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I’m often accused of having sometimes too good a memory, especially for events that qualified as firsts in my life.  I can recall in very vivid detail where and what I was doing when the Mets won their first National League pennant (in my mom’s clunky Oldsmobile Holiday sedan riding home from school, same as

I believe I’ve been told to “let it go” far more often by countless supposedly supportive people in my life than young Queen Elsa’s inner voice told that to her.  Anyone who does actually know me knows that’s far easier said than done, lately, espeically.  I don’t need yet again to rattle off the reasons;

At first blush, this weekend’s stubborn box office showdown between Warner Brothers’ BARBIE and Universal’s OPPENHEIMER would have appeared to have been nothing more than classic counterprogramming.   Yes, both of these stories have their roots in the 1950s.  But aside from that, they would not have much else in common. OPPENHEIMER is the true story

MEMO TO: DUNCAN CRABTREE-IRELAND, NATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CHIEF NEGOTIATOR, SAG-AFTRA FROM: STEVE LEBLANG,  CONSULTANT RE: SECOND IMPRESSIONS Dear Mr. Crabtree-Ireland: I must begin by offering you my most humble and complete apologies.  The first time I saw you speak, you played the supporting role behind your union president Fran Drescher’s stirring extemporaneous call to action last

There’s an awful lot of bad news out there in entertainment land.  INDIANA JONES and his fedora are limping into the sunset.  Ethan Hunt and the IMF ran up far too high a tab to make even their global performance one that has wowed most media pundits.  Peacock, the home of so many award-winning original

So Ethan Hunt and the IMF made a triumphant return to the big screen at last last week, with the much-anticipated and hyped release of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING.  It’s the seventh time this supercharged, reinvented IP has been tapped into by Paramount to save the world, let alone its sagging stock price, and given

I’ve had a little time to digest some of the spirit and energy I saw first-hand on the now joint picket lines of SAG-AFTRA and WGA on Friday.  I listened intensely as an actor, being interviewed at length by an outstanding entertainment news reporter I happened to run into chronicle in detail one particular issue

The first thing one cannot help not notice when you meet Mike Darnell is that he’s, how shall we say, vertically challenged.  I’m hardly an imposing figure myself, but I have actually have had to look down when I’ve been huddled in a production truck with Mike, and he wasn’t sitting at the time. The