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• Okay, I admit it: I’m old-fashioned enough to enjoy ‘Andy Griffith Show’: There it is, my “secret vice” besides just loving to read good old, hold-in-your-hand newspapers, I love to watch those corny “Andy Griffth Show” reruns. Call it a silly weakness, [...]
• Morning television — ‘news’ programs or entertainment?: For quite some time, my wife and I have enjoyed watching some of the early morning “news” programs put on every weekday morning by the networks. You know the ones [...]
• Two brothers all movie fans should applaud; one now gone: Peter Graves, who died yesterday at his home at the age of 83, was one of two famous actor brothers all movie fans should applaud. The other is James Arness, [...]
• Why are daily ‘soaps,’ medical shows, legal dramas so popular?: Ever thought about why the daily “soaps” on daytime television, medical shows, legal dramas, and other such well-worn forms remain so popular on television? It’s my belief that we all [...]
• Wisdom for us all to be found in the ‘funny papers’: Many years ago when I was a kid, we called the comics page in our local newspaper “the funny papers.” Nowadays, of course, newspapers themselves are failing fast, and some [...]
• British display sense of great class, banning Savage and hate-filled Kansas ‘preacher’: The British have shown some real class, in my opinion, by putting radio talk show madman Michael Savage and the hate-filled, hateful, crazy Kansas preacher and his daughter (I’m not [...]
• How about those Oscar Awards, eh? Or did you even notice?: When I was a lad back in the 1400s — no, seriously, 1950s-60s I mean, watching the Academy Awards, the Oscars, each year was a big deal of sorts in [...]
• I’m really going to miss good old ‘ER’ on Thursday nights: Any of the rest of you reading this big fans of “ER”? You know — the long-running medical drama that anchored NBC’s Thursday night television lineup for about 200 years? [...]
• Thanks to McCain, Letterman for the political change-of-pace: humor for a change: Every election campaign offers its share of humor, most of it unintentional, i.e., debate gaffs or stump speech gaffs, even the choices of political candidates running for office. But it [...]
• I must be getting old: Television technology has me stumped: The last time we got a television was one my son gave us about six years ago — maybe seven? It’s a nice but very heavy digital television with a [...]
• Howie Mandel and Buy.com — here’s a YouTube video that will crack you up: If Howie Mandel and Buy.com can’t get you great deals on video games, great and fast delivery, AND patch up your faltering relationship with your girlfriend, then who can?? Take [...]
• Looks like ‘Dr. Phil’ has messed up again — or at least one of his producers did: Remember last year when Britney Spears was doing drug rehabilitation or alcohol rehab or whatever it was, and TV’s famous Dr. Phil went to visit her? Then got himself in [...]
• Charlton Heston, wonderful as a man and in movies, lousy in politics, dies at 83: Charlton Heston, the actor who went through life being “typecast” in popular culture as “God,” died last night in his home in Los Angeles. He was a consummate actor to [...]
• Approaching end of analog TV still has many confused: The federal government, in their usual slapstick fashion with just a dash of ironic humor, has decreed that television broadcasters go digital by February 17, 2009 — less than a [...]
• Whoopi Goldberg accepts apologies for being left out of Oscars montage: Oh, please, give me a break. It’s good to know, isn’t it, what with the U.S. economy tanking, people losing their homes and jobs, the war stumbling on in Iraq [...]
• Would Huckabee and McCain agree to settle nomination with hand-to-hand combat?: Nah, just kidding. I’m sure you know we never resolve political contests in America with hand-to-hand combat. Well, not PHYSICAL hand-to-hand, though campaign rhetoric might sometimes seem more vicious than [...]
• All of you with hearts aflutter over the Oscar nominations, please raise your hands: What?? No hands in the air?? What kind of Americans are you people anyway, if you can’t even get excited about this morning’s Academy Award nomination announcements. Okay, perhaps I’m [...]
• Celebrities — who needs ‘em? Well, most of us think we need ‘em: I met a friend of mine at the coffee shop this morning whom I hadn’t seen in a year or more. I congratulated her on the good news she shared: [...]
• Fun follow-up on that ‘Kingston Trio’ song classic about Boston’s MTA: A few days ago, I made reference to the pioneer folk music group, “The Kingston Trio,” and their classic comedy song, “M.T.A.” — about the man who never returned but [...]
• Kudos to these parents who raised this young man of faith who knows how to think: Our local newspaper today ran an opinion column written by a 14-year-old who lives in a small town near here. The writer, Dylan Wyatt, did such a great job of [...]
• Any opinions about the do-it-yourself television writers?: I’d be interested in what your opinions are about those television people who have tried to “bypass” the writers’ strike and get back on the air? I’ve only watched a [...]
• Keeping up with video technology really seems impossible: Well, I now feel just about as old as a caveman: I still remember when black-and-white televisions were the norm, and now Sony has released a OLED television — and [...]
• Gotta feel sorry for Lindsay Lohan, at least a little bit — or maybe I’m just soft hearted?: If you were to press me on the matter, I probably couldn’t tell you what films Lindsay Lohan has appeared in, much less how the course of her rehab has [...]
• Oscar Peterson, greatest jazz pianist of all time, dies at age 82: If you’re a jazz piano fan, you may already have heard the sad news: Oscar Peterson died today at the age of 82. I only regret that I never saw [...]
• Queen Elizabeth’s 1957 Christmas message launches ‘Royal Channel’ at YouTube: Here’s a real kick for those of us who keep up somewhat with the royal crowd in England: Queen Elizabeth II and the British royalty have launched the Royal Channel [...]
• ‘Talking heads’ tell us what we know every Sunday morning: We’re sitting in the middle of a winter storm where I live, with threats of ice on the way. So we stayed home from church today and I’ve spent the [...]
• ‘Two women so famous they are known only by their first name’ — just bad journalism: I quoted that part of my title directly from an Associated Press news story. Let’s see if we can guess who those “first name women” are, shall we? How about [...]
• Ohmygod — Is Britney pregnant again or not? Who knows? Who cares??: I don’t know whether I’ll be able to handle the uncertainty and sleep nights ever again: Conflicting reports from “reliable” entertainment sources say Britney Spears (everybody’s candidate for mother of [...]
• Not exactly news — presidential wannabes flash their star power: The day after Barack Obama’s campaign announced Oprah Winfrey was campaigning for him, Barbra Streisand surprised no one with a public statement endorsing Hillary Clinton. Well, according to reports, there [...]
• The sky is falling! Atheistic film is out to destroy our nation — NOT: People of faith everywhere should start to quake and even quiver, because apparently the atheists are out to destroy America, starting with the evil movie “The Golden Compass,” which will [...]
• ‘Great White Way’ may be dark for the holidays: Shed a tear, I guess, for alas, Broadway may be dim and dark for the holidays. Due to ongoing union strikes involving the stagehands, which apparently have broken down again, [...]
• Mailer’s death diminishes American writing and ‘letters’: Norman Mailer died yesterday, one of the first truly “modern” American novelists and a pioneer in “protest journalism” whose work stands as an important legacy. Although Mailer’s chief aspiration was [...]