Using our voices instead of our fingers to get information from search providers and elsewhere is becoming more and more common. I recently bought an Amazon Alexa and am amazed at how good it is at voice recognition. I rarely have to repeat myself, and the response is nearly instantaneous. Google’s voice search is also […]
Last week, I wrote about podcasts and TV shows that feature long-form one-on-one interviews, with hosts like David Letterman, Mark Maron, Scott Feinberg, Kevin Pollak, and others. This week, we have a new entry in the genre. Sunday night, after the Oscars telecast finally ended, and ABC cut away so its local stations could do […]
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney absolutely crushed it as hosts of last night’s Spirit Awards, a ceremony always held the day before the Oscars to honor people who make independent movies. Their opening monologue had me laughing out loud, with some very clever stuff about the nominees, and lots of #MeToo material about Brett Ratner, […]
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and especially like hosts who do long form interviews. Mark Maron, Kevin Pollak, and Scott Feinberg are some of my favorites. Maron wants to delve into the guest’s psyche, Pollak mines for comedy gold, and Feinberg steers through careers, often eliciting stories about long-forgotten projects. When they ask […]
An oral history by The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg of last year’s Oscars screw-up, when the wrong winner for Best Picture was announced.
I haven’t had much to say about the mass murder last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, because I didn’t think I could offer anything different than what lots of other people have already said. But today I have several rebuttals to the gun-lovers who refuse to admit that it’s the […]