First World Problems: Wearing Jeans with a Sport Coat
Okay, so where am I? I’m standing in front of my closet pretending to be choosing what to wear when I am really wondering why Roseanne Barr didn’t call me ahead of her Ambien tweet that got her rebooted hit TV show booted off of ABC. I mean…saying you didn’t know someone “was black” is […]
Playoff Ratings – The Tale of Two Bays
Okay, so where am I? I just finished refereeing the kids in our belated Father’s Day trip to see Finding Dory. Better than the first installment (Finding Nemo), the family movie was just the trick to soften stubbornness and unite the already close clan we are. Media bonds the family. All you have to do […]
Backstage at the Oscars: 2014
Awards Season is over and yet my dreams have only been elevated. My drive accelerated. A few minutes after the Academy Award telecast had ended, I whipped off an email to my agent begging him: The Media Guy at the Oscars. “I know I bore you with this…but I have to win an Oscar…Once you […]
OSCAR WEEK 2014: Dreaming in Gold
Once upon a time, a boy dreamed of winning an Oscar. He wrote and wrote and wrote. Fingers numb and calloused as he searched for the perfect combination of words that created the scenes that would ultimately build a story that could be made into movie that would move the soul. This movie would go […]
Backstage at the Oscars: 2013
The critics love to hate the Academy Award telecast, but nothing moves the needle like the Super Bowl and the Oscars. This year advertisers on the ABC telecast paid the highest commercial prices since 2008. ABC, which is part of the Walt Disney Company media conglomerate, charged somewhere between $1.65 million and $1.8 million for […]
The Bachelor…ABC Television’s guilty pleasure
I watch it because I wonder if people are really like this or not. I watch it for the single guy who always seems to be falling in love with six women at a time. I watch it for the women who smile and then eviscerate each other at the drop of a bikini top. And, […]
HELLO Ms. Jolie!
Since January 26th my inbox has been gathering steam from the Academy Awards® telling me who is going to present at the 84th annual event. credit: ©A.M.A.P.S.® For those of you living in a cave away from anything remotely close to Awards Season, the Oscars will be handed out on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak […]
Elevator Speech
So there you are…at a conference. It’s all about networking. Remember the earlier A.B.C. blog (A = Always B = Be C = Closing)? Someone initiates conversation (isn’t that nice for once?!), noticed your name tag and asks, “What do you guys do?” What’s your answer? You better come back with something special or ABC […]
Modern Family gives iPad some free love
“Modern Family” on ABC Wednesdays is my new MUST SEE. But, for all that love cascading from the father in Modern Family the other night, they should’ve been paid. I came to find out that this episode where the family weirdly bonds together to find daddy a new Apple iPad was free love. Other than […]
