Halfway through, I thought the show succeeded in its mission, it made me want to go to the movies, I suddenly had a desire to run out and see all the flicks I’d missed, not on DVD, but in a theatre, savoring the separate location and the darkness. But by time the final credits ran, […]

People are buying "Soldier Of Love" because they’re planning on playing it. This is not Susan Boyle hysteria, a media-fed frenzy where people want to belong to a cult, to something, to feel human, to belong. It’s not even a holiday gift item.  Sure, "Soldier Of Love"’s release coincided with Valentine’s Day, but its sales […]

I just finished reading the Millennium Trilogy. It wasn’t easy.  Richard Griffiths had to send me the "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest" from the U.K.  It was six hundred pages long.  But I savored every line.  As I was introduced to a new world that was eerily similar to my own.  Because, as […]

That’s "Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives" to the uninitiated. Food porn.  That’s what the Food Network is.  And it’s SO successful Scripps is dialing up another outlet, the Cooking Channel Another Cable Helping for Food Lovers You see the public just can’t get enough. Yes, that used to be a famous Depeche Mode song, from an […]