With tens of thousands of Haitians dead or dying in the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake, two well-known Americans stepped up to address the tragedy: Tonight Jon Stewart blasted both Pat Robertson and Bill O’Reilly for playing politics with the disaster, and to be fair, he also slammed MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for doing the same thing. … Continue reading The meanest men in America
I just read the rumors that NBC is moving Jay Leno back to his previous late night slot with a half hour show, pushing Conan O’Brien back half an hour and continuing his one-hour show. I could have told NBC it was a mistake to move Leno up to where he had to compete with … Continue reading Late night talk; here we go again
Health care reform, Afghanistan, the Fort Hood shootings. But what are the headlines filled with? Oprah! Oprah is leaving her TV talk show. She’s leaving in 2011, more than a year from now! But there are tears, reflection, and retrospectives everywhere you turn. Fer cryin’ out loud, people, she’s not gone yet! She won’t be … Continue reading Oprah stories a year premature
Mary Travers, of the famous folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, died two days ago of leukemia. She was 72. The trio’s rendition of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” was an anthem for the times, for the rising social awareness of the turbulent ’60s. Folk music, not folksy at all. It asked the tough … Continue reading Goodbye, Mary Travers
Today actor Patrick Swayze, 57, lost his long battle with pancreatic cancer. I’m going to miss him. I don’t know or care what the critics might have said about his acting skills or his films. I just know I liked both. In fact, I loved Dirty Dancing and Ghost. Ghost, in particular, made an indelible … Continue reading The ghost that made me cry
I happened to catch Bob Shieffer’s commentary on Face the Nation this morning, and with just a few numbers he put the Michael Jackson memorial into context in a way I hadn’t heard before. If only his retrospective observations could have preceded all the hoopla and been taken to heart by the media. On a … Continue reading Finally, some perspective
