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The Last Of Its Kind?
Sure, plenty of TV shows have gotten cancelled in 2024, and many more arguably deserved to be. But to me, there were few that will–or should–be as fondly remembered as BLUE BLOODS. If you’re not of a certain vintage or have an appreciation for good old-fashioned procedural cop dramas, you’re probably not someone who’s all

An Alternative Universe Choice For Person Of The Year?
Depending upon what side of the political aisle you may be on, you either cheered or threw up in your mouth when you may have come across the image and story that the world first learned of Wednesday morning, via such sources as POLITICO’s Meredith McGraw: Donald Trump is expected to be named Time magazine’s

Hey, First Buddy. Here’s A Far Better Tire For You To Kick
MEMO TO: ELON MUSK, Founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc. Owner, CTO and executive chairman of X (formerly Twitter) President of the Musk Foundation Founder of The Boring Company, X Corp., and xAI Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, Zip2, and X.com (part of PayPal) Co-Chair of the Department of Government Efficiency FR: STEVE LEBLANG, MEDIA CONSULTANT, SL MEDIA ENTERPRISES RE: POTENTIAL “TRADITIONAL

It’s R & D & Q & A. Why Wouldn’t I Be There?
Two nights in a row where I actually had both the resources and invitations to get out on the town. If you’re surprised. you’re not alone. The rate things have gone for me of late, I’m actually in a bit of a state of shock. Then again, it’s not every day when the most popular

Sklarvelous!
When a friend who just happens to be a genius schleps across the country to buy you a drink, you drop what you’re doing and make sure you take them up on it. At least that’s my mindset these days. Once we get ten days into a month, I’ll take any offer for any sustinence

Looking For Answers, UHC? Start With Three Words.
One of the more colorful–literally–peddlers of content I’ve ever dealt with was a glib silver-maned salesman who insisted his “friends” refer to him as “The Colonel”. He supposedly was a war veteran, but you wouldn’t know it from his garish fashion choices–almost always preferring light-colored sweater vests to dark suit jackets. Among the titles he

Comeback “Player” Of The Year?
I’m particularly gratified these days when people are genuinely surprised when they find out my actual age. I take particular pride in how I’ve been able to physically retool myself enough that the photograph on my driver’s license, now nearly a decade old, looks absolutely nothing like how I do now and people–even the most

The Master Mensch Of Child’s Play
I’m at a life stage where unfortunately when I get private outreaches from friends/fans it often isn’t good news. It’s not that we necessarily obsess about death per se; it’s just the reality that many of the folks who helped shaped our career paths and in many cases were directly responsible for the quality of

Shouldn’t Making Original Television Be As Easy As ABC?
It hasn’t exactly been a bellweather season so far for ABC, even by the minimalist standards one needs to apply to broadcast television in this day and age. A quick glance at a season-to-date ranker dropped last month by TV LINE’s Matt Webb Mitovich reveals that the Alphabet network (there’s your token reference worthy of