Television
Everybody knows that the content and economy of American commercial television is dependent on the Nielsen ratings, and most of us have deduced from those ratings that Nielsen families are chosen for their per annum consumption of beer, Pringles and Don Ho’s greatest-hits albums.
May 3, 1996
Everybody knows that the content and economy of American commercial television is dependent on the Nielsen ratings, and most of us have deduced from those ratings that Nielsen families are chosen for their per annum consumption of beer, chips and Don Ho’s greatest-hits albums.
Sports
Actor Robert Wuhl was at Saturday’s game between the Dodgers and Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, sitting behind home plate with a friend, Bill Blumenreich, owner of a Boston comedy club.
June 17, 2004
I know “The Larry Sanders Show,” and “Arli$$” is no Larry.
Aug. 10, 1996
Movies
Movies about Hollywood are often knocked for being too inbred but the genre has resulted in a surprising number of good films, most recently Robert Altman’s “The Player.”
Aug. 21, 1992
Sept. 25, 1992
What: Season debut of “Arli$$” When: Sunday, 9:30-10 p.m. on HBO Arliss Michaels, the sleazy yet likable, hilarious, eternally optimistic, resourceful, fast-talking, fast-dealing sports super-agent, is back for a third season.
June 4, 1998
Six celebrities who made holes in one: CHERYL LADD: 122-yard hole in one ROBERT WAGNER: 170-yard hole in one GRAHAM NASH: 186-yard hole in one ROBERT WUHL 153-yard hole in one MIKE CONNORS: 150-yard hole in one LEE MAJORS: 160-yard hole in one Source: “Hollywood on the Links” (Tom Cuneff, Contemporary Books, 1997)
Sept. 28, 1998
Entertainment & Arts
Review: ‘I Ought to Be in Pictures’ steeped in sentimentality
Oct. 24, 2012
In the year of “Dances With Wolves,” Oscar show emcee Billy Crystal arrived onstage to open the ceremonies atop a horse; last year, he was wheeled out wearing a Hannibal Lecter-style mask and restraints, parodying “The Silence of the Lambs.”
March 28, 1993