My pal Paul Harris does a fine talk radio/interview show Monday through Friday on station KTRS, which is 550 on your dial if you're in or around St. Louis. You can find online audio excerpts of his best celebrity interviews at this site, along with his weblog and lots of other fun stuff. Not long […]
An unannounced walk-on at the end of Mr. Leno's monologue tonight on The Tonight Show. Maybe Jimmy Kimmel can get Gray Davis. […]
By coincidence, my friend Nat Gertler was at the same performance last night of The Producers. His reaction is over here on his weblog. While you're there, browse around the entire 'blog because Nat's a bright guy and a good writer. […]
One way in which the recall seems to have been good for George W. Bush is that it distracted attention from David Kay's report on the hunt for those elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. For months now, one of my conservative friends has been e-mailing me that when that report was in, it […]
Michael Kinsley on "Why Bush Angers Liberals." […]
Interesting, of course, to see everyone spinning the recall verdict in the most positive light for their faction. Depending on which weblog you visit today, it either represents a victory for the conservative movement in California because of how much of the vote Schwarzenegger and McClintock got between them…or a loss because of how many […]
While many of you were watching an Austrian bodybuilder become governor, I was watching a German dictator become the toast of Broadway. An acquaintance asked why I got seats to see the Los Angeles company of The Producers on the evening of Election Day. I had to remind him that when I bought these tickets, […]
Well, the exit polls tell me that I just wasted my time walking close to two miles to and from my polling place. Then again, I did get some exercise. The polling place wasn't crowded, and everyone was joking about chads on the punchcard ballots. One elderly woman was asking for assistance, not because she […]
Here's a pretty interesting article about the comments that got Rush Limbaugh fired from ESPN. (Yeah, I know. He resigned. In TV, when someone quits a good-paying job and doesn't fill the void immediately with a more lucrative one, they were fired or about to be fired.) I don't know from football but it seems […]
Here's an amazing (to me) article over on the Newsweek site. A reporter who has covered the California recall election writes about how bad the coverage has been. […]
Over on Salon, Eric Boehlert makes a very good point about the current downtrend in the popularity of George W. Bush. It's that it started on September 7 when he unveiled the price tag for rebuilding Iraq: $87 billion… Within days of Bush's prime-time address, his approval ratings, and the support for his reconstruction plans […]
I am informed by several folks who seem to know that the Australian DVD release of Hellzapoppin' is region-free but it's also in PAL, meaning that it won't play on most American equipment. If you have a machine that will play PAL format, fine. If not, you'll just have to either buy one of the […]
In an attempt to appease the never-ending demand for Olsen and Johnson movies, Trio is running their 1943 film Crazy House this week and next in multiple airings. And it may take you multiple viewings to figure out all that's going on it, and to savor the amazing supporting cast of comedic actors. The roster […]
I find myself strangely uninterested in the outcome of tomorrow's election. I think the recall is a gimmick form of democracy based on a flukishly bad law. The public should be able to recall elected officials but it shouldn't be this easy. (Have you noticed that absolutely no one outside of California is proposing that […]
A friend currently performing in a Vegas show says that the number one question being asked there is no longer, "Do you want insurance?" but "Have you heard any news about Roy?" Many answers abound, ranging from "It's better than they're reporting" to "It's much, much worse." What seems pretty certain is that the "Siegfried […]