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Wanted: Flower Power!

Some days are good. Some are not so good. And some bring you news that just makes it clear it wasn’t worth chewing through the straps. This is one of those days. According to our friends at The Hollywood Reporter, … Continue reading

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Two Strikes and We’re Dead…

The second season of Pushing Daisies, ABC’s most visible wound from the Writers’ Strike, finally bowed last night. If you like it I hope you had a DVR handy – its sojourn on your screen may be painfully brief. The … Continue reading

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Emmys…Failure on an Epic Scale!

Last night, this country was subjected to one of the most boring, incompetent, ego-saturated intellectual vacuums in the history of this or any other sentient race. When you’re sixty you’re expected to be a little slow and forgetful. After fifty-nine … Continue reading

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Jessica Simpson….Live??

After her recent efforts to help the nation become sufficiently inebriated to endure her singing – if not the mere fact of her unbidden existence – Jessica Simpson’s latest musical pop-up book, a loose assemblage of atonal discord known to … Continue reading

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This Man Should Run NBC !

In an interview that appears today on Forbes.com, ten-time Emmy Award-winner Steven Bochco becomes the latest witness to Network greed. He’s decided to take his new drama series, “Raising the Bar,” to the cable station TNT, instead of to one … Continue reading

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Oscar doesn’t wear a Sombrero !

General Motors announced yesterday that it’s dropping the Oscar and Emmy ad campaigns that have been a fixture of those ceremonies for over ten years. Personally, I couldn’t be happier. The Oscars are a glittering celebration of a uniquely American … Continue reading

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