There is too much television, if I can state the obvious. Every year Hollywood produces more than 400 scripted shows…
The early buzz about Dunkirk has been strong. Long before the movie’s release, its Twitter account started garnering followers. Comparisons…
Olivia de Havilland is going to court. The day before her 101st birthday, the grande dame of Hollywood’s Golden Age…
Shooter had a rough start. The television show starring Ryan Phillippe as the former marine Bob Lee Swagger was slated…
English actor Daniel Craig has shown dismaying condescension about his role as the debonair master spy known as Bond, James…
MLB Network’s Prime 9, the baseball network’s program that rates the best of baseball in just about every conceivable category, chose Casey Stengel as “baseball’s greatest character” in 2009. It was a good choice, though there was tough competition for the honor, and one of the beauties of baseball is it can produce endless talk (I hesitate to say arguments) about who the greatest (or worst) this or that is or was. In this case, what about Babe Ruth, Satchel Paige, Jimmy Piersall, Bob Uecker, Rocky Bridges?
Everything is so dour. By everything, I mean our entertainment. Overwrought, over-thinking, cynical and determined to have a “realistic” ending…
Speaking of the All-Star break, it’s time for that annual interruption of the everydayness of real baseball for an exhibition…
We now have more than enough big superhero movies to put together a list of must-haves. A good Marvel or…
The word “unprecedented” keeps coming up when discussion turns to our president. He likes it that way: scandalizing the “fake…