Outside the Beltway

The original star of ‘Happy Days’ reflects on the shift to second fiddle.

I sense a great disturbance in the Force. As if a billion voices are crying out “No, not Chewie!!!!”

A year and a half into the #MeToo era, we’re still debating who gets to have a career.

A classic demonstration of the old maxim, “the medium is the message.”

One of the most bizarre cases in recent memory gets . . . much more bizarre.

“His sexual needs were his sexual needs.” And, you know, criminal.

Luke Perry’s death is a sad reminder.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.

Ku Klux Klan jokes, fake lynchings, and the like were routinely depicted even at places like Cornell.

Saturday Night Live mocked the President’s declaration of a ‘national emergency,” which caused him to lash out on Twitter.

RIP, Dolly.

Washington State has a problem with people stealing “Mile 420” signs, so they’ve come up with a solution.

I’m not saying it was aliens, but……..

While most Hollywood blockbusters have male leads, films starring women actually do better on the aggregate.

A fifty-year-old song is getting new scrutiny in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

It’s been thirty-five years since one of the best music videos of all-time was released.

The morning show co-hosts tied the knot at a secret ceremony at the National Archives.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Now it all started fifty-three Thanksgivings ago . . .

Forty years ago tonight, the Star Wars universe came to television in a production so bad that it makes Jar Jar Binks seem positively Shakespearean by comparison.

Rest in Peace and Excelsior, Stan Lee!

One of the longest-lasting characters on The Simpsons may not be long for this world, but before we write him off perhaps we ought to stop and think.

Once the iconic American retail store, Sears now faces the possibility that it may end up fading into history.

Should celebrities use their influence in partisan politics?

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

One last Kavanaugh Cold Open.

Saturday Night Live inevitably mocked the Ford/Kavanaugh hearing on Thursday in their cold open.

After forty years, a sexual predator finally gets at least some of what he deserves.

New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.

The tough guy actor best known for the “Smokey And The Bandit” movies has passed away at the age of 82.

The masturbator-harasser is doing stand-up again.

Iconic Broadway legend Neil Simon, who was responsible for hits such as “The Odd Couple, has died at the age of 91.

ESPN won’t air the National Anthem before regular season games this year, but that probably won’t stop the President from ranting about it.

RIP. Queen Of Soul

Omarosa Manigault Newman, who used to be a Trump favorite, is out with a book that makes sensationalistic claims about the Trump Administration. The real story, though, is what she has on tape and how she got it.

Make it so!

You might say he body slammed the opposition.

Was one of the pioneering African-American entertainers a “house Negro”?

ABC is bringing back Roseanne without Roseanne Barr. Whether that will prove to be a success or not remains to be seen.

For the second time in three years, we have a Triple Crown winner.

Anthony Bourdain was a renowned chef, writer, television host, and storyteller. He also suffered from demons that ultimately caught up with him.

Most Americans disagree with Trump on the N.F.L. National Anthem protests, but Republicans are behind him.

In what seems like an obvious response to the rise of the #MeToo movement and the cultural changes it has brought about, the Miss America pageant is making a major change.

It may be my favorite Star Wars film since ‘Empire Strikes Back.’

Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been charged with rape and sexual assault in a New York Court.

Jack Johnson, who was convicted of violating the Mann Act in a case obviously infected with racism, has been pardoned by President Trump.