Michael Jackson must be in trouble. He has Geraldo Rivera on his side. Rivera was a guest the other night with Leno, plugging his weekend exclusive interview with The King of Pop and telling us that Michael is innocent and will be proven so in a court of law. He actually had a nice, civil […]
Michael Kinsley has been thinking about what George W. Bush is thinking about. […]
My buddy Mike Peters made me laugh out loud with this installment of his fabbo newspaper strip, Mother Goose & Grimm. Browse his whole site by going here, and don't miss his latest editorial cartoons. […]
No one has yet sent me a list of what's on Volume III of the Garfield and Friends DVD series. But they've sent it to this site. Somewhere in there, you'll see an episode called "Mistakes Will Happen." If you're ever writing a show like this and you want to really go over budget and […]
Frank Rich on decency standards in the U.S. and the folks who insist that theirs be yours. […]
There's a new theory making the rounds that Deep Throat, the legendary source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, was none other than George Herbert Walker Bush, the former president. The argument for this sounds flimsy, though I suppose it's possible. Pat Buchanan and Henry Kissinger, who are also sometimes mentioned, are in the same […]
Got four minutes to hear a funny phone call? George Noory does a radio show about bizarre subjects, and I don't listen to it but my friend Carolyn sometimes does. Over on his webpage, he has the audio to a message that someone left on an answering machine and…well, like I said. If you've got […]
Time for a theater review. The Reprise! series here in L.A. is doing Pippin, the 1972 Broadway show which starred Bob Fosse's staging. The story has something to do with the son of King Charlemagne, Pippin by name, who tries to find some meaning in life via various means. He tries study and war and […]
This weekend in the overnight slot, NBC is scheduled to rerun the 4/22/78 episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Steve Martin. This is the one often cited as "the best episode ever" of the series. I don't know if it's that or not, but it does include an opening with the Blues Brothers (introduced […]
My old pal Joe Brancatelli informs us which airlines and airports have the best and worst track records, which ones are most likely to lose your luggage, and other things you might like to know. […]
Another comment on the 60 Minutes Wednesday story about Stan Lee. This one's in the Nashville City Paper. […]
The obits for actor John Vernon, who died last Tuesday, all note how deliciously hateful he was as Dean "Double Secret Probation" Wormer in National Lampoon's Animal House. They also note how he had many, many other roles in movies and TV, both in this country and in his native Canada. But only here will […]
For a few weeks now on his show, Jay Leno has been having celebrities autograph a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle to be auctioned off on eBay, with all proceeds going to aid Tsunami victims. I dunno if I think this is a nice gesture or a publicity stunt but bidding just closed, and $800,100 is going […]
If you're in or around Los Angeles, you might be interested in this: Sunday afternoon at 5 PM, the Aero Theater in Santa Monica is running a 70mm print of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. I'm guessing this is the same print that the American Cinematheque group screened at the Egyptian Theater in […]
Cory Strode (here's his weblog) bills himself as "The Best Dressed Man in Comics," which is kind of like claiming to be the most dignified of the Three Stooges. Anyway, he sends an e-mail not unlike several others I've received in the last few hours… You haven't touched on it yet, but when Stan was […]