Posted on August 17, 2015 at 8:29 pm
It was great to hear that Tracy Morgan, who has been recovering from a serious automobile accident in June of 2014, will host the first “Saturday Night Live” episode of the 2015-2016 season. It will be a homecoming for the comic actor, who appeared on “Saturday Night Live” from 1996-2003. Other hosts for the upcoming fall episodes include Amy Schumer and Miley Cyrus.
Posted on August 17, 2015 at 3:38 pm
Writer Bill Bryson came back to the US after 20 years in Great Britain and decided to reacquaint himself with his home country by walking the Appalachian Trail. And he took along a friend, or maybe a friend-ish, a cranky guy who was the only one who would come along, primarily because he had nothing else to do. In the grand tradition of other hiking sagas like Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
— but much funnier — he wrote A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Posted on August 16, 2015 at 3:28 pm
“Show Me a Hero” is a new miniseries on HBO from David Simon (“The Wire”) and Paul Haggis (“Crash”), starring Oscar Isaac (“Inside Llewyn Davis”). It is the story of racial, class, and political tensions in 1970’s Yonkers, New York, based on the book of the same name by Lisa Belkin
The title comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald, who said, “Show me a hero and I’ll show you a tragedy.” Wasicsko’s story did not end well. Maybe telling it now will help his idealistic vision come closer to reality.
Behind the scenes:
Simon and Haggis spoke about the show on CBS This Morning:
Posted on August 16, 2015 at 8:00 am
Posted on August 16, 2015 at 8:00 am
