One of the good things about television is that there’s such alternatives now to what’s often homogenized network entertainment.

The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a...

You know the cliche that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, … Political conventions are sort of showmanship for people whose idea of great entertainment is the Gridiron. If you think the Gridiron is equal...

Politicians now are so scripted, they all are. Doesn’t matter what their political views. Everyone has a script. Everyone is quaffed to the nine’s.

The religio-hucksterism surrounding the Schiavo case makes DeMille’s Hollywood crusades look like amateur night. This circus is the latest and most egregious in a series of cultural shocks that have followed Election Day 2004, when...

This play is a searing inside account of what white racism does to its victims, … and it floats on the same authentic artistry as the blues music it celebrates.

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about...

[Regarding] The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan … meet with folks out in the heartland and hear what’s on their minds.

capital crime was to write a column on this page last month reporting that Mr. Gibson was promoting his upcoming film about the crucifixion, ‘The Passion,’ by baiting Jews. As indeed he has.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

Bring Back Warren Harding

Essentially, I want to know the facts.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

The press coverage will surely, with hindsight, make for hilarious reading.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics… who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

[Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo] epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration...

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news...

Blowhard and Snake-Oil Salesman

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

Falluja Floods the Superdome

I’m always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

always on tap, night and day, weekdays and weekends, to laugh, to applaud, to love.

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that’s the news, too.

Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn’t.

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.

In between, he had done Pia Zadora’s act in Vegas,