Author: Ed Goldman

I’m guessing you’ve heard that this coming November are the country’s midterm elections. I mean, it was in all the papers—but since there are fewer and fewer of those, I can’t blame you for missing the news.

Though I’ve never been a true news junkie, I confess to being a newspaper junkie.

Hollywood is a lot like us in one respect: It runs out of given names—and even surnames.

I recently attended a Catholic Mass. The good news is that I didn’t burst into flames upon entering the cathedral.

Watching a barrage of TV commercials for drugs on CNN, which were occasionally interrupted by newscasts, it occurred to me that the product warnings and disclaimers that follow each spot are almost as long as the spot itself.