Nobody but me cares about this, but I’ll write about it anyway.
Towards the end of each Summer, speculation begins about the Fall’s new Saturday Night Live cast. Which regulars will return? Who will be added to the cast? Who hasn’t been asked back?
In recent years, Saturday Night Live has become one of the most […]

It’s common knowledge that Colombia is run by coke. And other drugs. Or that’s what Miami Vice will lead you to believe… But did you know that once upon a time, Coke ruled over Columbia?
In 1982, Coca-Cola purchased Columbia Pictures, the studio behind such films as Easy Rider, Mr. Smith Goes to […]

It’s like magic. Out of nowhere! Who would have thought, with films like Wings and The Jazz Singer not yet released, that today would mark the release of Tale Spin on DVD? I’m excited. This was a good Disney show, and I’m glad to see that said company’s home entertainment department is releasing […]

So what did I do during those three months that I was gone? Well, that’s a head-scratcher for me. Work, watching movies, sleeping… in short, having nothing to write about. I was in a softball league, that was pretty cool, but other than that it’s been an uneventful Summer.
And I really wasn’t gone: just out […]

Hey, I’m back.
Earlier this Summer, a book by Variety editor-in-chief (and before that production exec at Paramount and MGM) Peter Bart came out in stores. I don’t care for Bart as co-host of the once-interesting but now repetitive and self-indulgent Sunday Morning Shoutout TV show on AMC, and I rarely read Variety. But, I did […]