Two nights in a row where I actually had both the resources and invitations to get out on the town. If you’re surprised. you’re not alone. The rate things have gone for me of late, I’m actually in a bit of a state of shock. Then again, it’s not every day when the most popular … Read more
When a friend who just happens to be a genius schleps across the country to buy you a drink, you drop what you’re doing and make sure you take them up on it. At least that’s my mindset these days. Once we get ten days into a month, I’ll take any offer for any sustinence … Read more
I’m particularly gratified these days when people are genuinely surprised when they find out my actual age. I take particular pride in how I’ve been able to physically retool myself enough that the photograph on my driver’s license, now nearly a decade old, looks absolutely nothing like how I do now and people–even the most … Read more
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