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"Bruce Vilanch has had an extremely successful career in comedy writing but has also been attached to some real turkeys. He gives insights on how network TV, Broadway shows, and Awards shows work (or used to - including a primer on the once very po..."
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Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch is known as a go-to comedy writer for award shows, sitcoms, and top-heavy variety specials, but he has also been responsible for quite a few of the worst shows ever made--legendarily bad productions. From The Star...
Spanning four continents and a thousand years, Mark Kurlansky's latest book looks at the role that the cod has played in the history of the world, and offers a warning that the cod is in danger of becoming extinct.
Peter and Rebecca Harris--mid-forties denizens of Manhattan's SoHo, he a dealer, she an editor--are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca's much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known...