Bristol Palin lecturing us about marriage is like…well, like Bristol Palin lecturing us about marriage. Jokes are no longer necessary. 18:13:46 From now on, every time I see someone with a bad haircut, I'm going to say, "Hey, who's your stylist? Mitt Romney?" 18:16:55 Today's potatoes are from Tibbits Farm in Sugar City, ID and […]
Here's about a half-hour of Stephen Sondheim being interviewed. The person who posted this to YouTube didn't explain what this is but I think it's material that was recorded for that big TV documentary about Hal Prince last year. It's interesting but some of the segments are out of sequence so it jumps around. If […]
Here's a long portrait of Arizona's Joe Arpaio, the self-described "America's Toughest Sheriff." In his case, "tough" seems to include a heavy dose of racism and a presumption that anyone who gets arrested for anything is surely guilty and should be treated like dirt. The whole thing is interesting if not appalling but I was […]
David Frum on what this election will be about. He thinks it's not the economy, stupid. And hey, I haven't seen anybody mention this but is this the first U.S. Presidential Election — or at least the first in a very long time — when neither candidate of the major parties had any military experience […]
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These articles about Mitt Romney's alleged bullying annoy me. I want Romney to lose but I don't think anything that's dredged up that might cost him votes is fair game or even fair, period. Even assuming the past behavior is accurately described — which it may not be — people change. They outgrow past assholishness. […]
I don't write much here about professional-type things I'm working on but every so often, the e-mailed questions pile up to the point there I figure it will save me time to do one of these… We've started production on Season Four of The Garfield Show, an animated series of which I am the Supervising […]
Since there's nothing else to look at on the Internet today, you might like to watch seven minutes of Dean Martin with Don Knotts. This is from before Don had even become Barney Fife. It's a 1960 Dean Martin TV special… […]
Nice to see Obama get that all-important Betty White endorsement. Romney's probably taking Abe Vigoda out to dinner tonight. 13:20:03 […]
Mort Sahl — there's a name from the past — is doing a live webcast answering questions submitted over the 'net. It's on Tuesday, May 15 at 9 PM my time, Midnight in the east. Here's the link if you want to get in on it in any way. […]
Speaking of the man as I was a moment ago, he's one of those performers I always thought was truly classy and bright in a real way…as opposed to the way some non-classy folks manage to come off well on TV thanks to judicious handling, TelePrompters and support from Writers Guild members. I only met […]
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Dick Cavett writes about his experiences as a celeb on what started life as The $10,000 Pyramid and escalated, as all amounts of money that are not your income seem to do, towards higher amounts. Mr. Cavett was a fine player of that game. He apparently did not have to "audition" to be on it […]
The recent New York production of Follies is now playing down at the Ahmanson Theater here in Los Angeles and I'm seeing it in a week or two. If I didn't already have the cast album, I could get a little free audio preview by listening to the five songs from it that are available […]
Jimmy Durante selling cereal. I could watch this guy doing anything… […]