I’m at a life stage where unfortunately when I get private outreaches from friends/fans it often isn’t good news. It’s not that we necessarily obsess about death per se; it’s just the reality that many of the folks who helped shaped our career paths and in many cases were directly responsible for the quality of … Read more
It hasn’t exactly been a bellweather season so far for ABC, even by the minimalist standards one needs to apply to broadcast television in this day and age. A quick glance at a season-to-date ranker dropped last month by TV LINE’s Matt Webb Mitovich reveals that the Alphabet network (there’s your token reference worthy of … Read more
My heart truly goes out to the rank and file of what remains of Paramount Global during this holiday season, and it sure appears that a lot less of it will exist once we enter the New Year. THE WRAP’s chief deep diver Lucas Manfredi dropped this dour update yesterday on the progress of the … Read more
It’s not easy to fathom that there’s been sort of an austerity movement at an outlet like Prime Video, especially at a time of year when those Amazon Prime members are getting their money’s worth from those annual subscriptions. But since outside of NFL games we haven’t seen a peep of bravado lately for anything … Read more
The joke I used to try to tell in order to determine how generationally disparate people were was to ask them to describe Paul McCartney. No matter how they’d respond, I’d always quip “We would have been in trouble if I would have had to remind you that he was in band before WINGS. We … Read more
There’s plenty one could say about Patrick Soon-Shiong that I’ll allow would be accurate observations. Rich? Heck, yes. Has made billions in biotech and doesn’t shy away from defending how it can save the world. Civic-minded? Gotta give him that; at least he was willing to step up and bail out the Los Angeles TIMES … Read more
I hope you had a better week that I have had. It began with a surprising convergence of recurring auto payments and annual subscriptions that even after I got last week’s paycheck left me overdrawn. That often happens to me around the 30th or so of a month; this time it was the 25th. … Read more
As if #GLICKED wasn’t enough to momentarily revive the theatrical industry, along comes Disney with the first of its holiday contributions to kickstart it further. Today a much-anticipated sequel to MOANA debuts across America just in time to give those who aren’t stuck on kitchen prep a place to safely go hide and lose themselves … Read more
You’d be hard pressed to find a performer who has been as resilient and as popular over the past four decades and change as Ted Danson. No, he never did quite below the theatrical breakout his phenomenal early success as a breakout sitcom performer might have foreshadowed; he’s not and will never be John Travolta. … Read more
I’m sometimes accused by those who seem to not look past the first sentence of a musing of being somewhat misognyistic and male-biased. Far from it. I’ve been blessed through my career with the presence of some truly talented and inspiring female colleagues, subordinates and superiors. That’s all the more reason that when I encounter … Read more