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I was once as much of an unapologetic Aaron Sorkin supporter as anyone.  Between the riveting dialogue and seminal casting of A FEW GOOD MEN, the hypnotic walk-and-talk and almost idyllic version of the White House captured in THE WEST WING and the brilliantly sardonic and spot-on lens on TV journalism that was offered in

I actually don’t envy people who feel the need to get so worked up over something as relatively inconsequential as a television show.  I grew up a game show geek myself/  I spent decades working with exceptionally talented people who create and produce them, and I will readily admit I’m still a viewer and a

Next weekend at an overly priced neighborhood restaurant in Bayside, Queens a few dozen folks from my high school will reconvene for a milestone reunion.  It was supposed to be a mashup of my graduating class and the one preceding it, but as it turned out it became heavily skewed toward the latter and the

I’ve tried to do a lot of different things in recent years that I hadn’t even dared to attempt, some of them willingly.  For a very brief period of time I was coerced into taking salsa lessons from a friend who seemed to get a lot of personal pleasure from it and thought it could

Regular readers might already be aware that I am a slave to numbers.  Decades of working with them in companies that claim to use them for accountability and decision-making sort of ingrained that in my psyche for perpetuity.  There was once a time when the media that covered and promoted them would regularly use them

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a seminal event as crucial as the autumnal equinox itself called Fall Premiere Week.  Three networks that accounted for more than three-quarters of all television viewing would cobble together a carefully crafted and debated schedule chock full of newly debuting comedies and dramas and