As predicted here, animal rights groups are using the attack on Roy in their campaign to stop animals from being used in performing sitiations. Here's an article that will tell you about a recent charge and the denial. Also: I told a story about a magician I worked with named Mark Kalin who used a […]
The Siegfried and Roy show in Las Vegas is apparently history now. For those of you who never saw it, trust me: It was odd. There was a certain self-adoration about it that I found excessive, especially considering how little Siegfried and Roy themselves did in the show. When you get to that scale of […]
The TV series Wild Card has a Halloween episode written by Len Wein and Marv Wolfman. Consult, as they say, your local listings. […]
Tomorrow night, we set the clocks back, meaning that all the TV channels have to stick in an extra hour of programming. Game Show Network is inserting an episode of To Tell the Truth and another of He Said, She Said. The latter was a silly, short-lived show hosted by Joe Garagiola that later morphed […]
Folks are writing to ask me to explain a little bit more about the award I received last night. This press release pretty much includes all I know about it. […]
The other day, I linked to a website that made a strong argument in favor of saving the life of Terri Schiavo. Here, we have a strong argument the other way. I don't know what to think except that this is turning into The Jerry Springer Show, and that's not where this kind of issue […]
So that's me receiving the award last evening from the Writers Guild's Animation Writers Caucus. The amazing Gary Owens presented it…and if you've never met Gary, you should know this about him: He is a wonderful role model because he is truly one of the nicest men on this planet and he just plain works […]
Looks like I'm not going to win my bet about Donald Rumsfeld changing jobs this week. But as Fred Kaplan notes, someone's got a lot of explaining to do. […]
Nick Cardy is one of the great comic book illustrators of all time. Has anyone ever drawn a handsomer hero than his Aquaman? A sexier heroine than his Wonder Girl? I think not. If you doubt me, you can see many examples of Nick's fine work over at his website. Nick turned 83 a few […]
Michael Kinsley describes what seems like a great reason for his personal dislike of George W. Bush. […]
Here's a story that was posted today in a weblog staffed by reporters for The Dallas Morning-News. The direct link to the story is here but since their site has a lot of link glitches, I'm going to post it in full. It's by a writer named Jim Frisinger… Fox News loves lawyers all right. […]
Ronald Brownstein on something that I think is necessary and inevitable in this country: Universal Health Coverage. […]
Today's Daily Variety has an article about this award I'm receiving from the Writers Guild tonight. It's in the subscription-only area of their website and I don't feel like quoting it here, but I was amazed to read the first sentence and discover an interesting fact about myself. In my stock bio which I furnished […]
Traffic at this site is way, way up to the point where I have been exceeding my allotted bandwidth and the hosting service has started to charge me more money. I am therefore making another of those shameless suggestions that you either send me some money via PayPal or place your Amazon purchases through one […]
People in show business love to tell certain kinds of stories that are true (or "sorta true") in order to explain how the field works. Fred "Rerun" Berry, who just died at age 52, starred in the TV show, What's Happening?, and in two separate series of show business stories. Some of the stories were […]