The Oscars are imposing a five-second delay for the first time, the Grammys had a five-minute delay, and the networks are scrutinizing their shows as they haven’t in years: As executives from Viacom Inc. and the NFL head to Washington today to answer questions about sex and profanity on TV, …

A five-second delay in the Oscar broadcast has the Academy up in arms. The Grammys had a five-MINUTE delay and got a sterile show as a result: Oscar president Frank Pierson has attacked a planned five-second delay on the TV broadcast of the awards ceremony as “a form of censorship”. …

Comcast – largest cable television operator in the United States – makes a $54.1 billion unsolicited takeover bid for the Walt Disney Company. I hope this doesn’t interfere with our trip to Disneyworld in May. Lily has been obsessing over the rides and attractions on their website – playing the …

Grammy gossip from the New York Daily News: Has Janet Jackson taught us nothing? So many celebrity breasts were popping out at the Grammys that we wondered if they should be re-named the Mammys. Christina Aguilera risked the wrath of CBS honchos by wearing a plunging satin halter gown. Though …

An almost uncannily balanced assessment of the “Bush lied” perspective in light of the apparent absence of WMD in Iraq, the Kay statements, etc., by Stuart Taylor in the National Journal: Democrats are in full cry about what Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer calls President Bush’s “egregious deception in …

Pianist-composer Michel Camilo’s alternately lively (“Cocowalk,” “Blue Bossa”) and elegantly moody (“Two Of a Kind,” “Twilight Glow”) 2-CD set Live at the Blue Note – from my homeys at Cleveland-based Telarc International – deservedly won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. Congrats! After recording for nearly two decades, …

By James K, Willcox, courtesy of StarPolish We are very excited to feature a new cool-guy article each week from StarPolish, now home of the legendary Velvet Rope, and THE premier site dedicated to educating and empowering artists, with an emphasis on artist advocacy and artist development. Sonny Landreth Recording …

We have two cats with which I coexist in a perfectly cordial manner – I have even been known to pet these creatures amiably from time to time. So I am no cat hater. But, I have also had the experience of living next door to a grotesquely irresponsible woman …

Mac Diva is on a roll: she called a spade a spade here, as it were, and predicted the attempted class action suit against Janet Jackson (and enablers) would not get very far. She was again correct: Less than a week after filing a class-action lawsuit because of her outrage …

I would like to hear what those most vehement in their opposition to the policies of GW Bush have to say about this. it would seem to have everything they favor: multilateralism, promotion of modernization and democracy through non-military means, promoting change through incentives and rewards rather than through force …