Popular Culture |
31 March 2003
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Charles Barkley Makes Intelligent Comment
Charles Barkley was a fair basketball player, and is a pretty lame broadcaster. However, "Sir Charles" (according to the basketball media and no one else) did make an interesting point this week, to wit, "You know the world is off tilt when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest basketball player is Chinese, and Germany doesn't want to go to war." As the comedians say, it is funny because it is true. For more, click here.
Talk Show Oasis in TV's Daytime Desert
If TV is a vast wasteland (and it largely is), there are no words to describe how truly awful daytime TV is. It is a parade of dysfunctional twits who, in any decent society, would be a source of shame rather than entertainment, locked away for treatment instead of placed on exhibit. In the midst of all that, ABC has a man named Wayne Brady doing a talk show that is too small for his great and numerous talents, and one can only hope it launches a bigger and better venue for him. Click here to read on.