Now that we’re all fed and hopefully whatever travels were necessary for Thanksgiving have been completed safely, there is now at least a little bit of time to clear your heads, take a fresh look at your calendars and figure out what we’re all gonna do with the remaining few business days of 2023. If … Read more
As an awful lot of pundits and observers noted over the holiday week, this is the beginning of Year Two of Bob AIger Reign Two and yes, Happy Bobiversary to all. Suffice to say it didn’t exactly begin the way some might have hoped. Per VARIETY’s Rebecca Rubin: Disney may need to find another star … Read more
I’ve spent a great deal of my professional career utilizing a skill set where I am able to synthesize and process information and opinions from hundreds, sometimes thousands of people, and dispassionately distill the material takeaways to invested parties. I’m even able to do that when I have a room full of a dozen or … Read more
Dear Ms. Streisand, My humblest apologies. I initially had no intention of reading your recently released autobiography MY NAME IS BARBRA. I had gotten some tepid feedback from friends who lamented plunking down $47 for nearly 1000 pages of your stories, many of which they found to be written from the perspective of someone who … Read more
It’s Thanksgiving morning, and somehow, against increasingly escalating odds per actuarial tables that factor in exponential increases in stress and trauma into their equations along with mere aging, I’ve made it to another chance to wake up with the Macy’s parade, use football as white noise or distraction for the balance of the day and … Read more
It is with no small amount of gratitude coupled with a modest amount of shock that I can still recall with some degree of personal connection and accuracy the events of sixty years ago today. It seems like a lifetime ago and as the years go on, the differences between the world then and the … Read more
A politically astute friend of mine recently confided to me that she is actively tuning out her usual fixation with newspapers, TV and social media, and she pointed out a couple of recent events as to why. She is a proud “Nooyahrican” by her own definition and also has family roots with the Cuban community … Read more
We’re in the season where people are going home for the holidays, which in recent years has been more sporadic than it used to be. It’s not cheap, way too many people have “safety” issues and, sometimes, it’s not all that desired an experience on either side. For those reasons, sometimes years can go by … Read more
There was once an era where the Sunday New York Times was far more important and ubiquitous than it is these days, and even on a normal Sunday it would be hundreds of pages and dozens of sections. On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, with an overload of inserts from advertisers offering the beginnings of their … Read more
I can’t even begin to imagine what it must be like to be in Linda Yaccarino’s shoes these days. Not that I could afford them, nor likely fit into them. And I certainly couldn’t balance on a stiletto heel, nor rock them in any manner close to how she can. But for someone who was … Read more