You’d think after 83 years, they’d finally have learned how to do it.  But, no, as the Oscar broadcast last Sunday proved, the folks who make the hard decisions on how to show off the best films of the year still haven’t figured out how to make the telecast interesting, let alone riveting.             […]

            The big weekend is just about upon us.  No, not the Super Bowl.  We already had that one.  The Oscars.  The Academy Awards.  That gaudiest of all gaudy award shows that allows all of us to feel like we are better judges of great cinema than the 6,000 or so members of the Academy […]

            In the hilarious film spoof of the free-love movement of the 1960s, “A Guide to the Married Man,” a married man, played by Walter Matthau, seeks guidance from a true womanizer, played by Robert Morse.  The story revolves around Matthau’s burning desire to get some action outside of his marriage, with Morse more than […]

            Ronald Reagan would have been 100 this past week.  The media folks have made a big deal of the anniversary of his birth, with a major special on HBO and even a PBS close-up of his second wife, Nancy, who still survives, seven years after her husband’s death.  Conservatives treated the event with all […]