Newest News Queen: Diane Sawyer
Whether you watch them or not– and their audiences are dwindling, yet still a potent force — the anchors of the network news broadcasts are among the most powerful people on the global stage, able to snag an interview with the president or just about any other newsworthy personage and jet into world trouble spots and history-making events, backed by the full resources of their respective news organizations. It seems only...
Cineastes Unite: Save Film at LACMA!
It’s looking more and more likely that the much-deserved outrage raining down upon LACMA’s Michael Govan for his decision to shut down the museum’s film program may result in its rebirth. That’s my optimistic take on this controversy at this moment–and my fervent hope. Between Martin Scorsese’s pointed editorial in today’s Los Angeles Times and the new and growing by the minute Facebook group,...
Jason Jones: Exposing Something Funny in Iran
“How did you make it out of there alive?,” I somewhat seriously and somewhat facetiously asked Daily Show senior investigative foreign correspondent Jason Jones and producer Tim Greenberg about their recent trip to Iran. Their mission, and they chose to accept it, thinking they were going to France, was to somehow find humor “Behind the Veil,” as they’re calling their multi-part series documenting their ten-day journey to the land of...
Letterman Vs. Palin: No Contest
What is this, an SNL skit? Sarah Palin is hysterical….accusing David Letterman of suggesting her young daughter should be raped. The late night host has been having fun with it all week. Yes, he made a mistake, thinking Palin was a Yankee game with daughter Bristol, the one who had the kid out of wedlock, and joking that A-Rod might knock her up in the 7th inning stretch. Turns out she was actually with one of her younger girls....
Nurse Jackie: I'm Already Addicted
Scored another win for Showtime. The pay cabler has come up with another buzzy show. For those of you who could not get enough of Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano, here she is–and absolutely riveting as the title character in “Nurse Jackie.” From the opening sequence in which she expertly snorts tiny red pellets — I’m not familiar enough with pharmaceuticals to know exactly what sort of upper, tranquilizer...
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