Usually movie musicals are lavish spectacles. Hugh Jackman and a thousand peasants. Julie Andrews and Nazis. Giant budgets, and in the...

...doesn't mean they still can't screw up your scene. Here’s an example: It’s from VOLUNTEERS written by me and David Isaacs. ...

Okay. This is going to be interesting. Let’s see how NBC plays this. Their lead anchor, the “face” of NBC News has been caught in an ...

Ready for some more Friday Questions? Dan Ball gets us started. What's the quickest amount of time you and David had to turn aro...

The Friday Questions are starting to pile up so I thought I’d sneak in an extra day. Hope this doesn’t throw you and you take off from w...

A final thought on the DMV. It brings to mind a writing exercise. (“Hey, what the fuck? I’m getting homework from a blog?”) Just a...

Got some interesting comments on a piece I posted last week about visiting the DMV. You can read it here if you missed it or repressed i...

WOW! A Super Bowl that lived up to the hype. And in true NFL fashion, an ugly unnecessary fight broke out with :18 seconds left in the...

A yearly tradition... For several years I've been talking about the "Lost" CHEERS scene. David and I wrote it for the 198...

Thanks to reader Mike.Pa for reminding me of this post from seven years ago.  Discussion today of Cybill Shepherd because of THE ...

Well, it was sure fun hosting for TCM.  Hope to do it again sometime.  Last night I showed my favorite Neil Simon movie, THE HEARTBREAK KI...

Well, we’ve come to the end of the Neil Simon Film Festival on TCM. Tonight’s my final night.  Will you miss me?    But we begin with...

So sorry to hear of the apparent passing of Lee Baby Simms. He was 72. Lee Baby Simms was maybe the greatest disc jockey you never heard...

Hi, this is the NFL. We’re the professional sports league that brings you the Super Bowl! The Patriots won the AFC Championship suppose...

From TNT's Red Carpet arrival show for the SAG Awards. TNT correspondent/idiot Danielle Demsky interviewing Rashida Jones -- daughter o...

Is there anything worse than having to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles? It combines all your favorite activities – dealing with b...

My father is on Pinterest. I can't think of a sentence I've ever written more bizarre than that. Why he is on Pinterest is a ...

I posted it on my Facebook page but wanted to share it here too. This flight was stuck on the tarmac. How lucky for those passengers that ...

Warning:  Here comes a rant.  Hide the children. Just caught a NY Post article from the end of November (okay, I don’t usually read the ...

This is the way the song was MEANT to be heard. Presenting the Disco version of the MASH theme by the New Marketts.   Boogie down, Colonel...