I actually saw almost two complete movies this weekend, and only one of them was targeted at children. The first was “Game Change,” the HBO movie starring Woody Harrelson, Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin and Ed Harris and John McCain. Now, you know going in that “Game Change” is political; it is the story of […]

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Readers of this site know that I think that Tim Tebow is a sanctimonious, untalented quarterback, who will soon be exposed by the rest of the league and soon riding the Denver Broncos’ bench. But he did a very good recently, and I felt I should say so. Tebow went on a date with 10-year-old […]

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My distain for Oprah Winfrey and all she stands for is well known to regular readers of this blog, but maybe she made a BIG mistake taking her talk show to her own cable channel. Last weekend during the Grammys (that featured the highest rating in years in part due to the fact that Whitney […]

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When George Lucas finished “Star Wars – Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,” he expressed relief that the saga was finished and he could go out and make other types of films, smaller films, more personal stories. “Red Tails” about the Tuskegee Airmen is the first film other than the fourth Indiana Jones installment […]

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I actually watched the entire Super Bowl last Sunday, I guess in payment for spending every waking moment helping the Indignant Oldest Daughter celebrate her 7th birthday. So, I watched the halftime show with Madonna, and generally, she moved pretty well for a 50 year-old woman, and while the skirt and books allowed a look […]

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The old adage is that famous deaths come in threes. It’s a crock, of course, because people die all the time, and of course, when we are talking about threes, when do we start? When do we end? Do two major stars and a movie director count? What about a “key Grip?” While not famous, […]

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Lots of people in my age group are in shock today. Don Cornelius, the founder of “Soul Train,” was found dead in Los Angeles of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 75. Reportedly, Cornelius created a pilot for “Soul Train” using $400 of his own money, I remember watching it on WCIU here in […]

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