Sitcoms = WesternsEarl Pomerantz does, among other things, the absolute best posts about the decline of the sitcom form. (His words have extra...
Once In Love With Raimi, Always In Love With RaimiThe team of Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert that ruled first-run syndication a decade ago (Hercules, Xena) is trying to make a great big...
La Niñera!In my opinion, the best theme song of the last 20 years is Ann Hampton Calloway’s theme song for The Nanny , a funny, catchy...
MUSIC: Dept. of improbably hip localesWould you believe Winnipeg? I’m long overdue to get there and report a proper article about what Steve Kirby is doing as chairman...
Rockford VIThere was some doubt as to whether Universal was ever going to release the sixth and final season of The Rockford Files on...
The funk of forty thousand yearsEight hundred and eighty-one people in Austin, Texas, do the Thriller dance.
Why he annoys BerlinThat’s actually the headline for this analysis of Nicolas Sarkozy’s chronic inability to charm the leaders of France’s most...
Weekend Flop Viewing: THE ASSOCIATESThis show ran on ABC in the 1979-80 season. It was created by the same team that did Taxi : James L. Brooks and his gang had been...
How to market a black candidateThe New Republic has an interesting profile of Obama’s campaign strategist, David Axelrod, and his time-tested multi-part strategy...
The Empress’s new clothes, or what it takes to be WonderwomanSo the Republican National Committee spent $150,000 on new clothes from Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus for Sarah Palin and...