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AOC Ya Down The Road, Kid
To some of you, there’s no getting around one indisputable fact. By certain standards, I’m old. Forget how I believe I tend to think, which is often through the lens of how someone else thinks. Decades of training listening objectively to people in thousands of focus groups and disseminating reams of survey information from all
End Of The Road(show)?
The story of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group will someday soon make for some interesting subject matter for some advanced media strategy seminar at some university. I oughta know, since when the most recent iteration of it was being put together I actually spent an entire class using it as a prime example of how to
Seems Like A Lot Of Folks Want To Be A (Number) 69.
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, TheDoubleOvertime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on technology. Degenerate gamblers and lucky office workers (assuming you’re actually one of those unfortunates who are grudgingly trucking into one these days) can rejoice. It’s officially March Madness season,
What Did Y’All Expect? It’s Called Snow WHITE.
After another week of stormy weather, it was a picture postcard Saturday afternoon in Hollywood yesterday, and it should have been cause for celebration for those attached to Disney. They were finally premiering, after years of preparation and production and delays which they ascribe to the writer’s strike, a live-action adaptation of the movie that
Some Ado About Something? Not This Much, Sharon.
Sharon Waxman, the founder and publisher of THE WRAP, is one of the stronger voices remaining in the world of entertainment media, ready to take a stand on anything she determines may be undermining business or country. And she seems to have some very positive qualities. For one, she has no affiliation with any Penske
Not Everybody’s Live, John. Until They Have A Reason To Be.
Ever since streaming services reached critical mass I’ve advocated for the technology to take full advantage of its potential to offer someone the unvarnished potential of a live, nightly pulpit for something other than a politically skewed newscast. But whenever those who had access to actual data would evaluate the proposition it inevitably pointed to
Face (Of) The (MAGA) Nation?
His name is Brian Glenn, and if you didn’t immediately recognize that name a couple of months ago, then consider yourself more grounded than you may have thought. Lately, it seems he’s becoming a lot more visible and prominent, if for no other reason than mainstream media can’t stop introducing us to him. Glenn’s real
Hey, “Hitmakers”. Be Thankful ABC Didn’t Buy Your Shows
A fascinating bit of tenacious niggliness was dropped earlier this week by THE ANKLER’s Elaine Low that took a deep dive into what was trumpeted as a big win for striking creatives during the lost summer of 2023. As trade media’s most unapologetic tennis lover framed and reminded her readers: When thousands of writers and
What’s So Funny? You Tell Me
I’m an unapologetic fan of DEADLINE’s Nellie Andreeva; when I persist in giving her the adjective “intrepid”, it’s a compliment. She’s been around long enough for me to have had a few conversations with her, both on and off the record, at the numerous FX parties that would regularly launch seasons of its original scripted