Tonight on “60 Minutes” they’re doing a piece about the upcoming much-discussed, much-maligned, and possibly hazardous Broadway musical, “Spider-Man: Turn On the Funk,” or whatever it’s called. I don’t have anything to do with the show, and apparently director Julie Taymor states that they released info about Swiss Miss just to mess with the fans (so, y’know, mission accomplished if that’s the case). So we’ll all find out together just what’s up.
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Aired tonight at 7 PM, EST, on Cartoon Network. I loved it. Then again, I’m biased.
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UPDATE: Check out the site of co-producer Brandon Vietti for a behind-the-scenes article about a YJ recording session. Click here.
Originally published May 6, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1068
Time to kill two birds with one stone, as they say (although I should emphasize that no animals have actually been injured in the making of this column.)
Several readers called to my attention, with some alarm, the April issue of Self magazine, a so-called women’s magazine that does big business in supermarket racks.
To all those inclined to have one.
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Every so often, America surprises me. Bristol Palin came in third. And considering she said tonight that she wanted to win–not because she felt she was the best–but because she wanted to upset all the people who “hate me and hate my mother”–I think that said it all.
Still waiting to see if my original post on this topic weeks ago predicting Grey would be the one to beat (before all the “Operation Bristol” nonsense came to light) was right.
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UPDATED: YES! (And Jennifer, I can totally sympathize with the whole ruptured disc problem.)
So…here’s the pitch: Dirty Dancing 2 (Yes, I know there was one set in Cuba; forget that.) Baby returns to Kellerman’s twenty years later when the place is getting ready to close (as many of them did in the 80s. ) Baby is there with her son by Johnny (who has since passed away) who is a total loser and finds his inner dancer, not to mention romance (of course.) Meanwhile Baby, who has never remarried even though Johnny passed away years ago, finds romance with a handsome guy (Hugh Jackman) who turns out to be the developer planning to level Kellerman’s.
Originally published April 29, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1067
I love it when Oh So? provides me grist for my column. It’s almost like getting a freebie.
I find myself wondering whether the grope-tastic actions of the TSA constitutes an illegal search in violation of the 4th and 14th Amendment and leaves them open to be sued on that basis by passengers who feel that the current procedures are too intrusive.
The simple act of wanting to take an airplane does not make one a suspect, any more than just getting behind the wheel of a car means that police can automatically pull you over and make you take a sobriety test. I don’t see how just wanting to fly from NYC to LAX constitutes just cause for an intrusive device that effectively strips you naked on television for prying eyes. What happens the very first time that a TSA employee whose job it is to watch subjects passing through the denudeonator gets arrested for having–oh, I dunno–child pørņ on his home computer. How’s that going to go over with the public, I wonder?
And if you feel that a video strip-search is demeaning, your alternative is to receive the same kind of pat down that someone gets just before they’re handcuffed and told to lower their head so they don’t bang it on the cop car?
Millions of innocent air passengers are being treated like criminals every day. How is this not actionable?
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