Author Archives: AaronOOF

When I was just a young lad, especially during those pre-teen years, I had to go to my grandparents’ apartment every Friday evening for Friday night dinner. See, my secular Jewish family cared enough about our identity to come together and mangle the prayers, but not enough to really call it shabbos dinner. Nevertheless, myContinue reading “THE FALL SEASON IN (P)REVIEW: TGIF BUT NOT ON TV – A GOOD NIGHT TO GO OUT FOR A DRINK”

2004 has become the year of the rock doc. Overall, documentaries have attained some crossover to mainstream appeal over the past couple years, but this year alone we’ve already had Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and the still-playing End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones. Now we’re being rewarded with a third film,Continue reading “YOU DIG!? YOU SHOULD!”

Thursday is still the home to the most desired time-slots and highest rated shows on television, but NBC’s complete ownership of the night is a thing of the past. With the departure of Friends and CBS creating a lineup over the last couple years that has challenges (and often beats) NBC’s competition every week, ThursdayContinue reading “THE FALL SEASON IN (P)REVIEW: THURSDAY’S STILL MUST-SEE BUT NO LONGER DOMINATED BY NBC”

I’m not going to say that Wednesdays are the best night of television this season, but it’s running neck-and-neck (and-neck) with Thursday and Sunday. With a few standout series returning and three of the most highly touted new shows of the season joining the lineup, every hour presents a difficult choice, sometimes even one thatContinue reading “THE FALL SEASON IN (P)REVIEW: WEDNESDAYS CONTINUE TO BE THE MOST COMPETITIVE NIGHT OF THE WEEK”

Since this is an email making the rounds online, you may have received it already. But what fun anyway, right? My favorite thing about it is how obvious everything is; still, doesn’t the collection of hypocrisy carry more weight when it’s all in one place? By the way, if you haven’t yet registered to vote,Continue reading “FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS VOTE REPUBLICAN”

The New York Musical Theatre Festival has already started its last week, and I’m ashamed to say I haven’t had a chance to go to anything nor do I have any idea how well they’ve been doing. I hope it’s been a relative success because I think the concept of such a festival is somethingContinue reading “REMINDER THE SECOND: NYMTF SCREENINGS THIS WEEK”

It’s DVD release day, and today brings us the Best Movie of 2004 (so far): Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. You can buy it or you can rent it, but whatever you do, see it if you haven’t yet, and if you have, I’m sure like me most of you want to see itContinue reading “JUST A REMINDER: AN IMPORTANT DVD-TUESDAY”

108-Year-Old Man Starts Smoking Again. I used to smoke. I used to smoke a lot, in fact. But I quit nearly 10 years ago, and seeing the price of a pack of cigarettes these days, I did it at just the right time. Still, even though the smell gets to me sometimes now that I’veContinue reading “IF I LIVE TO 108, I WILL TOTALLY START SMOKING AGAIN TOO”

See, I’m not the only person still out there taking a microscope to the new TV season. NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” takes a look at the networks’ programming today during it’s second hour (3 pm Eastern). Of course, the New York NPR station, WNYC, doesn’t broadcast “Talk of the Nation,” so I often streamContinue reading “THE FALL SEASON IN (P)REVIEW: TUESDAYS SHOWING BITS OF POTENTIAL — KEY WORD IS “BITS””

About six weeks ago, the news that Craig Kilborn was leaving his CBS Late, Late Show post smacked the entertainment world across the fact like a feather. Really, nobody cared, and plenty were probably quite happy. But today’s news is different. NBC announced, and Jay Leno apparently will as well on tonight’s Tonight Show, thatContinue reading “A REAL LATE NIGHT CHANGING OF THE GUARD”