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Life Lessons

Everything Has Its Time. If Not Its Place.

This was supposed to be yet another slow day lament about something that was once was that didn’t quite last.  In this particular case, today is the anniversary of my first wedding, one I don’t often reference since it was far shorter and ultimately less lethal than my second was–or at least could have been. 

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Media Musings

Legally Bland?

I may be older–er, seasoned–but I’m not dead.  And I also have a few guilty pleasures that might surprise you.  One just happens to LEGALLY BLONDE, a now 25-year-old movie that was a hit with pretty much every other demographic quadrant other than the one I actually fell into.  It was a great date movie

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Life Lessons

WAY More Than Just A Pretty Face

Angel Lynn Boris has turned heads pretty much ever since she was born.  One look at her makes it patently easy to see why.  She’s unquestionably beautiful; she doesn’t need you nor I to tell her that.  30 years ago today she got one of the ultimate endorsements of that from way more discerning folk–a

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Media Musings

Anyone Want To Buy A Slightly Used Peacock?

Holiday week, schmoliday week…we’re nearing the end of a fiscal year, so in hindsight it was not a surprise to see this breaking news flood our timelines early yesterday morning, led by the parochial spin from CNBC’s Elsa Ohlen and Lillian Rizzo: Comcast said Monday it plans to spin off its remaining media business into a

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Media Musings

Didja See A Cancelled CBS Late Night Host Is Back?

No, not the one so many of you are still mourning.  But beggars can’t always be choosers. It’s James Corden, you wankers, and unless you’re a true World Cup afficiando you might have overlooked the fact that earlier this month he made a triumphant return to the daypart.  At the time FOX Sports did send

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Media Musings

It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! It’s A Bomb!

It all seemed so positive for the reimagined and revitalized DC Universe and the gang at Warner Brothers just about 12 months ago.  SUPERMAN had been released to strong acclaim and more than $600 million at the worldwide box office.  A quick glance at Wikipedia reminds us exactly how, well, super it all was: It

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Media Musings

My Reaction To Life, Larry And “Unhappiness”? Eh.

Let me remind you that I actually am a fan of Larry David’s.  In case you forgot, I was indeed more than a little wistful when CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM finally ended two Februarys ago, thus closing out an era that had endured for a dozen seasons spread out over nearly a quarter-century.  And I somehow

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News Notions

Do We Really Think THIS Will Play In Peoria?

Being the native New Yorker that I am I couldn’t help but get a little swept up in the torrent of stories that emerged from the New York primaries that were held earlier this week that gleefully announced what was being sold as a blue tsunami.   Just about every national news outlet based in New

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Media Musings

The UnBEARable Lightness Of Being (Transparent)

One of the buzzier series ever set in the work of restauranteuring reaches its expiration date tonight as FX’s THE BEAR drops its fifth and final season.  Those who like and subscribe–and choose to watch–on Hulu will be able to binge-watch the final eight episodes in one marathon setting should Red Bull and/or Ryze allow

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