I have been fortunate enough to have been able to call exceptionally talented and auspiced people colleagues and sometimes friends. But through an extremely convoluted set of events that I would need a 23-and-me expert to parse a few years ago I learned that one of them was also a cousin, albeit many times removed. … Read more
When one does what I’ve been doing as long as I have been doing it one has to accept the reality that no matter how cock-sure and certain one may be about a potential outcome there will be times when our prognostications will be proven to be dead wrong. It’s happened to me probably hundreds … Read more
I had to bid farewell to a friend yesterday, something I don’t do easily or willingly if you know me at all. Actually, he was more of a business bud, someone who would rely on me as a resource when he was an entertainment reporter for a major newspaper back in the days when such … Read more
There was little question that THE ODYSSEY was going to win the weekend and own cultural zeitgeist; indeed, the NBC Universal car wash both physical and digital has been relentlessly promoting for weeks and, thankfully, Christopher Nolan seemed to appear in articles and sound bites more often than almost anyone else in the world–yes, even … Read more
Yesterday turned out to be a coupla roller coasters for me in more ways than one. . The afternoon hours were spent attempting to take advantage of a celebratory day offered up by my employer’s new owners at Magic Mountain, one of the rare trips to an amusement park I’ve made of late. I did … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site THE DOUBLE OVERTIME. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. It’s not that easy to be a fan of the Texas Rangers. I’ve spent enough time in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to know that … Read more
Like apparently most of you, I’ve been doing a little refreshing of my knowledge of THE ODYSSEY, which later today will in all likelihood begin dominating cultural zeitgeist as well as the box office for at least the rest of this month. So trust me, musings on that are forthcoming. But our good friend Teddy … Read more
Lately, as more and more people have been finally discovering these musings, I’m asked what did I consider to be the “apex mountain” point of my life, It’s with more than a touch of wistful irony that I immediately pivot to the early oughts, when my star at FX and what we euphemistically referenced as … Read more
My “business partner” contends that we are picking up new readers and followers on a regular basis thanks to his array of opinions on everything from the minituae of Chicago sports to his auspiced takes on technology based on his vast experience in the boardrooms–or even the lobbies–of those companies. I’ve yet to see any … Read more
You haven’t seen too much about Paramount content this summer, and not too much all that good about Warner Brothers, either. So as which practically every outlet with even a remote connection to Universal or Greece has shamelessly dubbed “Odyssey Week” was kicking off it was practically scripted that we’d finally see the long-rumored drawing … Read more