Rest In Peace: Larry Gelbart - Make The Gods Laugh
The brilliant TV and film writer, Larry Gelbart, was a friend. Not one of those friends who you hung out with but one of those people who made you feel important even if you didn’t feel that way. Larry Gelbart was like that.
Without Larry Gelbart I never would have become an author.
About ten years ago I found myself in a television writer’s most precarious position — over 40 years of age. As a recent age discrimination settlement in the industry proved, over 40 is deadly in the TV biz. I call it youthenasia.
I wrote a satirical piece for the Writers Guild magazine, Written By , called “I’m Not A Young Television Writer But I Play One On TV.” It was set up to look like a chapter of a book titled, “You’ll Never Get Old In This Town Again.” It was a farcical guide on how to fool network executives into thinking you were younger. Tips included, “Make sure you always pitch ideas lying on the floor so that the loose skin from the front of your face falls to the back of your head.”
Another one recommended that you not place any pre-1995 writing credits on your resume even if you won an Emmy writing on the hit show M*A*S*H*, unless you’re Larry Gelbart.” I didn’t know Read more
Beck Goes Nixon On His Fans, While Placing His Family In Harm’s Way
As Richard Nixon told voters prior to his election in 1968, he had the answer to getting out of Viet Nam triumphantly, but you first had to elect him to find out how, Glenn Beck will be announcing his revelation for how to take back America, but America would have to wait until Saturday to get hold of the secret.
You have to be there or watch it on FoxNews as the Liar Crier anchors special coverage of the 9/12 activities in Washington.
Beck announced that he knows how to wrestle this country from the hands of the socialist, fascist, Read more
Cronkite Successor: O’Reilly or Stewart? (Steve In Ink: Philly Inquirer)
YOUR MOMENT OF ZEN (Philadelphia Inquirer)
As Walter Cronkite - the last “most trusted newscaster” - passed on to that great newsroom in the sky, joining the other most trusted newscaster - Edward R. Murrow, who coincidentally recruited Cronkite to CBS - Time Magazine released a poll naming Jon Stewart, of Comedy Central’s Daily Show, America’s most trusted newscaster.
In a New York Times oped, Frank Rich opted that Stewart was not one properly positioned to hold that title.
How many of those with similarly exalted perches in the news media today — and those perches, however diminished, still do exist in the multichannel digital age — will speak truth to power when the country is on the line? This journalistic responsibility cannot be outsourced to Comedy Central and Jon Stewart.
But Rich’s belief is embedded in what used to be, not with what newscasting has morphed into; media Read more
New GOP Healthcare Talking Points Leaked: The Obama Plan Could Mark End of Bingo
To: Radio/TV Talk Show Hosts and Pundits
From: Michael Steele, GOP Chairman
Subject: FYEO - Health Plan Information Distribution
Remember…Fear sells!
There’s far more danger than meets the eye in President Obama’s program. While he promises affordable health insurance for everyone, what he and the Democrats aren’t telling you is that there will be hell to pay if you’re over 55. To the Democrats, 55 is the new 95.
Some of the programs and events that will be affected or prohibited altogether under the president’s tax hike health program include…
Standing in pool and making believe that swirling your arms in the water is exercise will be banned as Read more
Why Glenn Beck Could Be Right
“(President Obama) a deep-seated hatred for white people…this guy is, I believe, a racist.” Glenn Beck, Fox & Friends
Defenders of the president say that the president cannot be a racist. How could he be? He had a white mother and grandmother. He’d have to hate his mother and grandmother.
Well, Mr. and Mrs. Liberal Holier Than Thou. Did you ever think he that he could have hated his mother and grandmother? Tell me that there haven’t been times that you hated your mother? Perhaps she didn’t let you go out o play with your friends when you wanted or didn’t let you have another slice of pizza. Pizza with extra cheese and sausage. I admit it’s harder to hate your grand Read more
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