• NBC Hasn’t Done Anything Right for Leno Since 2004

    From making Jay a lame duck to putting Conan in an untenable situation, Jeff Zucker is leading network down road to disaster

  • Compare and Contrast: ‘Avatar’ vs. ‘Ishtar’

    James Cameron’s sci-fi epic is beating the ‘tar out of the much-maligned Morocco-set musical

  • How Tiger Will Redeem Himself: The Playbook

    I know how this here saga is going to unfold from here — and trust me, so do you

  • 10 Reasons Santa Was Made for Hollywood

    For one, he produces none of the actual product but takes all of the credit

  • Re-Name That Film!

    The Title Doctors make house calls armed with what they call “proven proprietary naming methodologies.”

  • Fangs, But No Fangs

    Yes, vampires are popular … but keep them away from me.

  • Enough Already With The Never-Ending Trailers

    There’s no such thing anymore as a mere tease. Every preview gives away everything.

  • Who Needs Friends? I Have Facebook!

    So it’s started to occur to me that I’m spending way too much time on Facebook, and that there appears to be a correlation between my present workload and the propensity to justify the hours spent in the throes of Status Update Fixation and Commentary Mania.   It becomes a sort of social network-as-syringe, addiction…

  • Give George Carlin His Emmy Now!

      If you’re searching for outrages when it comes to the Primetime Emmy Awards, you typically don’t need to look far. Let’s begin with the fact that Jackie Gleason never won one. Astounding, but true.   Here’s another: George Carlin never won one, either.   Feel free to swear and mutter under your breath with…

  • Paula and the Chili Cheese Fried Burrito — Together at Last

    The ongoing speculation over where Paula Abdul will manage to land in her post-“American Idol” life has little to do with the recent introduction at Wienerschnitzel of a (drum roll, please) Chili Cheese Fries Burrito. But bear with me for a few hundred words, and I promise to tie them together in a quasi-profound way.…

  • Mischer’s Moves Have Opened the Emmy Wounds

    Don Mischer must be some kind of an evil genius.   Oh sure, plenty of people have proven proficient at inspiring anger in the TV industry rank-and-file, what with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ long and colorful history of Emmy alienation.   But no one has been able to piss everyone off with…

  • Keep Those MJ Fires Burning!

    The Michael Jackson Saga has now reigned o’er the land for precisely 40 days and 40 nights. But it’s already pretty clear that its freshness date has, alas, just about expired (according to my unofficial Tabloidy Overkill Buzz-O-Meter). And nothing can take its place.   We now are left to wonder: what will become of…

  • Maybe There Really Is Hope for the Emmys

    I think I can speak for the rest of America in leading a collective exhale after reviewing this morning’s Emmy nominations.   We’re safe in the knowledge that the nation’s TV critics will not be forced to walk off their jobs en masse (at least, the nine that remain).   Why? Because Jim Parsons got…

  • Like Nothing We’ve Seen Since Princess Diana

    Michael Jackson’s death is the most globally devastating and consequential celebrity passing since that of Princess Diana nearly a dozen years ago and surely the most axis-altering entertainment story since at least the dawn of the Blog Age. Possibly even the Internet Age altogether. Here, after all, is a chronicle that embodies pretty much every aspect…