For as much as the people I admire so much on the creative side of the entertainment industry may try to contend that they deal with more rejection than anyone else I would merely ask them to visualize themselves in my role, since the ones skilled in the Strasberg method tend to be able to … Read more
Let me be crystal clear; I don’t travel in the same circles as Casey Wasserman does. For one, my pop-pop ran a neighborhood pharmacy, not a legendary talent agency that eventually wound up controlling Universal Studios. For another, my skill sets are anything but in demand in the sector of the inustry where his own … Read more
Yes, I read the NEW YORK/CALIFORNIA POST, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Have been doing so since practically the moment I could read on my own, even long before Rupert Murdoch and family got their grubby little claws on it. I love their sports coverage and I’m fascinated by how they use screaming … Read more
I’m kicking myself once again for falling prey to the temptation of a cheap quick fix via social media courtesy of Temu, the Chinese answer to Amazon that I made the mistake of downloading a while ago and somehow continue to forget to delete. For those of you who have it, you’ve probably noted that … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. Greetings and salutations to all of you 12th Men (and women) who are gloating with justifiable glee this AM in the wake of what went down … Read more
Another NATPE has come and gone, perhaps the least newsworthy one I can recall, and I’ve been around for a while. Nary a single significant project for fall 2026 was announced despite the reality that there’s an awful lot of real estate that’s now in flux. We’ve been reminded of this on a nightly basis … Read more
You gotta hand it to Disney when it comes to tenacity about brands. As newly anointed incoming CEO Josh D’Amaro articulated yesterday in a coronation interview conducted by one of ABC”s few current category leaders, WORLD NEWS TONIGHT’s David Muir, a central component of the company’s strategy with its most zealotic fans is providing the … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. Turns out there is something to the concept that you can get too much of a good thing. Not that I didn’t already realize that … Read more
Later this morning, as dawn descends on the hamlet of Punxsatawney PA where the thermometer currently reads a balmy 3 degrees, we will learn via a nocturnal mammal whether there will be only six more weeks of that sort of chill. Last night, we most certainly began a stretch of at least one week where … Read more
How fortunate for the crew at FX and their sister networks that they finally found their way onto the Disney lot as full-time residents last month–a mere six years and ten months after they were acquired. I guess they found enough time to purge and pack efficiently, which likely meant they could hit the ground … Read more