Showbiz Show 7/29/16
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Colin Jeffrey and I reviewed three movies: "Jason Bourne," "Cafe Society," and "Life, Animated." We also discussed "Bad Moms," "Nerve," a new season of "Black Mirror" coming to Netflix this fall, and a bonus for Beatles...
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I've been enjoying "Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter," a Sundance series in which Lacey Rose, senior television reporter for that trade magazine, has a roundtable conversation with a half-dozen actors, directors, or showrunners to talk about their respective TV...
What Ailes You
Several of the male personalities at Fox News -- Brit Hume, Chris Wallace, Geraldo Rivera -- were sad to see Roger Ailes ousted, and had nothing but praise for him last week in the heat of sexual harassment allegations brought by Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and...
A Bullshit Rule
On Thursday night, when Jon Stewart did a desk piece bashing Fox News from Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" desk, he uttered the phrase, "I see your bullshit." CBS bleeped the last word, but any viewer could see what he was saying. Colbert, who was perched under the...
Showbiz Show 7/22/16
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Colin Jeffrey and I reviewed five movies: "Lights Out," "Star Trek Beyond," "Ice Age: Collision Course," "Captain Fantastic," and "Hunt For The Wilderpeople." We also discussed the late Garry Marshall, and I recommended...
We’ve Seen That Before
Wow, it didn't take long for media outlets to discover that portions of Melania Trump's speech tonight were plagiarized from Michele Obama's speech at the 2008 Democrat convention. That's probably not what her husband intended when he made his WWE-like...
The Colbert Return
Stephen Colbert is doing his show live this week and next to cover the conventions in a way he couldn't if they taped the show before each evening's festivities took place. On tonight's show, Jon Stewart appeared and did nothing more than a couple of spit takes, which...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Dan Rather says if he had the opportunity to sit down with Donald Trump and Mike Pence (as Lesley Stahl did last night on "60 Minutes"), one of the questions he would ask is, "Do you believe in evolution?" It is long past time that we inject science into the national...