Here’s the big prediction for the year 2005:
CNN’s paleo-yuppie pundit guy, Tucker Carlson, will jump to MSNBC.
Granted, that’s not a prediction at all! It’s probably already true. On Monday, Dec. 20, the Web was jacked up with the rumor that the right-leaning Crossfire-breather was set to teach MSNBC how to tie one Read More
“My advice to CBS News,” said Larry Gelbart, the TV writer, playwright and comedy master behind the classic CBS program M*A*S*H: “Shut down.”
Here, finally, was an idea for CBS president and chief executive Leslie Moonves, from the man who once wrote about sardonic, wisecracking M.D.’s trying to stanch the bleeding and bring sanity to Read More
One recent evening inside the velveteen cavern of Joe’s Pub on Lafayette Street, a singer called Antony was sitting quietly at a grand piano, before an expectant, sold-out crowd.
An awkward, husky man with alabaster skin, made up in lipstick, a jet-black wig and a foppish Peter Pan cap, he peered into the darkness, listening Read More
“In this business,” said Elizabeth Vargas, the 42-year-old co-anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20, “we’re way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.”
With her almond-hued hair in a wild, off-air frizz, Ms. Vargas was curled up in an easy chair in her dimly lit office, where she Read More
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines, by Bill Hicks. Soft Skull Press, 308 pages, $16.95.
“It’s such a shame that Bill Hicks is dead …. “
“Yeah, we could really use Hicks now more than ever.”
That’s the refrain heard nowadays about the late social critic Bill Hicks, mostly from the fan club Read More
With CBS anchor Dan Rather preparing to vacate his desk in March 2005, the campaign to replace him has been launched. Self-propelling are the network’s two youngish reporters on the verge, John Roberts and Scott Pelley.
Mr. Pelley let his slingshot loose first.
On Monday, Nov. 29, the 47-year-old flak-jacketed correspondent for 60 Read More
“I love this job,” said 73-year-old CBS News anchor Dan Rather on Tuesday, Nov. 23, a few hours after he announced that he would retire as managing editor and anchor of the CBS Evening News, and 41 years and one day after he reported that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, where he Read More
Wednesday, Nov. 17
In the wide, wide political spectrum of cable-news punditry-that is, Beltway Red and Blue, Republican and Democrat-Amy Goodman is a nice shade of shocking pink. She’s a good old-fashioned lefty.
But if you think the 47-year-old host of the liberal radio and TV show Democracy Now! and author of The Exception Read More
”I’m not so sure America knows how to laugh at itself today as it did then,” said Norman Lear, the 82-year-old creator of All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons and Sanford and Son, despite the fact that all those shows were on the air during the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War.
It Read More
In a way, it was like 2000. Nobody knew nothing.
But this time they admitted it. Which caused a little bit of a conflict, since the whole reason they’re there is, they’re supposed to know.
Even by nearly midnight, as Michael McCurry and Karen Hughes, surrogates for Sen. Kerry and President Bush faced off Read More
