In the middle of a financial crisis, Hollywood is poised to gross $10 billion at the box office this year. The global economy may have melted down in 2009, but the Hollywood economy has never been stronger.
I can’t say I’ve never cheated on a girlfriend, though I have stayed faithful in my three serious adult relationships. My fidelity isn’t about morality as much as it’s about self-preservation because I like women with a little psycho behind their eyes and there is just no telling what a crazy woman
I once caught a ride from a cab driver who told me that America’s problems in Afghanistan really start in Kashmir. He explained that the key conflict in South Asia is between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir (that he, a native Kashmiri, called the most beautiful place on Ear
By the time I was 10, I had seen enough “60 Minutes” segments on the dangers of tobacco — and the lengths that R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris would go to in order to hide that danger from the general public — to take a principled stand against cigarettes.
In 1957, Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger came up with a theory which says that the anxiety or inner conflict between a person’s beliefs and their behavior will cause that person to change their beliefs to fit their behavior, rather than change their behavior to match what they believ
In 2003, then Secretary of Defense (and current un-indicted war criminal) Donald Rumsfeld wrote a memo in which he asked if “extreme radical madrassas,” the Islamic learning centers that pass for public schools in large parts of the Muslim world, were producing more terrorists every week or month th
Anyone who does in-home sales work will tell you it’s a waste of time to make presentations to people who aren’t decision makers. Make all the small talk you have to, but wait until both husband and wife are sitting at the kitchen table before you start selling.
“The Daily Show” used to do a segment called “Great Moments In Punditry” in which talk show transcripts were re-read by actors. It was funny because the actual arguments were too childish to take seriously — and because the actors reading the lines were children.
I’m always skeptical when the reasoning behind a course of action changes over time. Once the justification for invading Iraq became spreading democracy, for example, the flimsy argument about relieving Saddam Hussein of his elusive weapons of mass destruction became nonsense.
This past weekend I dreamt that during President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech former DNC Chairman (and Bill Clinton’s best friend) Terry McAuliffe stood up and said, “Barack, I’m happy for you and I’ma [sic] let you finish, but the Clinton Global Initiative had one of the most peacefu
It’s hard out there for a black actor. With the exception of the minstrel shows on Tyler Perry’s one-man chitlin’ circuit, there might be one black character — male or female — in the typical network TV ensemble cast.
It was here in Santa Monica that director Roman Polanski told the state of California what he thought of our criminal justice system. Despite the fact that he pled guilty to a felony, he decided it wasn’t worth living here if his address was going to be the state prison in Chino instead of the Chate
