some … Read more
After more than 30 years since it last aired an original episode, and more than two years after NBC and Warner Brothers announced their intention to revive it, tonight NIGHT COURT is back in session on NBC. To their credit, both entities have gone out of their way to promote it during their more popular … Read more
Bob Iger’s honeymoon return to the CEO helm at Disney became a nightmare for many of its previously overjoyed employees earlier this week when this little missive wound up in inboxes (as reported by Alex Sherman and Sarah Whitten of CNBC.com): Bob Iger told hybrid employees on Monday they must return to corporate offices four … Read more
Now I’m gonna probably piss off a few people who think I’m yet again shooting myself in the groin by calling out someone who once used to return my calls. Let me state upfront that anything written from this point forward has absolutely nothing to do with any personal history. I’ve long since resolved that … Read more
I admit I’m a creature of habit when it comes to certain consumption patterns, and my occasional thirst for local Los Angeles news has been typically quenched with a dose of KCBS-TV’s newscasts, typically middays following THE PRICE IS RIGHT, which I’ve invariably had on for comfort food and background noise even when I worked … Read more
The Golden Globes, which for decades has been the kickoff to an awards season that often championed the more elitist and niche works via a small and easily swayable group of mostly non-American entertainment reporters, returned to NBC and a well-dressed capacity crowd at the Century Plaza hotel last night, Or, as host Jerrold Carmichael … Read more
Any time you can get competitors to agree upon anything as simple as “it’s raining outside” in this climate, it’s newsworthy. One only needs to look at the sh-tstorm that unfolded in real time in the House of Representatives’ chambers last week as evidence of that unfortunate truth. So when an item like this one … Read more
The first major celebrity death of 2023 was reported yesrerday, an inevitability that I was hoping–and still piously hope–would be less frequent than last year. That still may be true, but the sting of this one will haunt me for a while. Like way too many in my age group during my college years, I … Read more
I still have a few friends who are invested and proactive enough to forward me articles that will potemtially inspire my own takes. The nature of such support with people whose lives are far busier than mine is typically when a headline or a first graf catches their eye and then invites me to parse … Read more
I didn’t exactly grow up around royalty, but I did have a few celebrity connections in my youth. Paul Simon grew up two blocks away from me in a small garden apartment; his mom Belle was a teacher in my grade school. His mom and my teacher were close, so when he had just split … Read more