Jeff Wallenberg writes… I was intrigued by what you said about never going to audition meetings and being too eager to get the job. Is this because you think that makes you more appealing to producers or because you just don't care that much about any of them? A little of each…and it's also that […]
Louisiana Congressman Jeff Landry claims the Obama administration is granting special waivers to Muslims as they go through TSA screenings at the airport. Except they're not. […]
The Tony Awards are this Sunday. I don't get a sense that even the few folks who are usually interested in who wins are that interested in who wins this time. There's certainly no The Book of Mormon or The Producers kind of runaway hit, nor are most of the acting nominees quite as well-known […]
Matt Taibbi has been asking the question, "Why isn't Wall Street in prison?" He more or less answers that question by explaining how the prosecutors have decided it's too much hassle to go after the Big Guys so they justify their paychecks by going after the Little Guys. This is how too much of our […]
Amazing things invented by Donald Duck…or more accurately, by Carl Barks and Don Rosa. […]
Number two hundred and forty-nine in a series… […]
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Last week here, I mentioned the Broadway show, Beatlemania, in which four gentlemen did an altogether passable job of impersonating John, Paul, George and Ringo. Amazingly in out-of-town tryouts, the cast consisted of actors playing John, Paul, George and Pete Best, and it wasn't until they replaced Pete with Ringo that the show really took […]
Fred Kaplan discusses "America's Sputnik Moment" and why there may never be another. Well, for one thing, we may never again pass anything that involves funding education… […]
Bob Elisberg sent me this. It's the opening of the Drama Desk Awards for 2007 with your host, Kristin Chenoweth. Someone — I dunno who — wrote her a very funny opening number… […]
Ronald Brownstein parses some polls and suggests the following: That white, working-class Americans have a general unfavorable view towards "Obamacare" because the G.O.P. Machine (including Fox News and Rush) has convinced them — wrongly — that it won't do a thing for them, personally. I hope that's not so. I mean, my Business Manager did […]
I don't always link to articles with which I agree. Here's David Frum arguing for the ban on large-size sugary sodas in New York. It seems like a token gesture that won't cause one person to lose a pound to me, and one that creates a bad precedent. But read Frum and see if he […]
Number two hundred and forty-eight in a series… […]
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Back in the seventies, very little was known about the men and occasional women who'd written and drawn "funny animal" comic books for Western Publishing. This was the Dell line of comics and later the Gold Key line. (If you don't know the difference, you need to read this.) Because I was working for Western, […]
The "word" on Richard Dawson, who has died at the age of 79, is that he set out to be Peter Sellers or Jack Lemmon and was frustrated that he wound up being Bill Cullen. He first came to this country as a comic actor — a pretty good one as evidenced by a guest-starring […]
I don't care who Romney picks as running mate. They were both born in Kenya and any birth certificates they show are obvious fakes. 17:20:56 Just filled out my California ballot. Voted yes on the proposition to restrict Drew Carey to one TV series at a time. 22:18:13 Voted no on the proposition to prohibit […]