My distain for movie director Michael “Transformers” Bay’s films knows no bounds as my friends and long time readers of this site know, but I never wish anyone physical harm or infirmity (even the Koch Brothers, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Ted Cruz. and Antonin Scalia among many other deserving candidates). So, I say to you […]

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There are few industries that like to celebrate itself more than the entertainment industry. There are Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Golden Globes and every other award known to man. (I’m still waiting for the award for “Best Best Boy” or “Best Key Grip.”) Often these award shows or lifetime tributes are recorded for broadcast, either live […]

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While music has “charms to soothe the savage breast,” some music I guess can drive people to violence. A 54-year-old North Charleston, South Carolina woman was charged recently with cutting her housemate with kitchen knives because he wouldn’t stop playing music by The Eagles. The woman was arrested and booked on “criminal domestic violence of […]

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I know that TIFF isn’t finished yet, but I have completed my 13th sojourn to the film festival that my wife introduced me to back in 1998, and this year was a good year at the fest. I saw 10 films, and I supposedly missed the film with the biggest buzz so far “12 Years […]

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Well, a delayed flight notwithstanding, your friend and humble narrator has arrived in Toronto for his 13th Film Festival. My first film is not until tonight, an Asian action film (par for the course for me), then tonight, the new film from the director of Academy Award winning “A Separation.” I’ll try and keep you […]

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I had heard rumblings for years that Bobby Riggs has thrown his match against Billie Jean King, but ESPN has been reporting some new information. Hal Shaw, now 79, was one of the golf pros at the Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club in Tampa, Fla., a mob-connected (owned?) golf club in the 1970s. He […]

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Much like the NCAA, there is a certain hypocrisy to being a news broadcasting entity like ESPN reporting controversial information on a league that you broadcast. Eventually, the league is going to tell you to back off, and you’re going to do it. The latest instance was reported in The New York Times this week. […]

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