Archive for 2017


Larry Wilmore On Bill Maher

MILO Confronts the Panel | Overtime with Bill Maher (HBO) If Jimmy Carter is our best ex-President… Larry Wilmore is our best ex-talk show host. I’m a fan of Jon Stewart but I rarely watched the “Daily Show.” However I’m addicted to John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight,” wherein the British comedian speaks truth to power […]

The Oscars

Who cares? How did America’s go-to awards show, the creme de la creme, lose touch with its audience? Let’s start with the movies themselves. Not only is the human touch that built Hollywood purveyed now on television, but the fantasy/superhero flicks that are made to play around the world are not honored by the Academy. […]

Eddie and Felice

Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation – CNN My favorite Van Halen track is “And The Cradle Will Rock…” It used to be “Runnin’ With The Devil,” but I got hooked on the remastered version of “And The Cradle Will Rock…” on 1996’s “Best Of Volume 1.” I drove around in my BMW with the Alpine changer […]

Vail Buys Stowe

“Vail Resorts to buy Vermont’s Stowe ski area for $50 million” This is a story of disruption. Ideas are everything, but execution is key. Rob Katz, Chairman and CEO of Vail Resorts, retweeted Guy Kawasaki’s link to a story about this just a day before the deal closed: “Sorry But Successful People Don’t Care About […]