I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

The Day will Go On... Until your Life will Go On..

Lane tipped his head nearer so their foreheads gently touched. "I want you more than I've wanted anything in my life, " he said, his voice low and husky. "More than I thought it was possible to want.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

Most loves don't last. But some do.

You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.

A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.