As spring training turns serious and the Mets and the Yankees limber their hamstrings in the Land of the Pregnant Chad, the sportscaster Keith Olbermann will now clear up a couple of baseball related items: 1. She’s fine. 2. No, he’s not giving it back. “She” is Mr. Olbermann’s mother, Marie, who was memorably bonked Read More
It’s just past 8 a.m. on the set of ABC’s Good Morning America, and Samantha Finck is crying like a baby. She is a baby--Samantha is one-sixth of three separate sets of Finck twins appearing on the show today--and just minutes to air, she’s wailing so loudly the production assistants jam fingers in their ears. Read More
“ He’s thought out,” Robert Verdi said. “He’s not. He’s not. He’s not.”
It was a gray Monday afternoon, and Mr. Verdi--the shiny-domed stylist, yappy Metro Channel fashion commentator and kill-’em-with-kindness host of the Discovery Channel’s abode-improvement show Surprise by Design--sat on the concrete steps outside the G.M. building at 59th and Fifth. He was Read More
“He’s thought out,” Robert Verdi said. “He’s not. He’s not. He’s not.” It was a gray Monday afternoon, and Mr. Verdi--the shiny-domed stylist, yappy Metro Channel fashion commentator and kill-’em-with-kindness host of the Discovery Channel’s abode-improvement show Surprise by Design--sat on the concrete steps outside the G.M. building at 59th and Fifth. He was looking Read More
You’ve probably seen this guy, Bill O’Reilly. He hosts a show on the Fox News Channel, The O’Reilly Factor. He’s a tall, blue-eyed fellow, and he likes to stir things up. Argues a lot, cuts off his guests. His audience eats it up. A lot of people love Bill O’Reilly, you see. Then again, a Read More
You’ve probably seen this guy, Bill O’Reilly. He hosts a show on the Fox News Channel, The O’Reilly Factor. He’s a tall, blue-eyed fellow, and he likes to stir things up. Argues a lot, cuts off his guests. His audience eats it up. A lot of people love Bill O’Reilly, you see. Then again, a Read More
We're getting out of here-just us ; NYTV will keep on a-chuggin'-and on the way out, we wanted to come up with an ideal finale, maybe not as good as Mary Tyler Moore 's, but certainly better than Seinfeld 's, or that moronic St. Elsewhere one when the saintly autistic kid looked into the snow Read More
"You know, I wanted to be a star," said Nellie McKay.
It was a Sunday afternoon in May, and Ms. McKay, who is 19, strawberry-blond, button-nosed, dewdrop-lipped, and a startlingly precocious singer-songwriter you should hear from soon, was walking along the bridle path in Central Park. She wore a crisp pink overcoat, shiny black shoes and Read MoreOn the afternoon of Wednesday, May 14, Leslie Moonves, the swaggering chairman and chief executive of CBS, will strut out onto the stage at Carnegie Hall, dressed in an impeccably tailored suit, to oversee the network's presentation of its upcoming fall schedule to more than 2,800 assorted advertisers, media buyers, agents, executives, Hollywood suck-ups and Read More
Wednesday, May 7
Tonight, May 7, well-known television innovator ( Pop-Up Video ) and nut case Tad Low will host something he's calling a Private Panty Portrait Party, which sounds like one of those voyeuristic hootenannies you used to read a lot about three or four years ago, when everyone under 35 was still drunk on Read MoreWednesday, April 30
By now every television critic, pop-culture theorist, political hack, sociology scholar, professional weight lifter, cabaret singer, shameless gasbag and even Ashleigh Banfield has released an opinion about television news' coverage of the Iraq war. But we wanted to take the subject to the street-you know, actual, un-focus-grouped TV viewers-so we traipsed on down Read More
[PRECIS]Roger Ailes has settled into Lachlan Murdoch’s old office in the Sixth Avenue canyon, and the Fox Network is now officially America’s great media megalith, with Mr. Ailes at its helm and wolfhound Bill O’Reilly bearing the standard beside him. As the evening news becomes more of a shibboleth for the networks, JASON GAY sat Read More
"I'm not really surprised," Bill O'Reilly said. It was early evening on April 21, and Mr. O'Reilly was getting ready for his television program, The O'Reilly Factor . He was also-in a calm, Bill O'Reilly voice-explaining his complete, utter lack of astonishment at being the most-watched person in cable news.
"The plan was always to have Read More"I'm not really surprised," Bill O'Reilly said. It was early evening on April 21, and Mr. O'Reilly was getting ready for his television program, The O'Reilly Factor . He was also-in a calm, Bill O'Reilly voice-explaining his complete, utter lack of astonishment at being the most-watched person in cable news.
"The plan was always to have Read MoreThey now have Americans troops patrolling their neighborhoods, American-supplied radio on their airwaves, and pretty soon they'll have Tom Brokaw, too, stentorially rhapsodizing on their rabbit-eared televisions.
But is Iraq ready for Seinfeld ? The American media campaign in Iraq is well underway, of course, even without Jerry. It began with psychological-warfare radio messages urging Read More
