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Media Musings

At Last, Mariska Hargitay Finds Order, Not Just Law

For anyone who merely knows Mariska Hargitay through the lens of the tough-as-nails and resilient detective Olivia Benson she has portrayed on LAW AND ORDER: SVU for more than a quarter-century, the self-reflective journey she takes us on in the documentary MY MOM JAYNE, released this weekend on(HBO!) MAX, can be a bit jarring.  With

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Life Lessons

Mazel Tov, “Nerd” and “Puta”

So in yet another June wedding Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are finally a legally bound couple.  Whee.  I guess my invitation got lost in the mail.  Just as well; I know I couldn’t have afforded the airfare and judging by what my bank account statement is displaying at the moment (a mere ten digits

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Media Musings

THE BEAR Is Out Of Hibernation. Please Poke It Again.

There’s a really good reason even for binge-averse folks like moi to carve out approximately six hours and fifteen minutes of time over the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer that are now unfolding.  A new season of THE BEAR has dropped on Hulu courtesy of FX and the unquestionably brilliant team of Christopher Storer

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Media Musings

Show’s Over.

Gotta hand it to the marketing mavens at what’s left of Paramount Global.  When they make a mistake, they admit it.  Well, eventually. Pretty much every site dedicated to streamers was abuzz earlier this week with the news of yet another rebranding, including the relatively respectful Charles Pulliam-Moore of THE VERGE: This week Paramount informed

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Media Musings

If He Can Make It There, Can He Make It Anywhere?

It’s already been a hellish summer in New York City by any standard.  They’ve been in the middle of an oppressive heat wave that has temperatures and humidity well into the nineties, and both the Mets and Yankees have been in extended slumps; the Mets’ already costing them first place.  And that’s on top of

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Media Musings

A Bridge Over Troubled Walters

I’m in the demographic sweet spot that was undoubtedly going to click on TELL ME EVERYTHING, the Hulu documentary about the life and career of Barbara Walters that the platform dropped yesterday.   You’ve undoubtedly heard of her given the breadth of her storied career, a six decade juggernaut where she was ever-present in both daytime

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Media Musings

It’s A Good Deal For The French. But Is It A Revolution?

Maybe it was the fact that tens of thousands of really cool and smart people were conducting business meetings at poolside cabanas at Cannes Lions wearing beachwear and flip flops.  Maybe it was the fact that open bars and late night stops at Le Pizza were creating a vibe that put just about anything in

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News Notions

War Games

Well, the Fat-scist-In-Chief up and did it.  On an otherwise slow summer Saturday night the internet reverberated with the reaction to this proclamation of war.  No, it’s not quite up there in quotability as “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, is a date that will live in infamy”.  But it’s patently obviously that anyone who uses the

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Life Lessons

What And Whatnot To Do To Succeed

I’m a fervent believer that the eye test and the “I” test should supercede any and all written articles or testimonies on just about any subject.  What I’ve experienced personally shapes my opinions first and foremost; short of that, if two or more otherwise disconnected people who have had their own personal experience with someone

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