"King" of Broadway
The announcement today that Whoppi Goldberg will host the Tony Awards this year reminded me that I never put up a link to my story about likely nominee Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the...
View ArticleStill My Favorite, Week After Week
Entertainment Weekly is out this week with its 1,000th issue. It’s a double issue, so it’s really the 999th and 1,000th, but the point is, EW has put out that many issues. And what I think is pretty...
View ArticleX Marks the Spot
I’ve always been kind of fascinated by reading about myself. Or rather, articles and books that discuss my generation or groups I’m a part of. So that’s why I chose Jeff Gordinier’s X Saves the World:...
View ArticleNo, Thank You?
I got my latest issue of Esquire in the mail yesterday, and it came with one of those wraps around it. Since it was about three weeks after the time when I usually get my issue, I figured this was a...
View ArticleOut of Town Goes Out of Town
Well, this sucks. When you think of Harvard Square, chances are good you think of Out-of-Town News, that iconic newsstand located right in the heart of the square. For more than 50 years, it’s been...
View ArticlePassed Over Again and Again and Again
Great. Another year and another shun. For the umpteenth year in a row (yes, it has been about umpteen years), People magazine has passed me over for the title of Sexiest Man Alive. Last year I could...
View ArticleI Feel the Need … the Need to Read
It’s hard to believe that I’ve only been at my new job for a week and a half now. It feels like longer, and I mean that in the best possible way. Really. But of all the things I expected to miss, not...
View ArticleOne Degree Closer?
I was reading the new issue of Entertainment Weekly this weekend, and in a Q&A with actress Kyra Sedgwick, who is, of course, married to Kevin Bacon, I saw this exchange: Do you pay attention to...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, EW!
In the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, which hit newsstands and my mailbox yesterday, Managing Editor Jess Cagle notes in his editor’s letter that the magazine celebrated its 20th birthday this...
View ArticleInfluential Me
It is no lie to say that my photo is included in the latest issue of Fast Company magazine, the one with Lance Armstrong on the cover, on page 138, in a section about Social Media’s New Stars. (Yes,...
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