A note to future studio executives: don’t bother opening movies on Halloween. The box office took a hit last weekend with nearly every movie in the top-five coming in with lower numbers then had been anticipated. This week that should change with the release of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which is expected to pull down Read More
Do you ever get this weird feeling that you contributed in some way to the death of a particular celebrity? For example: There I was, mincing around the Four Seasons in L.A. last April, when I ran smack dab into Bernie Mac, and now he’s dead.
The fabulous and talented Mr. Read More
If it’s true that man only uses 10 percent of his brain capacity at any given time, somebody got short-changed on a pile of swill called Guess Who. This cheesy, brain-dead remake of Stanley Kramer’s 1967 milestone Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner reverses the races, with the spastic Ashton Kutcher in the Sidney Poitier role Read More
Has any industry enjoyed a bigger post–Sept. 11 reprieve than
television? Just four months ago, television as we had known it was presumed to
be in its final lap, gray and limping-staggering-for the home stretch, soon to
be surpassed by delivery via the Internet, by broadband, by service on demand.
So certain we were of Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
