Then Who Should Run, Maureen?
Maureen Dowd wrote a piece a few days ago about why Joe Biden should not run for re-election in 2024. This, after a string of very good news the president has had in the last couple of weeks, including last week convincing Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema to sign on to...
Stupid Don’t Get Tired
Alonzo Bodden is another one of the veteran comics who should have graduated from the clubs a while ago. He might not be able to fill arenas a la Kevin Hart or Ricky Gervais, but he could certainly do small theaters that seat a thousand. His being a semi-regular on...
MYMNK: “The Duke”
I tend to like movies about eccentric Brits. The most recent example was just six weeks ago, when I wrote about “The Phantom Of The Open,” starring Mark Rylance as an Englishman who managed to enter the British Open golf tournament — despite never...
Four Random Thoughts
I enjoyed Ethan Hawke’s six-part HBO Max documentary about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, “The Last Movie Stars.” The device of using contemporary stars to read transcripts of interviews the duo gave a biographer was ingenious, particularly the...