White rabbits, and L’shana tova! My favorite season has finally arrived, and October is probably the best month in that season. There’s a delicious chill in the air, the leaves are already starting to turn, the Yanks have faded and the Mets have blown it (albeit on the last day this year, instead of crashing…
BET entertainment chief Reginald Hudlin, who helped guide original programming at the channel that was first known for music videos and reruns, is leaving the company. According to a press release, Hudlin is returning to his “entrepreneurial roots” as an independent producer. Hudlin garnered his fame by producing the House Party movies and his credits…
Michael Eisner, the former CEO of Disney and current CNBC host, announced on a recent episode of "Fast Money" that the major media companies have reached an agreement with the Writers Guild of America that effectively ends the strike. Eisner claimed that an announcement will likely happen this weekend regarding the strike’s conclusion. According to…
Groundhog Day? Puh-lease. That’s what you’d expect, though, right? But did you know that today in 1912 the very first stuntman did his very first stunt? On Feb. 2, 1912, Frederick Rodman Law jumped off the Statue of Liberty with a parachute, earning himself a $1,500 paycheck from a movie company, Pathe, that shot the…
It happened four years ago today, but football fans still feel the pain. Who are we trying to kid? It might have been Superbowl’s greatest moment – heck, maybe even cable television’s greatest moment, when Janet Jackson’s breast accidentally popped out during a Halftime Show performance with Justin Timberlake. It went into the record books…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp4YG_dIPxY Today in 1984, Jermaine Jackson did what was all too firmly engrained in his once show biz kid ways — he knew the show had to go on. That, or he was completely oblivious to the fact that in the background of a Pepsi commercial shoot, his superstar brother, Michael, was aflame — literally….
This just in from AP: Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and driving under the influence after a Ventura County car crash that killed a man and injured Avary’s wife, authorities said. Avary, 42, was the driver in the single-car collision shortly after midnight Sunday in Ojai, said Capt. Ross…
Political bally ho and slightly skewed polls have driven us the web to be entertained this week. Let us share our links from our podcasts: More fun than Bill O’Reily, we have Atom Films election-themed site of games, music videos and gags. Our favorite is the Kung-Fu game which invites players to choose their favorite…
On this day in 1932, the 5,933-seat Radio City Music Hall, a joint effort by John D Rockelfeller, Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Radio Corporation of America, opened in New York City. Rothefal’s dance troupe the Roxyettes change their name to the Rockettes and star in the premiere extravaganza.
You can learn the damnedest things in the most unexpected places I was paging through last week’s Entertainment Weekly, the one where they anoint their entertainers of the year, and came across four women – Glenn Close, Mary Louise Parker, Kyra Sedgewick, and Holly Hunter – all grouped together by the fact that they are…
The tradition of late night TV hosts is a rich one here in the U.S. but today ComicMix Radio takes you across the boarder for a preview of a show that has been around for at least a couple of decades. Meet Ed (he’s the sock puppet) and Red (that would be the girl) from…
I have not gotten into trouble in a while so because I know I will be in Japan when this article runs, I can be safely away from the crap when it hits the fan. I love the entertainment business for the most part. That’s for the most part. There are some areas of the…
