Sunday, October 26, 2003

A New Policy

I am instituting a new policy for my personal e-mail. Along with messages that want me to send my life savings to Nigeria or take pills guaranteed to shrink or grow certain body parts, I am ignoring most (i.e., 99%) of the mail that wishes to engage me in political debate. Every time I post something controversial here, I get a batch of rebuttals that range from the thoughtful and interesting to those that seem to lack a certain fundamental reading comprehension. I can only spare so much time writing things other than my professional assignments and I'd rather spend it on stuff for this board, which thousands read every hour, than discussing abortion or gun control or Iraq with one person. So I'm going to stop answering them, and I've even stopped reading them all. If you want to send me a link to an article you think I should read or mention here, great. But I'm too far behind on my e-mail to reply to messages from folks who want to go one-on-one in e-mail. Thank you.

• Posted at 5:24 PM · LINK

Request Filled

Thanks to all of you who've volunteered to send me last night's To Tell the Truth. I have arranged to get a copy.

• Posted at 11:03 AM · LINK

Public Appeals

As I mentioned here, Game Show Network scheduled an episode of To Tell the Truth this morning — one that had Bill Hanna on it. I warned you we might have to guess exactly when it was on...and I guessed wrong and missed it. Anyone out there get it? Anyone out there get it who's willing to dub me off a tape?

Also, does anyone reading this have a copy lying around of last Thursday's Hollywood Reporter? The one for October 23? It had the item in it about that award I won and I didn't bother to pick up a copy. I forgot I have a mother who will be heartbroken if she doesn't get a copy.

By the way: At my request, Daily Variety's going to run a correction that will say I didn't win those three Emmy Awards they erroneously bestowed upon me. I hope it doesn't look like I claimed I'd won them and they're catching my error.

• Posted at 12:12 AM · LINK