Movie mogul Tyler Perry halted an $800-million expansion to his Atlanta movie studio lands last week. The former army base is already one of the biggest film studios in America. Plans called for a dozen new soundstages and more to be built on the 330-acre lot. But after testing a new text-to-video AI program, Perry pulled the plug.
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It’s taken me a while to digest the movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. We saw it in Palm Springs with Rob and Erin and while I think we all enjoyed it, Mr. Rogers was such an unusual man that I needed to sit with the story for a while. The movie was quietly moving and its message deceptively simple: be kind.
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When the holidays roll around, what’s your go-to show or movie? Ken and I had this discussion on the air last week. He doesn’t stray from the time-tested classics: It’s A Wonderful Life, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I say, he’s missing out. …
Ken and I discussed a T-shirt last week that was drawing fire as racist. It was a Walking Dead-inspired shirt, that depicted Negan’s wire-wrapped baseball bat named Lucille and the character’s threatening words as he decided who to kill in the season six cliff-hanger: eenie meenie miny moe…. …
It doesn’t matter whether or not your childhood, or adulthood for that matter, included fantasies of fighting with light sabres or you ignored the phenomenon altogether. You’re still being forced by a Wookie to unwillingly absorb every nuance of (fake) life with Luke Skywalker. …
When I edit bits of audio, from the Prime Minister to a person on the street, I wonder how often a listener considers what’s left out of a sound-bite. As a journalist, they are supposed to be able to trust me to keep things in context, and I do. Unlike the major political parties who isolate three words of a sentence and claim it’s their opponent’s point of view. But I digress. …
Louis ck may very well be the funniest man on the planet. He’s cerebral and still relatable.  Stories about his daughters, his life, his observations, have made him millions of dollars. He’s a rock star in the stand-up comedy world. …
Back in the day, you know, the 70s in my case, when a TV show was a hit it was a hit with virtually everyone. Heck, we only had 3 channels so if you were watching TV at all, you couldn’t help but catch a popular show. …
Admittedly, I’m a sucker for dishy, insider stories from those who have made their living in some form of popular entertainment. …
Like everyone, I was shocked and saddened by the death of actor Paul Walker on the weekend. He was just 40.  He was killed in a car crash after leaving a charity event he had organized to raise money for Philippine typhoon relief. …
Who among us hasn’t wanted to take home something beautiful we saw in a movie: a piece of furniture, stunning artwork, Daniel Craig. …
Thankfully we all know how it ends.
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“Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right.” Â …
Just last week Nora Ephron’s memoir I Feel Bad About My Neck caught my eye as I passed by one of our bookshelves. Â I thought, I really need to read that again because I loved that book. Â …
It might seem that an internationally famous actor like Michael Caine would be above the little faux pas of life. Â Not so. Â In fact, had the nearly-80-year-old actor’s health not been as good as it is, he might have died from simply being forgotten! Here is the story from the New York Post. Â …
Our friend Eddie is a man of truly rare talents. Â He’s an incredible mimic and voice artist and you won’t find a funnier guy on the planet. Â …
A Michigan woman is suing the distributer of a new movie and the theatre where she saw it because she says the trailer was misleading. …
In Chapters last week I had planned only to buy SuperFreakonomics after it was recommended to me by someone who has also enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw and Outliers.  But they had a buy-3-get-1-free sale on throughout the store and books never go stale, so, I took advantage. …