Lizz Winstead was having brunch in the Noho Star on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4, wearing a Hüsker Dü T-shirt. Slight and fierce, with a tinge of gray at the roots of her curly, brownish-blond hair, she was talking about her career in comedy and the prospects for Central Air, the soon-to-debut left-wing talk-radio network for Read More
“I’m not very good at talking to people that I don’t know, which sounds weird. I’m not really into that whole artificial-conversation thing,” said Damien Fahey, 24. It was Wednesday, Nov. 17, and Mr. Fahey’s 6-foot-2 frame was folded into a booth at John’s Pizzeria in Hell’s Kitchen, not far from his 18-by-12-foot studio apartment. Read More
Lizz Winstead was having brunch in the Noho Star on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4, wearing a Hüsker Dü T-shirt. Slight and fierce, with a tinge of gray at the roots of her curly, brownish-blond hair, she was talking about her career in comedy and the prospects for Central Air, the soon-to-debut left-wing talk-radio network for Read More
“Am I boring you?” asked Craig Kilborn for the third time. “Is this going well? Is this boring you?”
It was Friday, Dec. 5, and Mr. Kilborn was joking again: He didn’t really care. At 2 p.m., the host of The Late Late Show on CBS was sitting in the Halcyon restaurant at the Rihga Read More
Wednesday, Feb. 21
Once upon a time (well, spring 1999), there was a smart aleck named Craig Kilborn who got a job hosting The Late Late Show on CBS, beating out another smart aleck named Jon Stewart.
That was seen as a big whooping victory for Mr. Kilborn, since his rival had been Read More
Wednesday, Mar. 15
Somebody over at CBS was angry enough over Craig Kilborn’s Feb. 29 interview of Jesse Jackson on The Late Late Show that they sent NYTV an official CBS copy of the show in a plain brown envelope, with a Post-It affixed to the cassette, reading: “Jesse Jackson interview: an atrocity!”
Mr. Read More
Wednesday June 2
His ratings may be small, but Craiggers is going to be making big money for CBS, according to advertisers.
Since replacing Tom Snyder as host of The Late Late Show , Craig Kilborn has drawn about the same number of viewers as his predecessor–about 1.4 million, which puts the show in Read More
Wednesday, March 31
Program title of the week: Angry Beavers . [Nickelodeon, 6, 2 P.M.]
Thursday, April 1
“Where should we put the Urine Guy?” a Court TV producer asked Lizz Winstead, the creator of the network’s new show Snap Judgment . “Should we put him with the Marijuana Legalization Guy?” The Urine 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
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
The first time I saw Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Howard Hawks’ delirious 1938 screwball romantic comedy Bringing Up Baby [Saturday, May 16, TCM, 82, 1 P.M.] , I was pretty sure it was the wildest, most outrageously funny talking picture I had ever seen. To make Read More
