Call me cynical, but did Nik Wallenda’s tightrope walk over Niagara Falls really warrant 3 hours of TV coverage? Wallenda needed the underwriting to pay for his long-dreamed-of stunt, and ABC needed some cheap programming, I guess. But three hours for … what was it … about a 15-minute stroll? And the guy wore a … Continue reading Niagara yawner
Readers may remember back in November I posted a video from the Jimmy Kimmel show. It was a particularly funny Kimmel Kartoon, where the voices from a heated GOP debate were dubbed in over a Charlie Brown thanksgiving cartoon. It was widely circulated and widely enjoyed. But apparently not by everyone. Now it seems wherever … Continue reading What a shame
American music icon Dick Clark died this morning at age 82. Hard to imagine that, really. He’d been a part of the music scene since I first became aware there was a music scene. I watched him on “American Bandstand,” in black and white, when I was in junior high and high school. The show … Continue reading Dick Clark was my VJ
(Updated March 11 at 11:00 am MT) Last week conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh attacked a young law school student who spoke to a congressional committee about insurance coverage for contraceptives: What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and says that she must be paid to … Continue reading Limbaugh advertisers know a bad thing when they see it
I adore Ellen DeGeneres. She’s gentle, kind, funny, cute, authentic, honest. I can’t think of a single negative thing to say about her. As you might imagine then, I was just a wee bit pissed off when One Million Moms (all 40,000 of them) made a big stink last week about JC Penney hiring Ellen … Continue reading Don’t mess with America’s Ellen DeGeneres
I’m still trying to process the news that Whitney Houston is gone. Only 48 years old. She had struggled in recent years but I was always hopeful that she’d make it back and give us more fantastic songs like “I Will Always Love You.” What a voice she had. MSNBC has put up a wonderful … Continue reading R.I.P. Whitney Houston
