Ulysses Everett McGill: Hold on, I don’t want this pomade. I want Dapper Dan.
Pomade Vendor: I don’t carry Dapper Dan, I carry Fop.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I don’t want Fop, goddamn it! I’m a Dapper Dan man!
- dialogue from O Brother, Where Art Thou
It’s strange how things reveal themselves to you - the hidden pattern [...]

It’s not my usual bailiwick to recommend TV shows, but there is one starting up tomorrow you have to check out. And in this dark season of endless reruns, horrible reality shows and a writer’s strike threating to go on indefinitely, the show I’m recommending is not only new (to the U.S.), it’s startlingly original.
“Life [...]

Amy Winehouse, I am sort of ashamed to admit, is my favorite punching bag of late. She is a walking, drinking example of the current sorry state of the music industry.
It wasn’t all that long ago when new and younger musical talent, under contract to a label, were under some serious obligations as to image [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve been on the air, but I have a good explanation.
Our office was burglarized.
In the wee hours of Monday morning two guys broke into our offices and stole stuff. Most of the swag they got were, what I called later, “unintentional decoys:” A busted laptop, a camcorder on it’s last [...]

At this point, the precious raw footage of “Arrangements” has been digitized and sits, cataloged and ready to go, on the editorial platform. There were apparently some delays in delivering continuity notes and footage logs to editorial, but at this point all has been handed over and the editorial process has begun.
I took this moment [...]

Attention ultra-geeks! If you’re an American, you can’t get further up the geek food chain than to be a TORCHWOOD fan. The show is a DOCTOR WHO spinoff (in fact, “torchwood” is an anagram for “doctor who”) which currently airs on the Science Fiction Channel, which you wouldn’t be watching if you weren’t a huge [...]

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In today’s show: yes the writers and producers are talking, no there won’t be any scripts… Borat makes another lawyer happy… and in this week’s commentary; I explore the real genius of Orson Welles – his ability to deflect blame. All this and when [...]

EVEL KNEIVEL DIES AT 69
He failed in his final attempt to jump 12 nurses.
CHINA WINS MISS WORLD TITLE
Country credits success to “putting out the good China.”
REESE WITHERSPOON DECLARED HIGHEST-PAID ACTRESS
Gets royalties any time someone uses the word “spoon”.
“BLACK FRIDAY” MUSIC STORE SALES DISAPPOINTING
Weirdly, MP3 players are just flyin’ off the shelves.
MONTEL WILLIAMS ACCUSED OF THREATENING [...]