On a Mission
A personal note about a former colleague: TV Guide’s Mary Murphy was honored Monday night for her work at the Midnight Mission, one of the largest and longest-running homeless facilities in the…
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Iraq’s Shadow Over “Wounded Knee”
That, and other news, in today’s Political Panorama. Updated It's a human story, a factual story, but also a political one – and decidedly ugly. It may also signal a fateful quirk in the American…
Iraq’s Shadow Over “Wounded Knee”
That, and other news, in today’s Political Panorama. It's a human story, a factual story, but also a political one – and decidedly ugly. It may also signal a fateful quirk in the American character…
SAG condemns guild quitters
SAG's going to start slamming the door on thesps who quit the union. Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild are toughening up the guild's policy on how it treats members who file for "financial core"…
Gore: Still Not Running…
Al Gore appears on Tuesday night before the Writers Bloc in Beverly Hills in a conversation with Harry Shearer, and you can all but guarantee that he’ll be quizzed in some form or another about…
Richardson Launches in Los Angeles
When New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announced today that he was officially in the presidential race, he did so in Los Angeles, in the Biltmore Hotel, and in a room where John F. Kennedy accepted the…
Radio Wars
That, and other news, in today’s Political Panorama. XM is launching a new channel devoted entirely to the presidential race. In conjunction with CSPAN, the channel, called POTUS, will feature…
Will “Sicko” Be Boffo?
That, and other news, in today’s Political Panorama. Michael Moore’s "Sicko" debuted to a rousing reception in Cannes, where many admitted that they were moved to tears over stories in his doc of the…
Disney touts shows at L.A. screenings
Mouse House mavens officially kicked off the L.A. Screenings on the Disney back lot Sunday with an "Ugly Betty"-themed evening for the 1,000 foreign TV program buyers in town for the 10-day marathon.
Big appetites drive feeding frenzy
A plethora of dramas featuring everything from a female crime-solving team ("Women's Murder Club") to private eyes who are really vampires ("Moonlight") to wife-swappers in the '70s ("Swingtown") is…
