Although I don’t like President Bush as much as he does. Miller’s new talk show on CNBC starts tonight: Dennis Miller has usually been happy to spray his acerbic wit across the political spectrum, but things will be different on his new CNBC talk program. President Bush is in a …
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“The law’s on our side, right?”
If you bust out the heavy legal artillery in an attempt to stop the march of time rather than addressing the challenge from a business standpoint, don’t be surprised when someone uses the same weapons on you: A U.S. federal court has cleared the way for Kazaa file-sharing software owner …
Read More »The Choice of a New Generation
It has become a truism and a cliche that the Super Bowl is worth watching for the ads alone. Maybe, the game itself is often over by halftime. When I was DJing full time, I used to work a Super Bowl party one place or another each year and that …
Read More »“Bennifer” History
BAffleck and JLo have split – thank God. Some celebrity couples bring out the best in each other and seem to complement each other’s strengths: going way back you had George Burns and Gracie Allen, more recently Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and right now Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey …
Read More »Modern Day Honeymooners: Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey
Truly, if they were any cuter we would have to eat them. I can’t tell you why (though I will try), but I find the public display of new love between poptart Jessica Simpson, and her boyband singing husband (formerly of 98 Degrees) Nick Lachey both deeply amusing and inexplicably …
Read More »A-Depp-t
Is there a rule that Johnny Depp has to be in every other movie that comes out? In an effort to take advantage of the wild success of Pirates of the Caribbean, Depp’s next movie is being released early: The Johnny Depp thriller “Secret Window” is opening six weeks earlier …
Read More »“Real” Web TV
The technology of this may be very cool, but it is intrusive as hell: Beginning [yesterday], more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, [ran] full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives …
Read More »American Idol: Emphasis On Horrifying Crap This Week
I guess we know what’s in store for this week. American Idol runs three times this week – tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday – for a total of five hours of audition footage, two hours more than last season: The fun, of course, is in the hunt. The audition segments have …
Read More »Spalding Gray Still Missing
We reported last week that monologist-actor-author Spalding Gray was declared missing last Monday. He hasn’t turned up yet: Before he disappeared last week, Spalding Gray had been performing early versions of a new work that had long bedeviled him – a monologue about a car wreck more than two years …
Read More »ROTK Leading Oscars Sweepstakes
The Return of the King is now considered the leading contender for the best film Oscar after taking the top prize from the Producers Guild of America: The Return of the King took the Darryl F Zanuck award for best picture, adding to a string of major honours. Ten of …
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