Earlier this year, I lamented that I wouldn’t get to see Bruce Springsteen’s one-man Broadway show because I don’t get back to New York as often as I used to, and the seats were prohibitively expensive. My brother and sister-in-law, who live on the east coast, did get tickets and reported back to me how […]
A friend called me Thursday morning and told me to turn on the Charlie Brennan Show on KMOX, a station I haven’t listened to since parting ways with it almost a decade ago. But my friend told me the guest was a broadcaster who I respect enormously, Bob Costas, so I tuned in. Costas did […]
I don’t recommend the sixth season of “House Of Cards.” The show ran out of steam by its third year, and this final one doesn’t re-energize anything. It plays out as a boring battle for control between new president Claire Hale (Robin Wright) and the brother-sister power duo played by Greg Kinnear and Diane Lane. While […]
If you’ve never heard of Roy Clark (who died yesterday at 85), or only know him from his 24 years hosting “Hee Haw,” watch this to see what a versatile guitarist he was. It’s a montage of clips from a 1975 episode of “The Odd Couple” which was built entirely around him, and gave him […]
As I predicted, the fallout from Megyn Kelly’s “I don’t see what’s wrong with blackface” comments continues. Not only did her own “Today” show colleagues call out her stupidity on the air Wednesday morning, but now guests that were booked on her show (e.g. the cast of “House Of Cards”) have refused to appear with […]
Here’s a wonderful remembrance by Leonard Maltin of his friend James Karen, who I grew up knowing as The Pathmark Man and later Jane Fonda’s boss in “The China Syndrome.” Little did I know that “Jimmy” seemingly acted with or knew everyone in movies and television.