Category: Entertainment Editorial

So, the “new” Fall season is long over and before the new one begins, I thought I’d revisit a betting pool list of what shows from the 2011-2012 season would make, and which would be renewed. As you’ll see, I didn’t score perfectly, but I did better than you might think. What I wrote then…

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Christopher Buckley’s “They Eat Puppies Don’t They?”! In this superb satire, Buckley (the brilliant satirist behind “Thank You For Smoking”) takes on the symbiotic yet adversarial relationship between China and the United States, and includes scores of great pot shots about the military industrial complex for good measure. The book begins when defense industry lobbyist…

While in the search of selections for Alabama Liberal’s “Book of the Month” club list, I come across books that don’t quite make the cut (either by an inch or a mile) but are worth discussing here anyway. [Note: April’s Book Selection is “C-Street” and May’s hasn’t been decided yet, none of these are official…

It’s that time of year again, the time when Hollywood rolls out its “best” (i.e. most expensive) movies to assault us all in theaters until we wobble out of the theater reeling from the headache a Transformers movie can provide. Still, the best summer movies are wholly original creations that operate on a much higher…

We’re past the quarter mark for the year and about to head into “The Summer Movie Season” where everything is exploding, animated, or includes dick jokes, but (let’s be honest) since we never really leave that season anymore and Hollywood makes blockbusters (or big flops like John Carter) year-round, we can’t just ignore the late…

Today brings our monthly “Book of the Month” Club selection, but also the very first one to be a non-fiction book. In fact, I can’t say I really enjoy non-fiction books, and have often times bemoaned the fact that no one seems to read novels anymore. Still, “C-Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy” by…

It’s not every week I get to deal with race in an entertainment editorial, and some of you might wonder why I’m not talking about this in “Sunday’s Sermons,” but I feel strongly that this needs to be addressed. It’s the same old song-and-dance. Hollywood casts mostly white actors, and people complain that Television isn’t…

Right now is that time when the networks begin deciding what shows are coming back in the Fall, and which ones are going to that big T.V. graveyard of “Gone too Soon.” So I thought it’d be worthwhile to explore which network TV shows I hope come back for another season, and which ones I…

Okay, a quick word about the nature of pilots and pilot season before I list some of the ones that sound most promising. Just for those that don’t know, a TV “pilot” is the very first episode of a TV series. It’s what a network will watch, and then make a decision on to see…

Last week brought the news that North Korea has finally decided to give up their nuclear program in favor of something crazy, like not letting their citizens starve to death. The constantly-struggling nation struck a deal to give up nuclear production in exchange from massive aid from the United States. Still, who knows if the…

In the past few weeks, it seems like everybody and their brother has had an awards show. The Grammys, the Golden Globes, The Screen Actor’s Guild Awards, The Director’s Guild Awards, the Producer’s Guild Awards, the Teamster’s Best Awards, the Catering Services Awards, etc. And then of course the Oscars. Well fuck that noise. This…

I can’t say tonight’s show was the worst Oscar telecast but its damn sure the worst I’ve watched from start to finish. There were no good surprises (The Artist sweep), a couple bad ones (Meryl over Viola, Undefeated over Paradise Lost 3), and Billy Crystal bringing the house to a yawn with a poor performance…