They Gave What To Who?
Like many people, I was surprised the Nobel Prize For Literature went to Bob Dylan -- not because his lyrics don't qualify as literature (they do, as much as any other poetry that's not set to music), but because I didn't know the Nobel committee gave out lifetime...
Showbiz Show 10/14/16
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Colin Jeffrey and I reviewed Ben Affleck in "The Accountant." We also discussed the TruTV series "Adam Ruins Everything," the new Christopher Guest Netflix movie "Mascots," and why "The Amazing Race" isn't on CBS this fall....
Todd Robbins, “True Nightmares”
Todd Robbins returned to my show today to talk about the second season of "True Nightmares," the show he hosts on Investigation Discovery (ID). It includes dramatic re-creations of real stories about grave robbers, mysterious murders, and other dark and twisted crimes...
Showbiz Show 10/7/16
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Colin Jeffrey and I reviewed "Denial," "The Girl On The Train," and "Birth Of A Nation." We also discussed the next movie from Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg ("Patriots Day"), the upcoming all-female "Ocean's 8," and more....
Trump’s Taxes
"SNL" got big numbers with its season premiere, which featured Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton debating Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump. McKinnon was great, as always, and Baldwin was fine, but I'm surprised Lorne Michaels made the decision not to have Darrell Hammond do...
Showbiz Show 9/30/16
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Colin Jeffrey and I reviewed "Deepwater Horizon," "Masterminds," "The Magnificent Seven," and "Queen of Katwe." We also discussed "SNL" replacing Darrell Hammond with Alec Baldwin to do Donald Trump, "Designated Survivor,"...
Designated Survivor
I liked the first episode of ABC's "Designated Survivor," in which Kiefer Sutherland plays Tom Kirkman, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who suddenly becomes President after everyone else above him in the line of succession is killed when the US Capitol...
My Day With June Foray
June Foray, the most famous female voice artist of all time -- check her Wikipedia page to see the astounding number of characters she's played since she started in 1937! -- turned 99 years old yesterday. My friend Mark Evanier, who has known June for a long time (and...