• There Really Is No Business Like Show Business

    Where are the showmen of yesteryear, the ones who are in the movie business to sell creativity rather than widgets?

  • A-Listers Are Aging, With No Heirs Apparent

    Being an A-lister today isn’t really much of an achievement

  • Why Am I Drifting Away From the Multiplex?

    I’m a movie fan, but Hollywood isn’t doing what it needs to do to keep me buying tickets

  • How ‘Idol’ Changed TV, and Why I Stopped Watching

    HOLLYBLOG: The show got more full of itself, the contestants have figured out all the angles

  • Tiger and Charlie in ‘Rehab’? Really?

    This has become the cure-all escape for anyone caught doing something or someone they shouldn’t

  • The Fantastic in ‘Mr. Fox’

    Hand-crafted aesthetic perfectly suits director who has created his own world

  • Not so Much ‘Mad’ Men as Miserable

    Mistakes, massive character flaws, lack of conscience are the things that make “Mad Men” so delicious.

  • My Do-It-Yourself TV Season

    It has murdering lawyers, aspiring designers, Zen cops out for revenge, ’60s ad men and drama queen stylists.

  • The Legacy of John Hughes: Lost Youth

    There are certain elements that exist in every John Hughes movie: someone lives on the wrong side of the tracks (and there are actual tracks); money is a big part of people’s lives, whether they have it or they don’t; the music is perfect; and the beautiful agony of being a teenager is treated, for…

  • Memo to You Crybaby WME Assistants …

    William Morris Endeavor, the new powerhouse agency, announced to its New York assistants that their pay will be reduced to between $10 to $14 hours. Being an assistant at an agency is a training program that can best be described as a mix of boot camp, Abu Ghraib and the worst fraternity on campus. For…

  • Oscars: A Look Back At Coulda-Been Contenders

    The public was caught off-guard by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s announcement that the best picture category would now allow for 10 nominations.   Which prompted me to whip up this made-up memo. The Academy likes memos.   To: All Academy Members   After much consideration and extensive deliberations, the Academy has…