Wednesday, June 20
You want your New York Times TV! Well, listen here, smarty-pants: Unless corporate America ponies up the big bucks, you ain’t getting it anytime soon.
Late last year, the nation’s Maureen Dowdies and Paul Krugmanoholics were gleefully tapping their Rockports at the prospect of an 11 p.m. New York Times Read More
“Hi, my name is Griffin. You know, the other day I was
walking into a toy store and I saw they had a Jesse Ventura doll, and I was
thinking to myself, ‘If they made a Jesse Ventura doll, are they going to make
other political toys?’”
Griffin Newman, a 12-year-old boy with light Read More
Wednesday 4th
If you’re a young Ivy Leaguer who was always the “class clown,” maybe toiling now for Modernhumorist.com and looking for a job that actually pays money, crash Comedy Central’s 10th Anniversary party tonight. Crash strategy : be male ; three days of face stubble ; ironic corduroy blazer . Whose rumps to smooch: Read More
One thing that you can say about hip-hop these days is that it’s full of drama queens.
It’s not just that Jay-Z (né Shawn Carter) wrangled ubiquitous hits out of Swizz Beatz–produced melodies from the Broadway productions of Annie and Oliver , it’s that he’s taken the Biggie Smalls method of tear-filled, mama-worshipping thuggery Read More
Daniel Kellison, executive producer of The Man Show , pointed to the stacks of boxes filled with baby toys and furniture. “The great emasculation has begun,” he said.
By his wife’s command, the poker room in the Kellisons’ newly refurbished Greenwich Village town house is being dismantled to make way for a playroom for his Read More
Billy Kimball is well known in the television industry for being charming and funny and all that, but he’s also known for having a career that one of his friends described as “erratic.” Now, after more than a dozen years spent bouncing around behind the scenes in TV comedy, he’s getting a shot at the Read More
One of the most gratifying aspects of writing this column over the past
four years or so has been the number and variety of crusades (and feuds)
I’ve had the pleasure of pursuing on behalf of cultural obsessions.
Not all of them have been successful. Books & Company is gone, although
the campaign to save Read More
Wednesday, Feb. 24
After weeks of speculation, NBC News will finally air Lisa Myers’ report about Juanita Broaddrick, the famous Jane Doe No. 5, on tonight’s edition of Dateline NBC . Ms. Broaddrick’s story, which has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post –and repeated ad infinitum by Fox News Channel, Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
In 1980, John Cassavetes wrote and directed, and Columbia Pictures released, an explosive movie John had done everything he could to avoid making, including asking me to direct it instead. Cassavetes, remember, was the brilliantly iconoclastic actor and filmmaker who, more than anyone except Orson Welles, had essentially Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
As questions of morality, ethics and honor in our society become ever more ambiguous, it might be salutary to see an American comedy of the highest order dealing with these troubling issues, made while World War II was daily bringing them in a different way vividly to the Read More
