Monthly Archive

Good news first: I’ll be returning to “Wait Wait” this week. That’s right, tomorrow morning at dawn, when my car arrives (okay, when I get in the car), I’ll be heading to Chicago.
Bad news: From the only source available during this blackout, the talks that could send me back to something more […]

From Reuters
WASHINGTON - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators neared an agreement on Monday on a peace agenda as President George W. Bush launched a new drive to restart long-dormant talks to create a Palestinian state.
From The Hollywood Reporter
LOS ANGELES - At 10 a.m. Monday morning, union scribes and studio suits will touch gloves and resume their […]

A huge and happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
Here at Felbers West, we’re keeping a close eye on the action at Felbers East. Once we get the statistics on how much they’ve managed to eat and drink over there, we’ll know exactly what we have to shoot for in order to win this this year’s “Glutty.”
Both […]

As may have read, for the first time since the strike began, the talks are back on.
Nikki Finke, who writes the indispensable, terrific, and utterly worthwhile Deadline Hollywood Daily (which is where all we writer-types go for our news during The Troubles), broke that this was facilitated by CAA’s Bryan Lourd. Another victory for […]

From The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 — Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq, according to civilian and military officials briefed […]

From E!
Lions for Lambs, the Iraq War-inspired drama starring Cruise as a hawkish senator, Meryl Streep as his obsequious media mouthpiece and Robert Redford as the last principled man, couldn’t solve the weekend box office, taking in just $6.7 million, per estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations Sunday.
Fred Claus, the new Vince Vaughn holiday comedy, had […]

Oh yes, I know - the world is moving on. Congress overrode a Bush veto (okay, it was the Lawn Sprinkler Bill. Still, I’ll take it), elections are coming to Pakistan (probably… maybe… “boom…”), and Iraq has become a bucolic, peaceable kingdom (nothing mends fences like being segregated and/or dead).
But here in Hollywood, we’re […]

So, yeah, we’re on strike. I’ll tell you all about it. But first, let me give you a quick idea of what’s at stake:

Yes, that amazing project from 1962 may now never get made. Talk shows and wormholes are both very complicated things, but trust me, I had high hopes of […]

Sorry about the blackout, sportsfans. My internet host was doing a “server migration” on Saturday that was slated to last a few hours.
Things went horribly wrong, obviously. Horribly, horribly wrong.
I’ll check in tomorrow with the latest on the latest, but right now I must go soak my tender, aching feet, so newly returned […]