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I may be one of only a handful of people who remembers Lou Carter. He was a show business veteran when I was a kid. He would show up on th...

Whenever I'm asked in public to talk about people I've worked with, the name that has seemed to come up most frequently is Erin Mora...

With Passover having just passed, it reminds me of when I was a teenager living in an apartment building in Flushing Queens. There was no C...

Whenever I'm looking to upgrade my mood, for whatever reason, these are the things that come to mind most often. They can pretty much a...

We lost Don Rickles today. He made it to ninety. A lot of people don't. Rickles was officially a legend. I'm going to attempt to...

So, I've been watching this mini-series on FX, "Feud: Bette and Joan". I've found it to be highly entertaining. It entai...

I had a great time at the Hollywood Celebrity Show over the weekend. I sold a shitload of books (I'm Not Garbo, and one of my essay boo...

I never thought I'd ever hear myself saying this, but on at least one occasion,  I saw two people out-dance, out-sing, and outperform,  ...

In  exactly two weeks from today and tomorrow,  March 25th and 26th,  I will be appearing at the Hollywood Celebrity Autograph Show in downt...

There's this new cable channel called CBS All-Access. To promote it, along with a lot of old shows, they have this extension of "T...

First of all, it was a very entertaining show. Particularly if you take my approach and watch it on half-hour tape delay, and skip through ...

Best picture: “Arrival”  Really good.  I've seen better. “Fences”  Well written, performed, and staged. “Hacksaw Ridge”  A whole...

Best director: “La La Land,” Damien Chazelle   I really don't know what to make of most of these, although it certainly was lush, and...

Best Actor: Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”   Terrific performance.  If he wasn't a sexual predator, he'd be a lock. And...

Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert, “Elle”  This is one of the few DVDs they didn't send me.  I have a feeling it wouldn't have made...

Best Supporting actor: Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”--Was unaffected by the movie, thus the performance.  Jeff Bridges, “Hell or High Wate...

Each day, from now until Oscar Night, I will offer my selections for the awards, in six categorties. Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Suppo...

This is a top quality film about two bi-polars who fall in love, and "what's to become of them" They want to get married and ...

Oh dear, another chick flick.  And what's more, a particularly bad one. It stars Susan Sarandon, who  I usually adore. But she used a ...

"Hacksaw Ridge is the last DVD that I received that I considered worthy of Best Picture. It takes place during World War 2, and is abo...