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Discretion — the act of being discreet — isn’t tough to grasp. In simple terms, it’s the art and act of looking around to weigh circumstances before you open your big mouth, lest you needlessly hurt someone’s feelings and/or get punched in your big mouth. Personally, I’ve long been in the habit of perusing the …
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In a “Dobie Gillis” sitcom, circa 1960, Dobie, the son of a grocer, has a rival for the attention of his love interests. His name is Milton Armitage — the drop-dead handsome, fabulously wealthy, vain, selfish classmate played by Warren Beatty. At the malt shop, Milton declares he’s prepared to run against Dobie in the …
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Anyone hear anything about a virus going around? Desperate times, desperate measures, desperate sports columnist. Alternative TV and radio pandemic programming and executive decisions: I’m particularly excited by the new MLB program on Fox, “We Pick It Up In The Seventh,” which will show the endings of World Series games that ended far too late …
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Spike Lee and Charles Oakley starred in full-page newspaper ads Friday as heroes of the downtrodden. But where would racial hustlers be if not for selectively sighted, pandering, frightened media? Since the Lee-Jimmy Dolan hassle — an epic struggle between the excessively self-entitled — Oakley, who had his own war with Dolan, has repeated his …
Discretion — the act of being discreet — isn’t tough to grasp. In simple terms, it’s the art and act of looking around to weigh circumstances before you open your big mouth, lest you needlessly hurt someone’s feelings and/or get punched in your big mouth. Personally, I’ve long been in the habit of perusing the …
