Archive for the 'Television' Category


Colbert & Kimmel

Funny is funny. And sincerity never goes out of style. I’m freaked out. Every day I read three newspapers from cover to cover, I refresh their apps, comb news sites, trying to get a handle on what is going on. I can’t. I see Rupert Murdoch is sacrificing his Fox News empire to control Sky, […]

R&RHOF On HBO

We’re only just passing through. Or, as Paul Simon once sang, “every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.” Not that Mr. Simon was in attendance. I remember when the R&RHOF began, before the building was erected in Cleveland, when all those original acts were crowding for inclusion, the dinners alternated from NYC to […]

Rachel Maddow

She’s the left wing explainer. I’ve become addicted to the news. Not only the papers, which arrive every day, whose apps I’m constantly checking on my phone, but TV, which I mostly catch on the satellite, Sirius XM. That’s right, there’s everything from Fox to CNN, MSNBC to Bloomberg, NPR and the BBC. I want […]

The Warren Buffett Documentary

Becoming Warren Buffett They broke the mold. You watch these documentaries so you can be like them, pick up little tips that will help you on the path to success. But watching this film you realize Buffett is the other, a sui generis businessman who in many ways is unique yet ultimately is no different […]