atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Los Angeles– The Television Critics Association may have been a bit premature last weekend when it awarded its annual "career achievement" prize to Toronto-born producer Lorne Michaels. He still hasn't finished earning it.
Tom Watson: My Dirty Life & Times (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The summer does not love John McCain. The humidity seems to descend like a warm cloud on his campaign, locking in the ill humors and dreadful political vapors. Last summer, he was a mere ghost hanging around the Republican field....
The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Last week CNN Money reported on the latest development in the $1 billion lawsuit that media giant Viacom has filed against Google noting that: Viacom has agreed to let Google strip identifying information from YouTube viewers’ data before complying with a judge’s order to hand over the records as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit. This is [...]
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
-By Warner Todd Huston That’s it. NPR has declared Ohio a disaster area. Things are so bad. NPR gravely warns, that folks in the Buckeye state can’t even afford to buy meat for their dinner tables anymore. It’s the end of civilization as we know it. Doom and gloom. Oh the humanity. It’s the end [...]
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The Obama/John Belushi connection, as discovered by Orrin Judd. Bonus question: Was Hawaii already one of our 57 states when the bomb was dropped on it'...
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
There have only really ever been two celebrity deaths that have affected me: Phil Hartman and Chris Farley. While Hartman’s death was through murder — and that’s horrible, of course — for some reason, it was Farley’s that seemed sadder. Here was a young comic genius poised to be a superstar, but who was in [...]
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Standing at the car-rental counter in Los Angeles, a pair of visiting Midwesterners contemplate, just for a moment, whether to upgrade to a convertible. They don’t, but as soon as they see a freeway exit for Sunset Boulevard, the Midwestern boy wants to drive it. Steely Dan told him to, in “Babylon Sisters”: Drive west on [...]
Bugs and Cranks (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Sox 1, Twins 0 WP:Okajima (2-2) LP: Bass (3-3) SV:Papelbon (26) HRs: None Summary: The Red Sox and Twins engaged in a tense pitcher’s duel for 7 1/2 scoreless innings until Manny Ramirez drove in Dustin Pedroia with the only run of the game in the bottom of the eighth. Jonathan Papelbon recovered from last night’s loss to nail down [...]
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
by Klaus Kinski The 10th Annual Del Close Marathon is just a few weeks away, and like last year, the schedule is a tad overwhelming. Featuring over 150 shows from improv groups from all over North America, this milestone anniversary...
Mock, Paper, Scissors (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
(AP Photo/Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, HO) …Samurai Night Fever. (Apologies to the late John Belushi.)
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Reviewed by Victor Valdivia Quote: "Though it was frequently tagged with the dreaded 'jazz-fusion' label, Stuff's energetic music is a long way from the easy-listening dentist chair glop of the likes of Kenny G."
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
As a Saturday Night Live junkie who spent her youth devouring sketches like "Dieter's Dream" and "The McLaughlin Group," I was ecstatic about NBC's decision to re-broadcast the sketch comedy show's debut episode this weekend, as a way to honor...
The TV Zone (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Here are the five things I learned from watching the very first episode of "Saturday Night Live," which NBC aired this weekend as a tribute to the show's host, George Carlin. 1. John Belushi played a character who lived in...
AskMen.com (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
If you like to do what you want, when you want, at any cost, you'll want to be single forever.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
It's both a very cool and a very sad thing that "Saturday Night Live" this week will re-air its first episode ever, because it was hosted by George Carlin. The sad part, of course, is that Carlin died June 22 of heart failure. NBC is bringing out the 1975 show that started it all (at 11:30 tonight) as both a tribute and a bid for ratings.
