I was a Disneyland Cast Member for 15 years. Currently a freelance writer.
The two major U.S. satellite radio companies have finally completed their merger after 16 months of regulatory red tape. One of the major concerns had been that Sirius and XM would be creating a monopoly. I say it is “good” news for customers because they… Read More »Good News For Satellite Radio Customers
Jeremy Herron, AP Business Writer, reports on the annual retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, hosted by investment bank Allen & Co. This is where media and tech execs mingle and make deals. Even the top Internet companies — save maybe Google Inc. — are seeing… Read More »Nothing is Safe When the Moguls Meet in Sun Valley
Sad news today – Stan Winston, known as a special effects wizard but was a man who had much more influence than a mere effects-man-for-hire, has passed away. It is impossible to talk about special effects in the movies without addressing the work of Stan… Read More »Stan Winston Has Passed Away
Mimi Pond has a cartoon in the Los Angeles Times on why it had been twelve years between Disneyland visits. Click through here to see it.
With Anheuser-Busch, the last major “American” beer company possibly to be bought by a European company, the Los Angeles Times ran a piece on the history of the company in southern California. I had already known that there had been a Busch Gardens in Pasadena at… Read More »Busch Gardens…Pasadena
Randy Lewis, in the Los Angeles Times, checks up on how the new CBS Records is doing. With Sony’s music arm in control of old corporate sibling Columbia Records and with the Viacom/CBS split settling ever deeper in, the young CBS Records was launched to provide and… Read More »Music Labels and Television Partner Up
Thelma Keane, who was in the inspiration for the mother in the “Family Circus” comics, has passed away. Her husband, Bil, created the comic and Thelma managed the business, in addition to providing inspiration and a whole bunch of children. One of their sons, Jeff,… Read More »Condolences to the Keane Family
I review the latest Indiana Jones film and report from the campout at the Big Newport in Newport Beach here.