• The Media’s New Rules for Twitter

    A sample of guidelines issued by the New York Times, Washington Post and others.

  • Sundance Channel Adds VOD Service

    Spike Lee’s “Passing Strange: The Movie” to inaugurate Sundance Select.

  • Mr. Genachowski Goes to Congress

    The country’s digital TV transition now history, Congress Tuesday gets its first view of what else President Obama could have coming from the Federal Communications Commission. The Senate Commerce Committee is slated to hold a confirmation hearing on the president’s nomination of his close friend and campaign adviser Julius Genachowski as the new FCC chairman,…

  • You Say You Want a Revolution …

    For over six months — once the families of the residents received that fateful letter from the MPTF — we’ve been fighting tooth and nail to keep the long term care center of the Motion Picture Home open, and to elicit support from the entertainment community. We’ve written letters, we’ve attempted contact with Jeffrey Katzenberg,…

  • Emmy Loves ’30 Rock,’ ‘Mad Men’ … and HBO

    Both shows are repeat big winners; NBC led among the broadcast networks, earning 16 Emmys overall.

  • Mike Tyson Explains Himself

    It’s hard to resist the primeval lure of “Tyson,” a documentary in which Mike Tyson candidly revisits his exclamation point of a life. Why are we so drawn to the former prizefighter, despite ourselves? Maybe it’s because Tyson’s devastation of his opponents was so disconcertingly beautiful. It gave us the same troubling fascination we have…

  • When A-Listers Get Illnesses …

    OZZY OSBOURNE Parkin’s Disease  The heavy-metal legend rose to fame as the frontman for the British group Black Sabbath but was fired in 1979 for his instability and drug abuse.   Dubbed “The Prince of Darkness” by fans and critics, Osbourne went on to have a prolific solo career and, with his wife, created “Ozzfest,”…

  • Make a Sex Tape, Be a Star!

    So, I’m sitting here in my swanky Hollywood Condo, in beautiful downtown Tinseltown, reading a story in TheWrap on some viral video guy hardly anybody knows who’s getting better ratings then NBC’s Prime-time Lineup (of course it’s not a huge undertaking NBC’s Ratings pretty much suck) … and I literally hurl my morning bran muffin!  …

  • Will the Web Kill Comedy?

    So, I’m sitting here in my swanky Hollywood condo, in beautiful downtown Tinseltown, reading a story in TheWrap on some viral video guy hardly anybody knows who’s getting better ratings then NBC’s prime time lineup (of course that’s not a huge undertaking, since NBC’s ratings pretty much suck) …and I literally hurl my morning bran…

  • Emmys Show Love to HBO, ’30 Rock’

    Cable network leads with 99 noms; NBC sitcom lands comedy record 22.

    Emmys Show Love to HBO, ’30 Rock’
  • Natasha Richardson Buried Near New York Home

    Latest news: Actress laid to rest close to where she lived with Liam Neeson and her two sons in Millbrook.