News and commentary: progress in work
With corporate layoffs in the news, it may be fitting to revisit the 2009 film Up in the Air, which is currently streaming on Netflix and elsewhere.
First, a word about Netflix in the context of the more recent trend toward so-called original content.
Perhaps lost in the all the big legal news this summer was the announcement that Live PD, the popular police ride-along reality show, is returning to weekend television in its previous time slots, beginning Friday, July 22, at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
While surfing through Amazon Prime content, you never know what you might discover amidst the mediocre original content (which may be why the streaming service is getting into live sports events), direct-to-video schlock, and older movies that are better in your memory than what they actually are.
An addendum to a post about how Rolling Stone magazine (and several other media outlets, for that matter) tried to turn actress Amber Heard into a feminist martyr after a Virginia jury found her liable to former husband Johnny Depp in the closely watched defamation trial:
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The so-called baseball experts in the media were generally dismissive of the Boston Red Sox in 2021.
Will history repeat itself?
The self-congratulatory Academy Awards ceremony, with its TV ratings in steady decline in part because no one has seen or wants to see any of the movies nominated, is on Sunday evening.
There is a lot of bandwidth taken up with discussions about the byzantine financial nature of the Major League Baseball labor dispute which has, at this writing, put Spring Training on hold, let alone the start of the 2022 regular season.
The Barefoot Contessa (not the Food Network show) is a rather unique 1954 celluloid drama starring Humphrey Bogart and glamorous Ava Gardner that is in the regular rotation on the TCM channel.
Happy 2-2-22 Day.
With all news lately, you may have missed a beef over steak that reportedly prompted a recent brawl at a Philadelphia-area Golden Corral restaurant. Video of the incident is embedded below.
It’s that time of year again, when we find out what words/phrases get on everybody’s nerves the most, along with the words that online dictionaries say rose to the top of the search hierarchy.
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