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Groo News

Posted on Monday, September 27, 2004 at 11:56 AM

I haven't seen a copy yet but I'm told that today's Daily Variety has a story about the Groo movie deal I mentioned here last week, complete with a drawing of the stupid barbarian. The press release is up over at Ain't It Cool News. […]

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More on the Shake-Up

Posted on Monday, September 27, 2004 at 11:12 AM

Here's the text of an e-mail sent out today by Jeff Zucker, president of NBC Entertainment. It was addressed to the staff but was obviously intended for public dissemination… Today, we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of our late night franchise "The Tonight Show." Today also marks another important milestone in our great late night […]

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Tonight's Tonight Show

Posted on Monday, September 27, 2004 at 10:46 AM

Tonight's episode of The Tonight Show marks the 50th anniversary of that venerable franchise. There will be clips and surprise guests…and also a very surprising announcement. Everyone had figured that Jay Leno, workhorse that he is, would stay in that job forever, or at least until he'd beaten Mr. Carson's record of a little over […]

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Quick Question

Posted on Monday, September 27, 2004 at 1:37 AM

Hey, wasn't this about the time the Bush Administration was supposed to be rigging oil prices to bring them way down? Well, they'd better get busy. […]

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Playing Catch-Up…

Posted on Monday, September 27, 2004 at 12:47 AM (Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 1:05 PM)

I was so swamped last week that I forgot to mention that I dropped by the gala signing last Wednesday evening for the new Gary Owens book…which, despite what I said here, is not his autobiography. It's a book about how to build a career in the voiceover and announcing business and while it contains […]

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Set the TiVo

Posted on Monday, September 27, 2004 at 12:15 AM

On October 17, John Cleese is hosting a show called John Cleese's Wine for the Confused which, in this online video, he says is on The Food Channel. Mr. Cleese is himself confused since his program is actually on The Food Network…but I intend to watch, anyway. I've never had a drop of wine in […]

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Today's Political Rant

Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 11:04 AM

It's amusing to see all the Kerry and Bush partisans running around, trying to lower expectations for their guy in the coming debates. As I understand it, the idea here is to say, over and over, that your candidate's opponent is a master orator and that it will be a major victory for your candidate […]

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Recommended Reading

Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 8:33 AM

Michael Kinsley discusses whether Osama bin Laden favors Bush or Kerry. […]

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Places To Surf

Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 12:21 AM

You oughta check out Jim Hill Media often because they're always posting some neat article, usually Disney-related. Today, I was interested to read this unofficial review of the new Mary Poppins stage musical that's previewing in the U.K. But I also like all of Floyd Norman's columns on the animation business and Jackson King's pop […]

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Caution: Self-Promotion Ahead!

Posted on Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 6:55 PM (Saturday, March 29, 2014 at 12:21 PM)

I've written hundreds of comic books, some of which I can barely bring myself to look at. You can tell because I signed the misfires with my pseudonym, "Tony Isabella." But if only by sheer luck, some comics turned out well, and the ones that people most often tell me they liked were in the […]

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Recommended Reading

Posted on Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 11:41 AM

We recommend reading Nancy A. Youssef on the topic of civilian casualties in Iraq. Assuming the numbers quoted are accurate, or even close to accurate, we're sure killing a lot of innocent people, including children in this country we're supposedly liberating. But of course, that couldn't possibly increase any hatred of America among the kind […]

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Hollywood Labor Talk

Posted on Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 10:50 AM

The Directors Guild of America has signed a new three-year deal with the AMPTP This dashes the hopes of some that the three "above-the-line" Hollywood labor organizations would negotiate, at more or less the same time and in support of one another, deals that addressed a number of neglected areas, including but not limited to […]

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Long Time, No "C"

Posted on Friday, September 24, 2004 at 10:02 PM

Boy, CBS is really getting no respect these days. The above is a screen capture I just did of an item on Google News. Maybe they oughta just rename the whole network that way. […]

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Recommended Reading

Posted on Friday, September 24, 2004 at 8:47 PM

Ellen Goodman asks the musical question, "How Exactly Are We Safer?" This is a very good question. […]

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The Last Mystery Guest

Posted on Friday, September 24, 2004 at 2:39 PM

Unless they screw around just to annoy us — always a possibility — Game Show Network will broadcast the final network episode of What's My Line? in the wee small hours of tomorrow morning. The program debuted February 2 of 1950 and lasted until September 3, 1967 — an amazing run, especially when you consider […]

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