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There’s A New Sheriff Of First-Run TV. And Not A Moment Too Soon.
Yes, I’m enough of a Luddite to still believe there is a legitimate business in first-run TV syndication. I admit I’m biased, having personally benefitted from it for decades, both as a strategist abetting sellers and as a discerning buyer who often frustrated those trying to make deals with me. I’m sure I didn’t make
A Fan Takes Center Stage. Stand Up And Cheer For Him.
As many of you know, I am a passionate believer of face-to-face, actual human contact. I freely admit the pandemic was disarming to me, and its timing and the destruction of what I thrived on for decades–a work family to make up for my lack of anything concrete or supportive elsewhere, opportunities for chance encounters
It’s Not Easy Being Greene
I suppose there are a lot of expectations that people have when one’s last name is Green or Greene. After all, green is one of the most descriptive adjectives and theoretically positive words in the English language. Green means go. There is usually an association with movement. Green is the color of money. There is
Dumb? These Dum-Dums?
The story you are about to read is true. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. since no one named is. Monday, April 3rd, 4:27 a.m. It was unseasonably cool in Los Angeles. As I tend to do at that time of the day, I was doomscrolling through my overnight e-mails and alerts
Combat Sports Build An Impressive Media Entourage
The news wasn’t unexpected, given that it was teased relentlessly by media “leaks” over the weekend, while thousands of enthusiasts and media execs convened at SoFi Stadium in finally sunny Los Angeles for one of the preeminent live events of the year. But the impact of the story that broke just a few minutes ago
Write History. Don’t Rewrite It.
I want to go on record that I fully endorse and support the concerns of the talented members of the Writers Guild of America in their battle with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that has led Hollywood, in the centennial year of its iconic sign and two of its largest studios, Warner
There’s No Fool Like This April Fool
Maybe you’re in a frame of mind to live up the promise of this day, but I’m nowhere near that jovial. In fact, I’m feeling far more like a fool than ever. If I’m to believe the urban myth that CNBC18.com attributes the origins of April Fools Day to, I guess I have to thank,
Perp And Circumstance?
I can’t escape it. No matter where I turn to escape my severe real-life worries (it’s the end of the month, and rent is due again), all I seem to see is reaction and overreaction to an indictment of some old horndog that went down yesterday in New York. My Facebook friends, many of whom
Take Us Out Of The Bore Game?
It’s major league baseball’s opening day, and I couldn’t be more excited, Appropriately, one of the first two games of a rare opening day where all 30 teams are scheduled will be at Yankee Stadium, whose original iteration across the Bronx’s River Avenue first opened 100 years ago. The teams that will play, the Giants