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He’s Earned This Promotion. If You Want To Call It One.
There’s scant few shows of any kind that have had the kind of relative stability than has been seen with NBC NIGHTLY NEWS. When the show was retitiled and shifted to a single anchor after the retirement of the Chet half of the HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT (that would have been Huntley for those not of a
The Whole Studio’s Goin’ Fishing.
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, DoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional coverage of and opinion pieces on technology. When the New York Knicks’ modestly inspiring run at NBA championship glory ended last night for the 52nd consecutive year, they became the latest
Note: Never Leave Anywhere Without Your Picture. It Might Be Your Only Shot.
Yesterday’s news of the passing of Loretta Swit took those that knew her by surprise. When her publicist B. Harlan Boll dropped the news in a Facebook post (yes, he’s a friend) yesterday afternoon he was in the midst of prepping and seeking publicity for a 90th birthday celebration for another of his veteran clients,
Three To Go
It’s amazing how much ability one can have to make one’s way through the logjam of decent streaming TV when one combines a rare day off and a bout of constipation and muscle spasms to go along with one’s seemingly chronic insomnia. But for someone like moi that actually provided me an opportunity to make
Lethargy Unleashed?
The story that VARIETY’s Brian Steinberg dropped yesterday was hardly the biggest one of the day. After all, the Chrisleys are once again free people and all of a sudden that upcoming Lifetime reality series just got a little more promotable. But, hey, at least Lifetime’s producing something original. That’s more than can be said
Generation FX Is Clearly In Charge
Later this week FX will turn 31, which is usually the delineation point that even the most tolerant and liberal parents use to finally concede that someone that old should be self-sufficient–or at least in a position to materially contribute to the family business. It was also born in the same year that was FRIENDS,
Stupid Is As Stupid Does, Redux
My dad come home one night when I first started high school in an atypically upbeat mood. Apparently he had had a private moment with his union shop steward who he would occasionally tag along with to bust bars for illegally serving minors alcohol and his colleague told him that they had been in meetings
For Pee-Wee, Life Was One Big Adventure
I’m not quite in the demographic or psychographic wheelhouse to have grown up with Pee-Wee Herman as a significant part of my life. When his award-winning PEE WEE’S PLAYHOUSE was winning awards and garnering strong ratings for CBS’ Saturday morning lineup in the late 1980s I was already an adult, at least in name only.
Once Again, Only The Best Cannes. Thankfully, Some Of The Worst Cannes-Not.
They put a ribbon–bleu, bien sur–on the 2025 Cannes Film Festival yesterday. As regular readers might have been triggered to remember (I can’t assume you’re as detail-obsessed as moi), I’ve got a thing for the South of France, and in particular the kind of people that get to go there these days. You should be