Tag Archives: Video

When I first heard the premise of ABC’s Less than Perfect, I started flashing on the buried Fox sitcom, Babes. That short-lived series revolved around a trio of fat sisters who shared an apartment in the big city. Appealingly cast (Wendy Jo Sperber, Susan Peretz and Ed‘s Leslie Boone), the …

Bill Simmons honors Bruce Paltrow, who died yesterday: One of my favorite people died Thursday. Since he affected my life, I thought you needed to know about him. His name was Bruce Paltrow. The last name probably rings a bell, since he was Gwyneth’s father and all. And you might …

Whether his ultimate legacy is viewed as one of innovation or intellectual property perfidy, Shawn Fanning has already had an enormous impact on the world: HIS MUSIC-SHARING SOFTWARE PROGRAM Napster caused panic in the recording industry when it showed up on the Internet in 1999, only to be shut down …

Says Conan O’Brien: It’s amazing what famous people will tell you when you lock them in a small, dark room and deprive them of human contact. From Snoop to Shatner and Fabio to Mr. T, we’ve got all their whimpering confessions caught on tape. PALTROW SECRETS: “You’d never know it …

For you serious “bookie” types (reading not wagering), there is Book TV all weekend long (Saturday at 8 a.m. to Monday at 8a.m.) on C-SPAN2. The schedule this weekend: Saturday, October 5 (All times Eastern) 8 a.m. Children’s Books. From Tillicum Middle School in Bellevue, Wash., Helen Szablya and Peggy …

Steve Rhodes’ piece on Joe Pantoliano reminds me that Joe played Bob Keane in the film La Bamba, which I loved though Bob didn’t. Here’s a profile of Bob. An archetypal Southern California figure, Bob Keane’s fascinating career in music extends over 60 years from the ’30s to the present. …

The LA Times reports on movie studios hyping their own films on Internet movie sites: earlier this year, Chris Parry, a 32-year-old writer and ex-production manager who runs the site efilmcritic.com, began noticing a lot of very inauthentic postings. They read like outright publicity plugs, or what Net denizens call …

I feel much better knowing Kristy Swanson’s opinions on the following (click on “Expressions”): I am a huge football fan, and I am very psyched that the new season is finally underway. I don’t have a particular “team,” per se, but I like to follow the Rams and the Steelers, …

Oliver Willis writes on Barbershop, Jesse and Al in the American Times: They were once noble-minded foot soldiers in Martin Luther King’s struggle for civil rights. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, both sharp-tongued orators who rally the black community against the forces of injustice. But once the fight for civil …

How much does C.S.I.: Miami want you to know it’s part of the same franchise that gave us C.S.I.? So much that they’ll stick another Who song in the opening credits (“Won’t Be Fooled Again”), even if it makes less contextual sense than the first did. C.S.I. fans already know …