As many of you know, I've been the Voice Director on a lot of cartoon shows. Because of that, Tom Hancock sent me this question… I was listening to one of Jim Cummings' podcasts. (These are wonderful, BTW) He had on Bill Farmer and Rob Paulsen and they were reminiscing about all the fun that […]
Fact-Check.org tackles Trump's premise that when there's good financial news, he gets all the credit and when there's bad financial news, Joe Biden gets all the blame. Needless to say, this is a skewed viewpoint. Trump says the U.S. doesn't do much business with Canada. Daniel Dale of CNN says Canada is the largest customer […]
Looks like Randy Rainbow. Sounds like Randy Rainbow. Sings like Randy Rainbow. Must be Randy Rainbow… […]
Dave Marron wrote to ask… What do you think Mr. Hanna and Mr. Barbera would've thought about the updating (sexual and otherwise) of the Scoobies? Ordinarily, I'm leery of questions that involve mind-reading, especially mind-reading of the deceased. But in this case, I talked to Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera enough about this topic when […]
Trump continues to make up phony gas prices to claim success in lowering them. And his special envoy to sort out the Russia-Ukraine War is Steve Witkoff. Mr. Witkoff is now touting a bogus referendum to argue that the people in Crimea and other Russian-seized regions would rather be citizens of Russia. […]
Read More… from FACT CHECK: Phony Gas Prices and Phony Referendums
John Oliver last night — another pretty important takedown of an outrage being perpetrated in our country… […]
Donald Trump is interviewed on Meet the Press and gets an awful lot of things wrong. You get the idea this man thinks that if anyone tells him something that sounds good, it isn't a lie to repeat it and insist it's so? If anyone ever tells me I'm the best writer in the business, […]
As you may be aware, I had three separate trips to a hospital in the last few weeks — one because of a gallstone attack, one to have my gallbladder removed and one to deal with some unexpected complications from the surgery and/or the tests I had on the first visit. The first visit, I […]
Nathan Lane receives the 2024 Sondheim Award which honors those who have made important contributions to the performance and preservation of the works of Mr. S. Sondheim… […]
My favorite Southern California restaurateur, Robert J. "Bob" Morris died peacefully at his home on April 13, 2025. Morris was kind of a "Johnny Appleseed" of restaurants, opening them and then moving on to open others. The places he left behind him — which included the original Gladstone's, The Jetty, RJ's the Rib Joint (in […]
Here's Tony Nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers, who has the title role in Boop! The Musical. She's recording a song from the show…well, probably pretending to record a song from the show for this video. The way they usually make these is to record the song and then have the performer(s) lip-sync to the track a […]
Trump has bragged to having made "200 deals" on trade and tariffs in a recent interview but as Rolling Stone notes, when pressed for details, two members of his cabinet couldn't name a single country that has agreed to one. And Steve Benen of The Maddow Blog explains the basic lameness of Trump's attempts to […]
The Tony nominations were announced yesterday and as someone who hasn't set foot in New York since 2018, I don't have any particular faves or rooting interest. But — my lower extremities permitting — I expect to be back there before 2025 is out and among the shows I'm curious to see is Boop! The […]
Attorney General Pam Bondi is claiming that in the first hundred days of this new Trump regime, agents have seized so many illegal fentanyl shipments that they've saved more than 75% of the U.S. population from a fentanyl-related death. I dunno about you but if any fentanyl came anywhere near me, I'd certainly be a […]
I woke up this morning wanting to write more about the gala opening night of the new Jack Kirby Exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center here in Los Angeles. I'm still feeling a warm glow from just setting foot in the place…being surrounded by all that Jack Kirby artwork, all those memories of that wonderful […]