This comes under the category of "Someone's gotta say it." To me, the saddest part of the whole tale of the Dan Rather and the bogus letters is not that CBS News was embarrassed. I think every major news outlet ought to be embarrassed about a number of things they've proffered as legit the last […]
Tom Lammers writes (and I am grateful to him for this data)… The Atlas globe logo appeared on the cover while Goodman's books were still distributed by Kable News. The Atlas globe logo was added to covers beginning with the November 1951 issues. Kable News' "K" logo and the North American map that symbolized the […]
Before Marvel Comics was Marvel Comics, it was a company of many monikers. A man named Martin Goodman owned it, though he had some of its components in his wife's name. In the early forties, most of its publications were the output of Timely Publications. Eventually, for some obscure legal reason, Goodman's comics were published […]
Darren Margolis writes… Mark, it seems that the Nation article (and you probably should have disclosed for the benefit of most people who don't know that The Nation is a very far left viewpoint magazine) is misleading in saying that Ashcroft is 0 for 5000. That implies that all 5000 have actually been tried and […]
Filmmaker Russ Meyer left us with only one regret: That he didn't die from being crushed to death by a pair of enormous breasts. […]
Here's an excerpt from an article about the wonderful job the Attorney General has been doing in prosecuting terrorists…and then I have a couple of questions. On September 2 a federal judge in Detroit threw out the only jury conviction the Justice Department has obtained on a terrorism charge since 9/11. [snip…] Until that reversal, […]
John Kerry gave a pretty good speech this morning. If he could give a few dozen more just like it, no one would ever accuse him of being vague on issues or flip-flopping or of not having real plans as to what he'd do as our Chief Exec. You can read the text of it […]
Michael Tomasky makes what I think is an important point: That the U.S. is not that divided on the subject of the Vietnam War. […]
Assignments — some even of the paying variety — have me waaaay backlogged on e-mail. (What is he working on? All sorts of things but the main one will probably be announced in the Hollywood trade papers within a week or three.) Anyway, this is another one of those pathetic, irresponsible postings to tell you […]
Harvey Pekar and Gary Dumm have done a little comic strip for the New York Times about the making of Brooklyn: The Musical, which is arriving on Broadway. The link to this is a little tricky so if this doesn't work, go to the Times theater page and look around for it. […]
I haven't seen a copy yet but Gary Owens tells me there's a nice mention of me in his autobiography…reason enough to plug How to Make a Million Dollars with Your Voice (Or Lose Your Tonsils Trying), which has just been released. Gary is one of the nicest, most talented gents in the business…and busiest. […]
Since he went on the air, I've been listening to Al Franken's radio show. It isn't back on the air in Los Angeles but one can hear it streaming via the Air America website or, even better, this website archives the old shows for download. I had not expected to like the show since I've […]
Over the last year or so, I became unhappy with my cellphone, which was a Sony Ericsson 310. Sound was okay but controls were clunky and I couldn't hook it up to my computer and transfer my phonebook into it, nor did there seem to be a good car kit so I could use it […]
I meant to link to this the other day and forgot. Elizabeth Drew reviews The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. […]
On Friday, September 3 on his Fox TV show, Bill O'Reilly went to the mailbag and read a missive from an alleged viewer… Jack Mehoffer, Springfield, Massachusetts says, "O'Reilly, I see the new Fox definition of fair and balanced means interviewing DNC chief Terry McAuliffe at both conventions." Well, right you are, Mr. Mehoffer. Newt […]