If The Networks Can Get

In The 500-channel Universe, Which May, Of Course, Contain Many More Channels Than 500, The Fun Never Stops - Fun At Such A Fever Pitch As To Sometimes Seem Threatening, Numbing, Even Agonizing.

In The Realm Of Pop Celebrity, The Bar Has Been Lowered So Far That There Is No Bar. People Can Be Famous For Being Famous, Famous For Being Infamous, Famous For Having Once Been Famous And, Thanks Largely To The Internet, Famous For Not Being Famous At All.

Television's Escapist Programming Naturally Continues To Endorse Living Beyond One's Means As The Time-tested American Way And Rarely Depicts Families Or Individuals Wracked By The Pressures And Miseries That Come With Excess.

By A Twist Of Fate Rather Than Anything Approaching Journalistic Enterprise, I Did The Last Major Interview With Johnny Carson.

"more Fun Than A Barrel Of Monkeys." Has Anyone Ever Stopped To Think How Cranky, If Not Downright Vicious, A Barrelful Of Monkeys Would Be, Especially Once Released From The Barrel?