STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP is right on the verge of being yanked off the schedule, according to several articles I’ve read this afternoon. The verifiable part of these reports is that NBC has ordered three new scripts for the series. Beyond that, the only source for demise-of-the-show news comes from Fox.
It’s true that there [...]

As if it wasn’t easy enough to fill a Chicago TV studio audience, Oprah Winfrey is famous for once in a while taping something to the bottom of the seats. Could be an iPod. Once it was the key to a brand new car. Today, it’s a $1000.
In what Oprah is calling her “favorite giveaway [...]

This audio commentary by Jack Handey is an excellent guide to ensuring that your skeleton, when it is dug up by adventurer/archaeologists five hundred years from now, is scary. Who wants to leave behind a hohum skeleton? And it’s never to early to start planning.
Jack Handey is the mastermind behind SNL’s DEEP THOUGHTS. He was on [...]

Happy Halloween weekend! I was just going to call this post “5 scariest movies”, but you’ll disagree with me on them. Scaryness is a subjective thing, like politics and pornography. What works for one person won’t work for another. But these movies DO work for me, and I don’t scare easy. I haven’t had a [...]

DICK CLARK TO HOST NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN’ EVE AGAIN
Because what says “youth culture” like Dick Clark?
MADONNA APPEARS ON OPRAH
Future guests to include Cher, Zamfir, Rockwell, and Diddy.
SCOTT “DILBERT” ADAMS REGAINS THE ABILITY TO SPEAK
You may not have known he lost it in the first place - he tried to call and tell you! (Whatever - [...]

NBC has announced a radical idea… a two-hour comedy block on Thursday nights! Starting next month, Thursday will look like this: 30 ROCK, SCRUBS, MY NAME IS EARL, THE OFFICE and then, unamusingly, E.R. You may have noticed the glaring absence of the expensive, high-profile TWENTY GOOD YEARS. Yeah, that’s out. Low ratings. I bet [...]

An Open Letter to Kurt Cobain: Dear Kurt, I got some good news and some bad news. Bad news first: you’re dead. Good news, you made more money than any other dead celebrity in the last twelve months. Then again, success didn’t seem to thrill you that much, so I guess it’s all bad news.
Yes, [...]

This past weekend saw the domestic release of MARIE ANTOINETTE, the historical biopic written and directed by Sofia Coppola. I have not seen it myself (it did pretty well and I hate crowds) but from what I’ve read, it’s a sympathetic portrait of the girlish French aristocrat, most famous for her flippant suggestion, upon being [...]

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In todays show: The William Morris moves but doesn’t move… The latest Scarlett Johanssen movie about magicians debuts… and in my commentary, I watch NBC for signs of the end of an era. All this and your chance to see Thomas Dolby surrounded by half-naked [...]

Well, it’s been quite a week for NBC/Universal, a subsidiary of General Electric. Let’s review, shall we? Universal Music Group, fresh from their deal with YouTube to allow users to upload UMG music videos, announced they were going to sue Grouper and Bolt for allowing the same thing. The following day, at the behest of [...]