If I see one more story about “White Lotus”… The “Wall Street Journal” did a piece on the effect on Four Seasons Hotels. “Vanity Fair” wrote about Aimee Lou Wood’s teeth. And do you know how many people have e-mailed me about this HBO/MAX show? ZERO! But my inbox is blowing up about “Adolescence.” And […]

MTV had it right. You don’t age with the audience, you pick your target demo and recreate your product to appeal to them. Otherwise, you die. Of course MTV died anyway. Superseded by music video on the internet. But everything is time-stamped, don’t you know? But for a few decades there, MTV ruled not only […]

When 12 year old, night owl me saw the first episode of Saturday Night, it instantly became my Bible, my sherpa to the adult world. I didn’t just grow up with SNL, it grabbed me by my heart, mind, and soul, and showed me how to grow up. Your take on tonight and the show […]

I was not going to watch this. No one does hype like old media. They carpet bomb in every publication known to man and by time the event transpires, you’re worn out. Meanwhile, the lionization of Lorne Michaels just rubs me wrong. He comes across as so smug. But when I saw Paul Simon sing […]