This video of Japanese child drum prodigy Yoyoka Soma languished on Youtube since it was posted in January, but finally picked up steam last week after appearing in the Huffington Post. It’s now clocking almost one million hits... Robert Plant, like the rest of us, is all smiles...

2018

Jun

LET JAMES TAKE YOU DOWN By Eric Gould

Paul McCartney has had a long history of notable surprise public performances...

2018

Jun

ANDERSON COOPER’S TRIBUTE TO ANTHONY BOURDAIN By Eric Gould

The news of Anthony Bourdain’s untimely and shocking loss continues to reverberate. Unhappily. Here is Anderson Cooper’s moving remembrance of the tastes and insight that he gained over numerous interviews with the writer, chef and television documentary host...

2018

Jun

ANTHONY BOURDAIN, 1956 – 2018 By Eric Gould

The shock, surprise, and sorrow continue to flood across the internet today, June 8th, the day it was reported Anthony Bourdain was found dead of a suicide in France...

2018

May

OTTERWISE, A GREAT PERFORMANCE By Eric Gould

Critical praise is high for Benedict Cumberbatch on the premiere of his new Showtime series, Patrick Melrose... turns out, he’s a good sport, instantly game in this clip from a 2015 episode of The Graham Norton Show where Norton posted pictures from a popular meme playing on Cumberbatch’s assumed resemblance to otters...

2018

May

WHEN ROOMMATES SUCK… LITERALLY By Eric Gould

FX has announced that the vampire satire film What We Do in the Shadows, co-written and starring the always witty Jermaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) has been adapted for a 10-episode season starting in Spring 2019... the mockumentary-style comedy follows what happens when three vampires have been roommates for hundreds of years…

2018

Apr

ONE DEGREE OF (TV) SEPARATION: 2018 PULITZERS By Eric Gould

It’s not news on the level of rapper Kendrick Lamar, the surprising 2018 Pulitzer Prize recipient, but Jerry Saltz, New York art critic and former co-host of Bravo's Work of Art (2010-11) is also a 2018 winner...

2018

Apr

LES CRUSTACEANS By Eric Gould

SNL returned to musical satire last night (Saturday, April 15), with this operetta based on a man (Pete Davidson) who dares to order the lobster at a diner. You know, ‘cause it’s a diner. And no one ever orders orders the seafood. The lobster (Kenan Thompson) shellfishly laments his fate in the style of Les Miserables.

2018

Apr

HOME DELIVERY By Eric Gould

Seth Meyers' monologs are always good, but last night’s Late Night opening (Monday, April 9) was hard to beat...

2018

Apr

THE DISRUPTED DISRUPTER By Eric Gould

The accolades have been appropriately coming this week on the passing of Steven Bochco (1943 – 2018), producer and creator of two series– Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue – that changed the tone of broadcast and cable dramas to came after them... in this clip, Bochco reveals the conflicts amongst cast and producers of Hill Street Blues and how he perservered...

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