You know what they say about opinions and assholes, right?

Well, there are a whole lot of both flying around since Chris Brown deleted his Twitter account over the weekend after a brief, vulgar exchange with comedian Jenny Johnson that went down like this [jump here for...

There is a significant amount of criticism aimed at HBO's The Newsroom, and I agree with much of it. I wanted the show to be subtler, like Mad Men, with anchorman Will McAvoy at the heart as a conflicted soul whose every move not only reveals,...

When I grow up, I want to be Julia Ormond. Not the unsatisfied booze-swilling mother-in-law to Don Draper character she plays on Mad Men (who performs a blowie on a Sterling Cooper colleague -- shield your eyes Sally!) but the woman herself. A woman who appears comfortable in her own...

There's a sweet exhilaration associated with the moment you first realize something you really like has intersected with something you're good at. I imagine artists or athletes have these moments more often than most, but mine? It was with foosball. The first time I hit a tight, whip-fast shot into...

At the beginning of the first season of House of Lies, Marty Kaan's father asks him, "Since when is management consulting a real job?" Kaan (played by Don Cheadle) responds: "Since it pays seven figures a year." That's a pretty serious exaggeration for 95 percent of the consultants...