Todd S Burroughs
…..the families of Harvey Korman, who I will always think of first as The Great Gazoo, and second as that hysterically funny man on “The Carol Burnett Show”
and to Tim Russert.
When Russert first took over “Meet The Press,” I wasn’t very excited. He seemed to turn a serious, sober news program that used to feature […]
Man, am I READY for this!
And for the uninitiated……..
First Maid Marian on “Robin Hood,” and now this? Damn BBC!
Yes, it is. And you’ll be on “American Masters” tonight. I can’t wait.
Much better, on LEVELS, than the journalistic hit-job he did on my hometown in 1986.
…..you’ll just have to see the Newseum for itself. I just can’t do it justice.
And just when I swore I was not going to watch it illegally online this season, that I was not going to care so much this time because of Freema getting the boot (well, sort of).
*SIGH*
Once upon a time, one of the greatest writers America has ever produced, Amiri Baraka, covered the 1988 Democratic National Convention for Essence magazine. (Baraka later wrote a whole book-length essay on Jesse Jackson’s relationship with Black people from the assignment.) In the excerpt I read in Baraka’s reader, he quotes Jackson as the Reverend […]
Here’s the amusing-but-true sibling to the white one.
……..Gene Davis, who became an ancestor last year.
Gene gave me my start researching for television productions, and he is missed.