Entertainment

Inside Hollywood Jokes Kill Tropic Thunder

Sergio Mims | Posted 08.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Tropic Thunder Comedy, Black, Entertainment, Movies, Blackface, Tropic Thunder, Tropic Thunder Review, Entertainment News
Sergio Mims

Hollywood is a place so insular and self-centered that it's convinced that everyone else on the planet is as enraptured as they are about themselves and the going-ons behind the scenes.

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"Why Canadian Football Is Better Than American Football?

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 08.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Media, Entertainment, Football, Canadian Football, Entertainment News
Earl Pomerantz

I know the Americans out there aren't going to agree with me. Americans are resistant to admitting that another country does anything better -- Health Care -- than they do.

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Goodbye Good Ole Boys, Hello Hollywood? How Will Obama Handle the Oil Industry?

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 08.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Entertainment, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Kennedy, American, Pipelines, Iraq, Obama, Texas, Cold War, Hollywood, Export, Iran, Exxon, Dan Glickman, Venezuela, Oil, Sudan, Will Smith, Nigeria, Spielberg, Jack Valenti, Rusia, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

The Republicans will always back a pro-oil immediate future, until their own voters, and the lobbyists filling their coffers with dollars, stop supporting them.

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Too Sensitive To Live?

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Sports, Living, Media, Entertainment, Living News
Earl Pomerantz

As a Canadian by birth, the Olympics do not have the same meaning for me that they do for Americans. They mean less because Canadians rarely win anyt...

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This Just In

Cathy Ladman | Posted 08.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sky Mall, Gratitudes, Cnn, American Airlines Evacuation, Entertainment, Ipod, Chin Ho, Tv, Media, Steve McGarrett, American Airlines, Dvr, 236.Com, Entertainment News
Cathy Ladman

I still don't know why that jet was being evacuated. I'm sure it will be in the paper tomorrow, along with some other old news. I don't know if I'll even bother to read that. I mean, it's old news, and there's an episode of Mannix on.

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The Opening of the American Marriage?

Lauren Cahn | Posted 08.01.2008 | Style

Read More: 70's, Marriage, Swinging, 1976, Living, Deep Throat, Entertainment, Key Party, Grant Show, Orgy, Cartoons by Lauren Cahn, Open Marriage, Swingtown, CBS Swingtown, Style News
Lauren Cahn

I love my friends. Adore them, actually. Attractive, witty, successful, interesting people they are. But I won't lie: I have no desire to have an orgy with them.

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How Hollywood/Media Have Lost Complete Sight of its Female Audience and Why Women Will Follow

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Television, Trends, Media, Entertainment, Ashlee Dupree, Celebrities, Ny Post, Media News
Patricia Handschiegel

Confidential to media: Your idea of what women are and what we seek in leaders, role models and entertainment is about as on target these days as Microsoft's Vista operating system.

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The Maddening Part of Mad Men

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Mad Men, Television, Living, Entertainment, The Inner Life, Matthew Weiner, Mad Men Season One, Entertainment News
Jamie Malanowski

One prominent element of every episode is the same: Boy, things sure were different back then! And that's the fun.

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"'Show' and 'Business'"

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 07.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Media, Entertainment, Business, Home News
Earl Pomerantz

Pixar makes a ton of money for Disney. So when the Pixar guys want to do a movie about a rodent with a talent for gourmet cooking, or an affable trash compacting machine in a movie with almost no decipherable words uttered during the first half of the picture, Disney says,"Sounds cool!"

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Rock 'N Roll Junior

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Media, Entertainment, Living News
Earl Pomerantz

Have you ever been in a stadium filled with eighteen thousand people, where you had the unquestionable certainty that you were by far the oldest perso...

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Wilshire & Washington

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Variety, Politics, Entertainment, Washington, Ted Johnson, New Media, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein, Wilshire, Barack Obama, Media News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Wilshire & Washington, the weekly Blog Talk Radio program that explores the intersection of politics, entertainment, and new media, launched this morning.

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A 40th Bite of the Apple

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Jackie Lomax, Doris Troy, Ronnie Spector, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ravi Shankar, Joe Garagiola, Business, Brian Epstein, Billy Preston, Apple Records, The Beatles, John Lennon, Entertainment, Carly Simon, Ringo Starr, Mary Hopkin, Elephant's Memory, Neil Aspinall, James Taylor, Twiggy, Badfinger, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

With the exception of Motown and Atlantic, there is no other catalog with as high a profile or cultural and historical significance as The Beatles' label, Apple Corps.

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Rafa and Roger: The Golden Age Is Upon Us

Andrew Brandt | Posted 07.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, Entertainment, Serena, Sports Business, Federer, Nadal, Venus, Tennis, Entertainment News
Andrew Brandt

As I watched this beautiful yet powerful display of tennis, I realized that, despite the protests of some old-timers, the golden age of sports is here and now.

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Doin' 360s

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Major Labels, Profit, Business, Entertainment, Recording Artists, 360 Deal, Record Industry, Record Labels, Business News
Mike Ragogna

Music labels have been in a constant state of panic over achieving quarterly numbers for what now seems like years, creating quite an uncreative atmosphere for both employees and the artists.

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Venus and Serena: Last Name Not Needed

Andrew Brandt | Posted 07.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Women's Tennis, Sports, Venus, Tennis, Serena, Williams Sisters, Endorsements, Entertainment, Business, Entertainment News
Andrew Brandt

Women's tennis needs Venus and Serena as much as any sport needs any two names. They dominate the biggest stage in tennis this week in a manner that flies in the face of the modern singularly focused athlete.

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The Third Screen: Larry Gelbart on the Future of Media

Vickie Karp | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Hbo, Television, Writers, Independent Film, Audience, Entertainment, Larry Gelbart, Youtube, Viewers, Media, Ric Burns, Hollywood, New York, Comedy, Reality TV, New Media, Media News
Vickie Karp

In the American media landscape, human viewers may be the only constant, but it remains hard to tell if media is about them and for them, or only, well, about money. Does it matter?

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Tonight on Broadway: The One-and-Doners

Andrew Brandt | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, Age Requirements, Basketball, Entertainment, Business, Nba, Underclassmen, Entertainment News
Andrew Brandt

Beyond athletes, the idea of a rule requiring young talents to forego income-producing and productive careers seems outlandish in other venues.

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A Green Room Memory of George Carlin

Lea Lane | Posted 06.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Jeopardy!, Richard Pryor, Andy Kaufman, George Carlin, Entertainment, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin Death, George Carlin Dies, Entertainment News
Lea Lane

Like some of the other original comics who died too soon -- Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Andy Kaufman-- George Carlin changed comedy, nudging and sometimes pushing it along.

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J-Lo Backing Obama?

Roberto Lovato | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Culture, Media, Latino Politics, Jennifer Lopez and Obama, J-Lo and Obama, Elections, Obama, Mccain, Latino Vote, Race, Latinos and Obama, Entertainment, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

Lopez would be the latest -- and most famous -- among the throng of Latino celebrities that have already come out in support of the Illinois Senator.

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Sex: It's OK to Do It Alone

Irene S. Levine | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Fractured Friendship Syndrome, Making Friends, Gno, Girl’s Night Out, Entertainment, Lonely, Best Friends Forever, Sex and the City, Judgmental Friends, Satc, Judgmental, Affairs, Female Friendships, Fractured Friendships, Bff, Loneliness, Friendship Deficit, Living, Reader Q & A, Living News
Irene S. Levine

What do you do if the Sex and the City movie is about to appear in theaters...and you have no gal pal to go with?

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Sex: The Ultimate GNO is Coming to Your Neighborhood

Irene S. Levine | Posted 05.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Entertainment, Bff, Girl’s Night Out, Charlotte and Miranda, Satc, Sex and the City, Living Benefits, Female Friendships, Swap in the City, Fractured Friendships, Movies, Success in the City, Skirt! Magazine, Female Friendship, Carrie Bradshaw, Sex, Manolos, Gno, Samantha, Carrie, Cosmos, Entertainment News
Irene S. Levine

What will you be doing when Sex and The City hits the theaters on May 30th? If you are female and haven't thought about getting together with friends, you must be living in a cave.

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Con Games: Ellen Marries McCain To Separate But Equal

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Civil Union, Television, John McCain, Entertainment, Gay Marriage, Ellen Degeneres, Entertainment News
Michael Conniff

Is it harsh to liken the Senator from Arizona and other civil unionists to segregationists who fought to the death to deny equality to blacks?

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Carrie Bradshaw Is the Harbinger of Death

Daniel Holloway | Posted 05.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Entertainment, Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City, Debt, Wages, Movies, Sarah Jessica Parker, Newspapers, Satc, Age Demographics, Sex and the City: The Movie, Entertainment News
Daniel Holloway

I now look forward to Carrie Bradshaw's big screen debut about as much as I look forward to the day when I arrive in hell and am told David Spade is my roommate.

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Con Games: Irony Man

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Military Industrial Complex, Media, Entertainment, Robert Downey Jr., Movies, War in Iraq, Blockbusters, Entertainment News
Michael Conniff

When Robert Downey Jr., the inherently ironic leading man, arrives on the scene in the Marvel Comics blockbuster Iron Man, you immediately wonder how are you're going to end up liking this hipster merchant of death.

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Comic-book Movies Have Ruined Special Effects

Jack Donaldson | Posted 05.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Comic Books, Forrest Gump, Iron Man, Effects, Robert Downey Jr., Adaptation, Entertainment, Cgi, Special Effects, Popular Mechanics, Chris Cooper, Spider Man, Spike Jonze, Entertainment News
Jack Donaldson

The comic book genre in general hasn't really inspired much wonder for CGI; if anything, it's provided a glut in effects that makes the films less impressive.

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