As spring training turns serious and the Mets and the Yankees limber their hamstrings in the Land of the Pregnant Chad, the sportscaster Keith Olbermann will now clear up a couple of baseball related items:
1. She’s fine.
2. No, he’s not giving it back.
“She” is Mr. Olbermann’s mother, Marie, who was memorably bonked Read More
It’s just past 8 a.m. on the set of ABC’s Good Morning America, and Samantha Finck is crying like a baby. She is a baby–Samantha is one-sixth of three separate sets of Finck twins appearing on the show today–and just minutes to air, she’s wailing so loudly the production assistants jam fingers in their ears. Read More
“ He’s thought out,” Robert Verdi said. “He’s not. He’s not. He’s not.”
It was a gray Monday afternoon, and Mr. Verdi–the shiny-domed stylist, yappy Metro Channel fashion commentator and kill-’em-with-kindness host of the Discovery Channel’s abode-improvement show Surprise by Design–sat on the concrete steps outside the G.M. building at 59th and Fifth. He Read More
You’ve probably seen this guy, Bill O’Reilly. He hosts a show on the Fox News Channel, The O’Reilly Factor. He’s a tall, blue-eyed fellow, and he likes to stir things up. Argues a lot, cuts off his guests. His audience eats it up. A lot of people love Bill O’Reilly, you see. Then again, a Read More
We’re getting out of here-just us ; NYTV will keep on a-chuggin’-and on the way out, we wanted to come up with an ideal finale, maybe not as good as Mary Tyler Moore ‘s, but certainly better than Seinfeld ‘s, or that moronic St. Elsewhere one when the saintly autistic kid looked into the snow Read More
Bob Anderson, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn
“I’m going on vacation overseas. I’m not telling you where.”
Bob Anderson, Marble Hill, the Bronx
“I have no idea. I don’t have any money, so I guess I will stay home. I mind my business. That’s hard to do. Just doing what you’re supposed to do is Read More
“You know, I wanted to be a star,” said Nellie McKay.
It was a Sunday afternoon in May, and Ms. McKay, who is 19, strawberry-blond, button-nosed, dewdrop-lipped, and a startlingly precocious singer-songwriter you should hear from soon, was walking along the bridle path in Central Park. She wore a crisp pink overcoat, shiny black shoes Read More
On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 14, Leslie Moonves, the swaggering chairman and chief executive of CBS, will strut out onto the stage at Carnegie Hall, dressed in an impeccably tailored suit, to oversee the network’s presentation of its upcoming fall schedule to more than 2,800 assorted advertisers, media buyers, agents, executives, Hollywood suck-ups and Read More
Wednesday, May 7
Tonight, May 7, well-known television innovator ( Pop-Up Video ) and nut case Tad Low will host something he’s calling a Private Panty Portrait Party, which sounds like one of those voyeuristic hootenannies you used to read a lot about three or four years ago, when everyone under 35 was still drunk Read More
Wednesday, April 30
By now every television critic, pop-culture theorist, political hack, sociology scholar, professional weight lifter, cabaret singer, shameless gasbag and even Ashleigh Banfield has released an opinion about television news’ coverage of the Iraq war. But we wanted to take the subject to the street-you know, actual, un-focus-grouped TV viewers-so we traipsed on Read More
