An Unlikely Public Radio Powerhouse
Jarl Mohn’s leadership of NPR is one reason he was honored with the 2016 Los Angeles Press Club’s President’s Award. This article is an expanded version of a profile in the Southern California Journalism Awards program, June 26, 2016 Jarl Mohn shows his 2016 L.A. Press Club President's Award to his wife Pamela moments after his acceptance speech at the Southern California Journalism Awards Jarl Mohn was a surprise choice in 2014 to lead National Public Radio. After all, this
AN APOLOGY TO HARVEY LEVIN
When TMZ on TV started in 2014 I predicted it would fail because it would offend the Hollywood’s awards, event and PR gatekeepers. I was wrong. Harvey Levin has reason to laugh as he hosts the TMZ spinoff show "TMZ Live" in June 2016 with Charles Latibeaudiere Back in 2007 I wrote a column for The Hollywood Reporter about all the reasons a then new show called TMZ could not succeed. On Monday, Warner Bros. renewed Harvey Levin’s show through 2020. I was wrong. So I want to
Sequelitis Infects Movie Box Office
Can The Great Wet Hope (aka Finding Dory) reverse the slow start to the summer season in the face of a glut of sequels. It may but there are still a lot of reasons for movie distributors to be on edge. Disney's Finding Dory is The Great Wet Hope for the summer movie season Only a month and a half into the summer movie season, the slump in box office grosses is already transmitting danger signals about the health of the big screen business in North America and worldwide. While
When Screenwriters Swim With The Sharks
Hollywood movie writers have never gotten much respect and still don’t. Lessons learned talking to the writers of War Dog, Mother’s Day, Through The Looking Glass and Barbershop: The Next Cut The poster for the gathering of press and summer movie screenwriters, put on annually by the Writer's Guild of America, West SCHMUCKS WITH COMPUTERS At an annual press reception to promote writers of summer movies held this week in west Los Angeles, Writers Guild of America President How
In The Hands of The Greatest and The Fight Doctor
Recalling when I saw Muhammad Ali work out in the Catskills in 1976, tenderly hold his baby daughter, beat Ken Norton in a bitterly disputed decision - and then almost got mugged in Yankee Stadium Dr. Ferdie Pacheco at Muhammad Ali's side ; Ali with wife Veronica and baby Hana The passing of Muhammad Ali reminds me of the times I met him in his prime, especially when I covered his third ring battle with Ken Norton in New York City, and watched him train the week before in the
