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I am saddened by the death of the most excellent Art Carney at 85: Art Carney, the Academy Award-winning comic actor who first gained fame as the guffawing, slightly off-center sewer worker Ed Norton in the early 1950’s television series “The Honeymooners,” died on Sunday at a convalescent home in …

Surely Pink Floyd is the strangest mega-successful group in rock history. Beginning in the mid-’60s as a R&B-based hard rock band like the Who or Pretty Things, the band – Syd Barrett on guitar and vocals, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, Richard Wright on keyboards, and Nick Mason on …

Jessica Lynch has been lionized as a hero by the military, vilified as a fake by the rabid anti-war crowd – she has been bandied back and forth like a tennis ball. She is not a symbol, she is a person, she did not fight like Rambo when she was …

Following the day-to-day news from Iraq is very disturbing and can be terribly confusing. I HATE the fact that Americans are dying almost every day – I feel powerless and frustrated. That’s why a story like this is so important: things are different, there are tangible gains, a society that …

Certainly the copyright owners should be compensated, but how is ANYONE served by booting to the curb a 16-hour Elvis Presley bio video? A U.S. appeals court brought down the curtain Thursday on a film documentary about singer Elvis Presley, saying it made improper use of copyrighted film, photo and …

The third part of the Matrix trilogy opens simultaneously in revolutionary manner: The Matrix Revolutions hit screens at 1400 GMT in London – which equates to 0600 in Los Angeles, 0900 in New York, 1700 in Moscow and 2300 in Tokyo. It will be shown simultaneously in 65 countries in …

We have had much comment already on the cancellation of the CBS TV movie about the Reagans. Now CBS president and CEO Les Moonves (add a “t” and you have smart spacewear for fall) is taking his “reagard” a step further: Les Moonves Donates Testicles to Reagan Presidential Library Commemorating …

The late, legendary Man In Black Johnny Cash will be honored with a musical tribute tonight on the Country Music Association awards, broadcast live on CBS. Cash, nominated for four awards including Album of the Year for American lV: The Man Comes Around and Single of the Year for “Hurt,” …

Like this woman, David Mamet appears to be laboring under the misconception that he is intelligent, when in reality he is, like this woman, a gibbering idiot. In language one can only conclude is meant to impress a “sophisticated” UK readership (they for whom Benny Hill was the apex of …

My super cool friend Randy Haecker is the publicist for Sony Legacy, the Columbia and Epic reissues label. He has the privilege of publicizing and promoting the greatest single body of recorded popular music on earth. He also likes scary movies. Here’s his Top 10 list: Scrolling through the links …