Sports: The Little League World Series

The pinnacle for the real boys of summer

Normally I don’t write about sports; I don’t consider myself knowledgeable enough to write authoritatively. But today, I make an exception for the one sporting event that catches my attention at this time every year: the Little League World Series. Continue reading

UPDATE: New Life for Tim?

HBO lets Tim live his awkward life again

 

UPDATE: Underrated fan favorite The Life & Times of Tim has been resurrected by pay network HBO for another 10-episode season.

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An appreciation: At the Movies

Siskel & Ebert’s balcony closes for the final time

Siskel & Ebert

This week’s episode of At the Movies was the last of the series that premiered 35 years ago, originally hosted by Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel.

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Howard Stern on Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg ** Hollywood’s official apologist-in-chief for bad behavior?

Let’s start with a disclaimer: I have been a huge fan of Howard Stern for many years.

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Mad Men**Public Relations

Don Draper is back and shows who’s the boss

Welcome to 1964 where the circumstances of his life have forced reinvention on our favorite Mad Man, Don Draper.

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The Bachelorette**The man that got away

She lets her desperation and heartbreak show

The Bachelorette

The Bachelorette

Every so often, a television show will come along that is the equivalent of a car wreck on the side of the freeway: awful to look at yet so compelling that I just can’t look away. So it is with The Bachelorette. I have not been a regular viewer of this show but I decided to partake of the current rotation and got stuck with the blubbering mess named Ali Fedotowsky. Continue reading