This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Max and I discussed the impact of the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault, harassment, and rape charges on the women who were his victims and the movies still in the pipeline from his company. Then we reviewed “Marshall,” “Happy Death Day,” “The Foreigner,” and other movie/showbiz stuff. […]
As I started my KTRS show Friday, the NY Times exposé of Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long record of sexual harassment was uppermost on my mind. I was particularly galled by the statement he sent to the newspaper after it published the story. It seemed like he was offering less an apology than a justification, […]
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Max and I reviewed Kate Winslet and Idris Elba in “The Mountain Between Us,” Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in “Blade Runner 2049,” and other movie/showbiz stuff. Listen to our conversation here.
Here’s my conversation with Kathryn Miles, author of “Quakeland: On The Road To America’s Next Devastating Earthquake.” I asked her if we’ve gotten any better at predicting earthquakes, which American cities are most at risk, and whether our infrastructure can handle a big quake. We also discussed the skepticism of midwesterners who remember the panic […]
Long before there was a Funny Bone or a Helium Comedy Club or the Comedy Store or the Comic Strip or Yuk Yuk’s, there was a place in Hell’s Kitchen in New York called The Improv. It was started by Budd Friedman, who I met a couple of years ago when I was in LA […]
A couple of years ago, I read Caitlin Doughty’s book, “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” in which she’d graduated from college with a degree in medieval history and took a job at a crematory, which led to all sorts of odd encounters and bodies of every shape and size. That led her to become a […]