One of the more celebrated situation comedies of all-time, All In The Family dominated the Nielsen ratings throughout much of the 1970s. Carroll O’Connor plays the title role of Archie Bunker, the politically-incorrect head of the Bunker household. Loud and opinionated, Archie liberally dispenses his often bigoted remarks and ignorant comments from a recliner in […]
Those of us who are 82 years old or older might remember the premier of a novel motion picture. While many movies during the Great Depression aimed to provide good feelings and a ray of hopeful sunshine into devastated lives, this particular movie had a somewhat different effect on the audiences. When people got their […]
Make no mistake about it, Katie’s leaving The Today Show is a death. It’s a death for all of us who spent the last fifteen years being informed, entertained, challenged and comforted by her. If Katie was there when we awoke each morning, somehow it felt as if the world was in its proper place. […]
Most people would think that by putting a gay mobster in Sopranos would totally ruin the show and have a little side story going and maybe even get the gay guys watching Sopranos.
Yet the quite opposite happened when “Vito” from the Sopranos was discovered to be gay by two wiseguys at a gay night club.
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Netflix pioneered online movie rental offering a monthly subscription to rent DVD’s from its website. Users create a list of movies they want to see then Netflix delivers them by mail, usually 3 at a time, with no postage cahrges and no late fee’s. When the customer is finished with the movies they simply send […]
In a television network the end devices are stupid, while the network itself is sophisticated. Control is exercised within the TV network itself. On the Internet, the opposite is actually true: an end-to-end deliberately dumb network with all of the intelligence concentrated at the periphery.
“To be a real-time video journalist, all you need is a […]
Nominated for six Academy Awards, and winner of Best Picture, Crash is more than deserving of the critical acclaim surrounding its release. Probing the deepest recesses of racism, prejudice, and discrimination in modern day America, the film forces viewers to examine their own tendencies to create and foster stereotypes. More importantly, it does so in […]