Growing up in the ’80s I watched a fair number of daytime talk shows. The genre has almost completely disappeared, as rare these days as a soap opera, replaced by chat shows, cooking demos, and DIY home projects. The emphasis in the last twenty years has been on selling: actors hawk movies, lifestyle gurus sellContinue reading “Descent from Donahue”
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Close To #Me
The #metoo movement has inspired a plethora of book titles, ranging from literary fiction to autobiography. The best known is Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill, an engrossing but repetitive account of his pursuit of sexual assault claims against Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer despite pushback from NBC, his then employer. A contender in the fictionContinue reading “Close To #Me”
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