It sounds like Mr. Hammond does indeed have a compelling story to share, but being more of an impressionist and a performer than a writer, probably could have used either a ghost writer or at least a very good editor to help him tell it. Still, some stories are worth telling even if told by less than proficient…

"Make Me Smile" is phenomenal. They were already drifting into adult contemporary land before Terry Kath died, but afterwards it was pretty irrevocable.

Along those lines, I'd be down for Disney to pay Werner Herzog to redo Aguirre, The Wrath of God as "A Star Wars Story." Unfortunately Klaus Kinski's no longer with us, so it could never reach its full potential. Though, come to think of it, maybe Mark Hamill could pull it off.

They have some sort very complicated legal/marketing strategy set-up where only direct sequels of "The Force Awakens" get the straight "Star Wars" label. The "spinoff" titles get "A Star Wars Story" - I guess sort of like how they have Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, Armani Exchange, and so forth.

Better cameras and higher video resolutions make it harder to make people to look pretty, "modern" or otherwise. On-air talent was not thrilled about the advent of HDTV.

It almost sounds more outraged than alarmed.

And yet "throw back" caps and uniforms tend to be pretty popular.

In the past 30 years baseball has added four new teams, switched from two divisions per league to three, added and then expanded a wild card playoff system, introduced and greatly expanded interleague play, merged its AL and NL officiating staffs, and added instant replay. Now, you can argue about how innovative these…

LOL …Well, I'm sure he's been dying to hear my thoughts on the subject. Anyway, my guess is they're deeply committed enough by this point that the proverbial ship has sailed.

To openly admit that you love to watch cartoons, despite being past the age when you're supposed to like them, is in many ways the epitome of maturity.

I guess it really depends on what your definition of "dull" is. Some of us find character and dialog driven movies very compelling, and get bored to tears sitting through CGI-laden blockbusters. Similarly, while basketball and (to a somewhat lesser extent) football have more moment-to-moment action, I don't find…

So the New York Times just ran another one of its universally loathed and ridiculed "trend pieces," this time decrying how baseball (while admittedly both popular and financially sound) is an aging institution that is loosing oh-so-precious "relevance" because it's not doing enough to emulate younger, supposedly…

If the show was filmed in 4:3 (which it almost certainly would be, unless they anticipated the switch to HDTV and produced it in a wider aspect ratio), then showing it that way wouldn't be "cut off." Stretching it or cropping it to 16:9 would be cutting it off.

'Tis the way of the world. The adorable F-ups wreak havoc, the responsible ones rush in and risk life and limb save everybody's ass. They then catch hell and all of the blame for doing so, while the F-ups get patted on the head and rewarded.

Yes, I would call it diffuse. While the "show is meant to be about social and cultural issues at large," our seemingly intimate familiarity with the personalities of the O.J. Simpson trial as individuals (regardless of how inaccurate those impressions may have actually been) made them the perfect vessels for…

This has been excellent and so much fun to watch, but I have to admit
being more than a bit worried for the creative team behind the show, now
that we know the focus next season will be on Katrina. A big reason why "The People vs. O.J. Simpson" worked so well was that we sort of thought we knew these people: The…

Plus he's probably really good about giving them 30 minutes for lunch, plus two 15 min. breaks during the course of the day.

You can also see a pretty clear shift in focus to Frasier & Lilith centric plots. It's not like they were directly teeing up the spinoff, but it wasn't much of a surprise when one was announced.

A lot of jurisdictions have some sort of requirement - typically at least one hot and one cold item - as a condition of issuing a license. Some places will skirt this by offering prepackaged things like chips or jerky, and Nachos or some disgusting microwavable item nobody in their right minds would ever order.

There's an episode where Sam decides he's going to offer an hors d'oeuvre spread in an effort to generate more business. It's like a giant buffet for a social club that has scheduled an event there which ends up having, like, two attendees.