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The world isn’t laughing tonight. Dick Cheney may have looked like death at the end of the debate, barely able to even get up from his chair, but he got up to walk and spout bullshit for another day. The same sadly can’t be said for Rodney Dangerfield who passed away yesterday at the ageContinue reading “R.I.P. RODNEY – WE REALLY DO RESPECT YOU”

Yeah, so I know I still owe you the whole Sunday (p)review thing, but that’s going to take me a while, and it just so happens I’m on jury duty right now. Well, not right now. Today, I’m at work. But that’s what’s making it more difficult. Because you see, yesterday I was at juryContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: THE REALLY REALLY BRIEF VERSION — REALLY”

Nearly 45 years after she got slashed to death in a shower becoming the most famous murder victim in history in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, actress Janet Leigh has died. While Psycho eventually overshadowed everything else on her resume, by the time she made it, Leigh had already created a long and respected body of work,Continue reading “R.I.P. JANET”

The major networks have basically abandoned Saturdays. The WB and UPN don’t even program the night, and NBC’s entire schedule consists of special clip shows and repeats. In fact, there is so little going on that in the fall previews by both TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly, the featured show doesn’t even exist in prime-time.Continue reading “THE FALL SEASON IN (P)REVIEW: MOVE ALONG PEOPLE — NOTHING TO SEE HERE … IT’S JUST SATURDAY”

You know, last night’s Presidential debate was great. John Kerry finally came out looking like he could win this thing, and Bush looked and sounded awful all night like, simply making statements with the hope that if he repeats something enough, people will believe it to be true. Frighteningly enough, plenty of people out thereContinue reading “HOW TO RECOVER FROM POST-DEBATE #1”

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”