The late Jack Benny always claimed to be 39 years old. The U.S. Postal Service is about to raise the price of first-class postage to 39 cents. Don't you think there ought to be a 39-cent Jack Benny stamp? Of course there should be a 39-cent Jack Benny stamp. It goes without saying that there […]
Longtime Hollywood columnist Army Archerd is no longer writing several times a week for Variety but he is doing a weblog on the trade paper's website. Here's a recent entry about Ralph Edwards that expands on the story I told here about how Angie Dickinson refused to be the subject of an episode of This […]
Last night, I linked to a blog entry about an encounter between Jerry Lewis and some protesters. Rogers Cadenhead digs a little deeper into the matter. […]
I don't know where the tradition started but a lot of weblogs can't let a Friday pass without hurling a cat picture at you. I took this one about a week ago in my backyard. We have two stray cats who are nearly identical except that one is not shy about demanding to be fed […]
I am told by my secret spies that the just-taped Tonight Show — the one that airs this evening — is quite wonderful with Jerry Seinfeld delivering a very strong stand-up spot on weddings. Also on the bill is the great Shelley Berman. You might want to set the TiVo. And if you don't have […]
One other thought just popped into the airy open space of my mind, and I thought I'd throw it out here in case anyone else wants to ponder it. The Bush Administration is currently wrestling with two related scandals. One is the whole matter of who leaked the CIA status of Valerie Plame Wilson. The […]
This morning, Congressguy John Murtha (D-PA) gave an emotional speech in which he called for the immediate pullout of U.S. troops in Iraq. Murtha is a Democrat but he's also a highly-decorated veteran with a history of supporting U.S. military action, so his position is not something that can be dismissed lightly. If nothing else, […]
The other day, I put up a birthday salute to Jonathan Winters. A number of people have written or told me that when they saw it, their first thought was, "Oh, no! Jonathan Winters died!" Sorry that you jumped to that conclusion and, yes, I know this site does run a lot of obits. I […]
Every few days, someone writes to ask if I still have a parade of cats, possums and raccoons coming to my back door every night. So here's a photo taken less than fifteen minutes ago. I'm told that a possum living in the city rarely has a life span of over eighteen months so this […]
Jerry Lewis has a bad evening. It's all reported by Will Pfeifer over on his weblog. […]
Here's an example of why Keith Olbermann has become my favorite TV newsguy. You've probably all read about the revelation today that some senior official in the Bush administration "outed" Valerie Plame Wilson to super-reporter Bob Woodward before the time that Lewis "Scooter" Libby is alleged to have told another reporter about her. Almost all […]
Dick Cheney, whose approval rating is two points below cold sores (but still a full point ahead of groin pulls) has joined the "If we were wrong, so was everyone else" crusade. My thinking on this whole issue seems to be evolving to the following rule. I think we should get rid of everyone in […]
The Writers Guild, of which I am a 30 year member, is taking on the issue of Product Placement in movies and TV shows. This is not a new practice. It dates back at least to the 1949 Marx Brothers movie, Love Happy. Assuming you made it to the end of that gobbler, you may […]
I just made a wrong turn at the Washington Post website and discovered Sudoku puzzles. If you're looking for a way to get nothing done for the next few hours, go try one. But don't come whining to me about how addictive they are. […]
Fred Kaplan is as mystified as I am about George W. Bush's new excuse about the pre-war intelligence. […]