FWIW, here is my own blow by blow (I had to do something to avoid sticking a fork in my brain while I watched it).
I am surprised that there is no live audience cheering on both Oprah and Leno – that alone makes this about 33% more tolerable than it otherwise would be. If Oprah [...]
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Oprah/Jay blow-by-blow
The Year That Was
I have no interest in doing a “Year In Review” retrospective on the events of my life over the course of the year 2009. To be perfectly honest, I’d rather shove a pencil in my good eye. Fortunately for you and for me, this website is largely devoted to the world of television and entertainment, [...]
“Proud Peacocks And Other Endangered Species”
“Proud Peacocks And Other Endangered Species (A Lazy-Eyed Look At Television)” is a collection of my writing about the world of television, some of it about my days working in the industry, and a lot of it more recently written as my contribution to this website and message board.
Some of the hard-hitting questions I’ve tackled [...]
Kevin Marousek, peacock wrangler
Happened to spot this on the L.A. Times’s excellent Daily Mirror blog. It’s from the April 6, 1969, Times.
Of course, I can’t help but wonder if anyone took them up on the “live peacock” offer — and how the pages were supposed to deal with it.
