The Hollywood Reporter today has analysis of why Dick Ebersol–the revered head of NBC Sports–resigned his post this week. “There’s a sense that he’s an impetuous, arrogant guy,” an “insider” told THR, one whose small kingdom within the NBC structure, including a devotion to broadcasting the (extremely expensive) Olympics, led to him conflicting with Read More
We’re smack-dab in the middle of those Olympics, and that means we’re up to our eyeballs in guys named Dick. Here, our handy guide to which is which.
Let the games begin!” said Natalie Morales. “O.K., maybe not just yet.”
It was the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 9, three and a half days before the kickoff of the Winter Olympics, and on NBC’s Today the “Countdown to Vancouver” was in full swing. From the slopes of Cypress Mountain, Ms. Morales, in a red Read More
Not long ago, on a Wednesday night in July in Washington, D.C., a veteran NBC News executive producer named David Corvo stood onstage inside the U.S. Capitol visitors center and addressed a room full of several hundred bureaucrats, military staffers, journalists and District gadflies gathered to watch a preview of a new NBC series, called Read More
Wednesday, Sept. 29
It wasn’t easy working for a show like Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place . The big, respected hit-show teams get to swagger around Hollywood as though they had created The Mary Tyler Moore Show or E.R. , but as a Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place guy, Read More
Andy Kaufman Revealed!: Best Friend Tells All , by Bob Zmuda with Matthew Scott Hansen. Little, Brown & Company, 306 pages, $24.
What tender regard we’ve learned to show for the sensitivities of the dead, whom we treat so much more thoughtfully than we do the living. How solicitously we debate the deceased’s preferences concerning Read More
