Good Night, ABC! TV Tabloid Empress Packs Up and Leaves

On the desk in Shelley Ross’s soon-to-be former office—room 911, not incidentally, at ABC headquarters on 66th Street—is a photograph in a black leather Gucci frame of Ms. Ross, Charles Manson and future Fox News Channel chairman and C.E.O. Roger Ailes.

Ms. Ross was 28 at the time the picture was taken, in June 1981, Read More

Good Night, ABC! TV Tabloid Empress Packs Up and Leaves

On the desk in Shelley Ross’s soon-to-be former office—room 911, not incidentally, at ABC headquarters on 66th Street—is a photograph in a black leather Gucci frame of Ms. Ross, Charles Manson and future Fox News Channel chairman and C.E.O. Roger Ailes.

Ms. Ross was 28 at the time the picture was taken, in June Read More

Quirky Jerry Seinfeld Guilty in Nanny Murder?

So I get a call from a producer on the Today show who wanted to know if I was willing to be interviewed for a segment they were doing on Seinfeld mania, Jerry hysteria, in the run-up to the final episode. I was, needless to say, supposed to be the Dissenting Voice, a role I’m Read More