January 2011
15 posts
Five days until The Truants invade Otto's Shrunken...
This is what we’re closing with. Or, as I...
Again, we are not in the taste-making business....
….so I’ll just say that BARNEY’S VERSION is as good a film as I’ve seen in a long time. And as good-looking a film as I’ve ever seen.
But it all starts with the story, and you cannot beat a novel by the Canadian meld of Updike and Roth, Mordechai Richler. I discovered Richler in 1980 when I read a hockey piece he wrote for Inside Sports in which he referred to Gordie...
Here is a recent chest-puffing email....
To: billscheft@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 1:59 AM Bill Scheft: The Mancow Radio Show invites you to join Mancow on the air for a brief phone interview to discuss your experience writing for The Late Show, and also touch on your book, “Everything Hurts.” Our team would love to take a look at a copy of your book, which can be sent to: ————- C/o...
Novel Writing 101: When something happens to a...
….remember it for a couple of years, then ask if you can rework the story in a book. And by rework I mean strip to its essence. Here is the latest installment from the new novel:
The only time I ever recall being targeted as a Jew was an accident. It was my last year in New Haven, 1994-95, shortly after the introduction of inter-office email at WTNH, Channel 8, where I was the...
16 days till The Truants saddle up at Otto's...
(flip side of “Wipe Out…”)
Programming reminder: I will be on Bob and Tom...
…at 7 am trying to fit as many Rex Ryan fat and fetish jokes as I can as time and the FCC permits. (NOTE: Three uses of “as” in 12 words. Sadly, not the record.)
Rather than deal with Patriots post-mortems, let's...
I don't want to steer any YouTube traffic away...
Someone in the psychotherapy field once told...
….that when I am exposed to an extremely high level of narcissism, I tend to short-circuit emotionally. Yesterday, I missed this exchange on-air between Mike Francesa, a New York-based sports radio institution, and a caller. Francesa is as knowledgeable as he is solipcistic, and I am a regular listener because I find the combination endlessly compelling.
CALLER: Hey Mike, can you at least...
I have already extolled the virtues of my Late...
…Steve Young’s site Celebrigum. Well, guess who was caught during what I can only assume was a tech rehearsal yesterday?
(On the other hand, maybe they thought Jimmy Smits had stopped by….)
A New Year's Day tradition: Me on Showtime in...
In the May of 1982, I was coming out of the Catch a Rising Star offices, which were then in the Carnegie Hall building. I was walking East on 57th Street when I saw a movie set on the sidewalk and people milling around. “I’m not going to be an asshole and walk through this set,” I thought (which was odd because in those days, I was an asshole with the frequency of a bodily...