Oct 23, 2020 | Television
“The West Wing” reunion special on HBO Max is very well done, thanks to a cast that still fits perfectly into their characters, with direction from Thomas Schlamme that evokes the quality of the original. Aaron Sorkin’s script,...
Oct 19, 2020 | Politics, Television
Lorne Michaels made a mistake bringing in Jim Carrey to play Joe Biden in the cold open political sketches on “Saturday Night Live.” The problem is he’s a “hot” performer playing a “cool” personality. Carrey is preternaturally...
Oct 16, 2020 | Movies, Television
That indelible picture of Barack Obama and five-year-old Jacob Philadelphia was shot in 2009 by the Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza, who spent all day, every day with the president, capturing thousands of images. What led to the photo is one of the...
Oct 15, 2020 | Television, Theater
In May, 2019, I raved after seeing Heidi Schreck’s “What The Constitution Means To Me” on Broadway: The show is mostly a monologue by Schreck about how the founders ignored women (and others) when writing the US Constitution, and about efforts —...
Oct 14, 2020 | Television
Regular readers of this site may remember that I was a huge fan of “The Amazing Race.” I even had host Phil Keoghan on my radio show many times. Unfortunately, CBS fell out of love with the show a couple of years ago and pulled it from the schedule....
Oct 4, 2020 | Politics, Television
Do yourself a favor and read this Twitter thread by Jelena Woehr, in which she imagines how ex-President Jed Barlett (of “The West Wing”) would have a conference call with his former colleagues about what sort of statement he should issue in response to...
