Yes, I’m enough of a Luddite to still believe there is a legitimate business in first-run TV syndication. I admit I’m biased, having personally benefitted from it for decades, both as a strategist abetting sellers and as a discerning buyer who often frustrated those trying to make deals with me. I’m sure I didn’t make … Read more
As many of you know, I am a passionate believer of face-to-face, actual human contact. I freely admit the pandemic was disarming to me, and its timing and the destruction of what I thrived on for decades–a work family to make up for my lack of anything concrete or supportive elsewhere, opportunities for chance encounters … Read more
I suppose there are a lot of expectations that people have when one’s last name is Green or Greene. After all, green is one of the most descriptive adjectives and theoretically positive words in the English language. Green means go. There is usually an association with movement. Green is the color of money. There is … Read more
The story you are about to read is true. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. since no one named is. Monday, April 3rd, 4:27 a.m. It was unseasonably cool in Los Angeles. As I tend to do at that time of the day, I was doomscrolling through my overnight e-mails and alerts … Read more
The news wasn’t unexpected, given that it was teased relentlessly by media “leaks” over the weekend, while thousands of enthusiasts and media execs convened at SoFi Stadium in finally sunny Los Angeles for one of the preeminent live events of the year. But the impact of the story that broke just a few minutes ago … Read more
I want to go on record that I fully endorse and support the concerns of the talented members of the Writers Guild of America in their battle with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that has led Hollywood, in the centennial year of its iconic sign and two of its largest studios, Warner … Read more
It’s major league baseball’s opening day, and I couldn’t be more excited, Appropriately, one of the first two games of a rare opening day where all 30 teams are scheduled will be at Yankee Stadium, whose original iteration across the Bronx’s River Avenue first opened 100 years ago. The teams that will play, the Giants … Read more
Most of my more popular and attractive friends in high school did school plays. They got to roam the halls freely after classes ended with lengthy rehearsals, often took to the front of classrooms to personally hock tickets, and since we had no football team and barely a basketball team, they were the closest thing … Read more
If you’ve ever spent any time in Western New York, particularly Buffalo, there’s two must-have local favorites you must experience, calories be damned. Real Buffalo wings, particular those from the Anchor Bar, and with celery and blue cheese dressing as a side, is a must. So, too, is a hearty sandwich called a “Beef on … Read more
I admit I’m predisposed to liking most things Chinese, despite a lot of evidence that I should not. I grew up in a multicultural neighborhood filled with excellent Chinese restaurants; if you’ve ever seen Awkwafina’s hilarious semi-autobiographical Comedy Central NORA FROM QUEENS, know that filmed it largely in my area (in fact, her grandparents … Read more