Changing The Movie-Going Experience
I agree 100% with everything Conor Knighton says in this CBS "Sunday Morning" piece about how theater chains are trying to upgrade the movie-going experience, but they're actually making it worse...
My Oscars Tweets
From my Twitter feed during the Oscars... Nice of Lady Gaga to have the exact same tattoos in the same places Julie Andrews had in the original movie version. There are no good roles for women over 40 in Hollywood? Julianne Moore (54) and Patricia Arquette (46) just...
Norm Macdonald and Eddie Murphy
I was never a big Norm MacDonald fan, but I liked his Burt Reynolds impression and was happy to see him reprise it as part of the "Celebrity Jeopardy" skit on SNL's 40th anniversary show Sunday night. What I did not know is that MacDonald wrote the skit with Steve...
The Gaping News Hole
One thing that's not being discussed much in the wake of Brian Williams' exile -- from which I'm not sure he can ever return, as we learn more revelations about his Pinocchio side -- is something those newscasts should have learned from Jon Stewart's "Daily Show."...
In Case You Missed It
From my Twitter feed... Can’t wait to see onetime host Brian Williams on SNL40 remembering being in the Not Ready For Primetime Players. Or was he Tommy Flanagan?
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
In Newsweek, John Walters says something I've been thinking about Jimmy Fallon, who has turned "The Tonight Show" into the biggest late-night party since Arsenio Hall's heyday: Jimmy Fallon is the most versatile talk-show host since Steve Allen. There’s just one thing...
Late Night Ratings
Here's a remarkable graphic from the Wall Street Journal that shows how the audiences for various late night shows have changed over the last five years when it comes to viewers 18-34. Notice how NBC turned things around by dumping Jay Leno and installing Jimmy...
I Won’t Watch Bill Maher Again
Although I've enjoyed some of Bill Maher's act for years, there were parts that drove me crazy, like the way he berates his audience when they don't laugh at one of his lines or, more importantly, his occasional stupidity on anti-science matters. Yet I looked past...