Let’s be honest here about two things: 1. Circa 2005 or so, Katherine Heigl had an astounding career. Grey’s Anatomy was going well, and Knocked Up came out in 2007. While you can argue that the success of the latter was more based on Seth… Continue Reading
It’s upfronts time in TV, so networks are announcing shows that got the ax (no more seasons) and some of their new shows for the fall. Over at ABC, Modern Family gets all the ink (its last couple of episodes have been… Continue Reading
I unabashedly love Chipotle, despite the fact (EDIT: because of the fact…) that I’m a white male raised middle-class in a major urban center. They have good food, it seems fresh, it comes pretty quickly, and they have cool marketing campaigns. Investors… Continue Reading
Not sure what to make of that Mad Men. I know the show likes its symbolism but tonight felt a bit too on the nose. — Nick Horowitz (@ztiworoh) May 5, 2014 This week's "Mad Men" was so over-the-top symbolic,… Continue Reading
It’s always funny to think of people who got big before they were big — like Leo in a Lassie movie, for example. Above is Brad Pitt from the TV show 21 Jump Street, which is one of his earlier “moderately-well-known”roles. Apparently, as he… Continue Reading
This is a good lesson in the context I reference in the title of this blog: Netflix is all the rage in certain friend groups/socioeconomic sectors as “Oh, is (such-and-such) streaming?” But here’s the important thing to remember: Netflix is a subscriber-based… Continue Reading
About the headline above: think about this for a second. Five hours of build-up. Everyone’s dressed all fancy. There are cool hats. The hard liquor is flowing. People are jubilant. Animals are even involved (?!). And then, the main event is… Continue Reading
The actual, official one — by Miley Cyrus — is above. There are about 10 million covers of this thing (Ryan Seacrest runs down about 32 of ’em here, with videos) and despite the fact that the original song came… Continue Reading