Too many people are watching the ball. Last week it was announced that sales were marginally up. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Now of course it’s not bad, but does it indicate a renaissance, or a momentary reprieve or is it completely irrelevant? We’ve lost the ability to build stars. At […]

My dad didn’t die. Well, he did, back in ’92. I’ve been inundated with all these condolence e-mails, and I appreciate the sentiment, but it reconfirms what I don’t want to believe, people rarely get past the first sentence, the first impression, the initial feeling. Now if you read the entire piece, you’d see that […]

"Sad that Kodak thought it was in the film business, when it was really in the memories, self expression and shared experience business." Kodak Kaput? – The Wall Street Journal Have you been following the war on Netflix and Redbox/Blockbuster? The film companies and HBO believe if they make war on these distributors DVD sales […]

So Howard Stern is sitting at home during Christmas vacation and he gets a call saying Paul is on the line. It’s weird that the head of NBC alternative programming responsible for "America’s Got Talent" would ring him, there’s no business pending, but it’s nice so Howard starts waxing rhapsodic, talking about the publicity, thanking […]