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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

So it was only Thursday the 13th, but it was nevertheless a very unfortunate as well as the first truly hot day of the year.  SAG-AFTRA indeed struck despite aribitration efforts, and in a lunchtime press conference union president Fran Drescher took to the airwaves and delivered one of the most mspiring and passionate extemporaneous

I keep some strange hours of late.  Los Angeles is finally joining a whole lot of the country with a heat wave, and while I’m a bit better off than many (I won’t be experiencing triple digits or ultra-high humidity), the difference is noticeable to me.  My body tends to collapse just after lunch and

One reason I am still so passionate about consumer research is that no matter draconian, desperate and conflated billion dollar companies get about how they try and justify business practices in pursuit of Wall Street cred is that when the end user is finally presented with the option of whether or not they are down

Sixty summers ago, one of the most unlikely songs ever to make #2 on the Billboard charts was a comedy parody called CAMP GRANADA, which chronicled the laments of a city kid who was sent away to a remote summer camp and began to methodically run off a list of all of the diseases and

So a show of hands, please–how many of you found this musing from Twitter? From what I can tell from available analytics, as well as the comments I have received in the more than two years since these musings began, I dare say I’d be looking at something in the single digits–or worse. So I’m