As a special treat to all of my regular Tuesday readers I’m writing this post from my Las Vegas hotel room. If you’re in the city stop by and say hi. I’ll be the guy sitting in the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard, head in my hands, trying to figure out how I ended up owing my […]
Let’s continue our occasional series on animated robots of the 1980s. In the first part we discussed Challenge of the Gobots, which was a less than stellar example of the transforming robots genre. This time around we’ll talk about the Greatest Robot Cartoon Ever Made! I speak of The Transformers. You may not believe this, but the […]
Everyone, meet the summer doldrums. Summer doldrums, meet everyone…oh, wait. There’s no one to meet because they’re all out enjoying your season. Well, September is only two months away. At 8 PM we find agent Timothy McGee stuck in a women’s prison on NCIS. I’m pretty sure he’s thinking about Caged Heat the whole time. […]
They’re pre-recorded entertainment news programs! Which is quite a pickle when you have late-breaking entertainment news that these shows (Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Access Hollywood, Extra Access Hollywood Tonight) can’t cover. Well, for the Eastern and Central time zones, at least. Not too sure how it works on the West Coast. Take Thursday night, for example. All of […]
During the early days of MTV there were a handful of artists that helped shaped the network into the juggernaut it would eventually become. Performers such as Madonna, Billy Idol, David Bowie, The Police, The Cars, Phil Collins … and, of course, Michael Jackson. Where the other artists mentioned helped mold the world of music videos, Michael […]
Here’s a situation where we don’t know if we should admire the networks for their tenacity or feel all oogy at the fact that they had a pile of “Sent in the Event of Death” releases all ready to go. At about 3:00 PM EDT, only a few hours after Farrah Fawcett’s death was announced, we received […]
Not much has been heard about actor Jaleel White since his days as the lovable nerd Steven Urkel on Family Matters. Besides a more adult role on UPN’s Grown Ups, the voice of the animated Sonic the Hedgehog, and various roles on episodes of Boston Legal and The Game, Jaleel has kept a low profile. […]
