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For three years now the autism community has declared April Autism Awareness Month and Friday, April 2nd was World Autism Day. I turned on the TV to see how the mainstream media would advance the autism conversation. To my disappointment

John Malone and Greg Maffei must put the brakes on selling Overture Studios. They don’t need to sell it. They need to restructure it. It’s too valuable an asset to let go, especially when combined with Liberty Media’s other properties.

There are also methods of fixing the problems that currently exist with the scripted network television industry. The current process is enormously wasteful of both money and productivity. Writers spend months pitching ideas to executives, who in turn pitch them

The second high-profile name attached to HBO’s “The Pacific” was interviewed by CNSNews and would’ve distinguished himself with his classy approach to these questions even if his counterpart hadn’t defamed both the war in the Pacific and the War on

The entertainment media is doing the best they can to spin the paltry ratings for the debut of “The Pacific.” But 3.1 million viewers compared to the 10 million for the premiere of “Band of Brothers” is pretty difficult to

Victor Davis Hanson: Much has been written of the recent Tom Hanks remarks to Douglas Brinkley in a Time Magazine interview about his upcoming HBO series on World War II in the Pacific. Here is the explosive excerpt that is

You can watch these very troubling 25 seconds below and understand why Tom Hanks would never have the backbone to leave the comfortable echo chamber of MSNBC and enter an environment where he might be challenged. After the actor is

Over the weekend, Time Magazine published a long, glowing profile of Tom Hanks to help promote his upcoming HBO miniseries “The Pacific.” And as with all things entertainment media, the subject is never challenged or even made to shift uncomfortably

[youtube smoNSbMs9Yo nolink] —– The Wall Street Journal: The ensemble cast of actors in HBO miniseries “The Pacific” all have a similar look…dirty. “In my memory I was dirty for a year. I could not get the dirt off of

OK, we were just bunking, actually. In a trailer surrounded by cement t-walls in Baghdad. As gigs went, this one was a little OUT there. I’ve recently returned from eight days entertaining the troops in Kuwait and Iraq with four

[youtube XRF8FkPoMB4 nolink] More here. Remember when Rosie O’Donnell was called the Queen of Nice and Janeane Garofalo was actually a fairly compelling movie actress? It’s as though they had a special operation to have their class removed … if

Now I hate to be “that guy” who fact-checks jokes and so… I’m not going to be. Let’s be honest though, Bill Maher doesn’t really write jokes these days. He’s instead decided to sermonize on the perils of right-wing Americans

I had all but given up on Hollywood and the media understanding the real issues in the autism community and then last week, something happened. Andrew Wakefield’s study was retracted from The Lancet. Full disclosure, Wakefield’s study never actually claimed

A USA Today story informs us “Viewers are about to see full-frontal male nudity, heterosexual, homosexual and group sex, and graphic scenes rarely — if ever — seen on mainstream TV.” A few years back, I got a real taste

Look fast right around the one-minute mark: “Inspired By Historical Events” Cut to: A little boy in a t-shirt labelled “Israel” beating up a helpless little boy in a t-shirt labelled “Gaza Strip” as a slow, fat, clueless little boy

Partial list of winners: MOTION PICTURES: Picture, Drama: “Avatar” Picture, Musical or Comedy: “The Hangover” Actor, Drama: Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart” Actress, Drama: Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side” Director: James Cameron, “Avatar” Actor, Musical or Comedy: Robert Downey Jr., “Sherlock

We debated whether to rank “The Messenger” as “abhorrent,” but there are some lightly positive things about it. The more we thought about this movie after seeing it, however, the more the bad content in it stood out and annoyed

You’ve heard it said before: “The book is better than the movie.” But the movies helped me write my new book, The First Assassin. The First Assassin is a historical thriller set primarily in Washington, D.C., at the start of

Amy Rice and Alicia Sams’ documentary, “By the People,” provides a lens into Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. A guided tour of sorts, the film delves into the Obama’s biggest milestones, while ignoring glaring contradictions and blemishes. Perhaps two words

Last night a brave and insightful documentary was aired that accurately portrayed the wave of ObamaMania that swept the nation. It was called “V” and aired on ABC to mostly rave reviews and tremendous ratings. There was another documentary about

Last night HBO debuted the documentary “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama,” which chronicles the historic election of our 44th president. The film was shot by Alicia Sams and Amy Rice with a key assist from actor Edward

What in the world is wrong with people in the entertainment industry who come from humble beginnings, have a few years of real struggle and then with their uniqueness and by the grace of God (which you could interpret as