Outside the Beltway

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.

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.

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

Amazon has joined Apple to become the second American corporation to reach $1,000,000,000,000 in market valuation.

Social media has altered the way writers and readers interact in odd ways.

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

As much as we hate paying $200 a month for television, the future is likely going to be worse.

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

The leading candidate for the GOP nomination for Tennessee’s next Governor has a unique explanation for gun violence.

Does learning that entertainers are bad people retroactively ruin their art?

The new President of the National Rifle Association has a new theory to explain mass shootings, but there’s no basis for believing it’s accurate.

The inventor of New Journalism has died of unknown causes.

Rest in Peace, Lois Lane.

Does the administration know what it is doing?

The tragedy of Bill Cosby lies not in the downfall of a man once known as “America’s Dad,” but in the fact that a man who was, in fact, a sexual predator was allowed to evade justice for far too long.

Whether they like it or not, Republican candidates in the midterms will have to run with the albatross of Donald Trump around their necks.

The Director of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘Amadeus,’ both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, has died at the age of 86.

The Marvel superhero film passed ‘Titanic’ in US ticket sales. Unless we adjust for inflation. Which we absolutely should.

Fred Kaplan fails to make the case for buying an ultra-high definition TV right now.

The actor best known for his run on M*A*S*H died Saturday after a battle with colon cancer.

Is it legal for retail businesses to restrict gun sales based on age? The short answer appears to be yes.

Salary-based definitions distort the conversation. And lifestyle-based definitions are a moving target.

Some thoughts on the biggest Marvel blockbuster yet. [Modest spoilers]

An emerging technology will take “fake news” to a whole new level.

If a law enforcement officer with 30 years of experience can’t stop an active school shooter, what makes anyone think a teacher with a gun can?

Dodge is facing controversy this morning for using the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Super Bowl commercial, but they’re not the only party who may have some questions to answer.

A loss for the world of comedy.

R.I.P., Caped Crusader

Roger Moore, who played James Bond for a longer period and in more films than any other actor to date, has died at the age of 89.

When a prominent political scientist committed suicide yesterday, I was deeply struck by how much he was like not only me but most of the people in my professional circle.

Another step toward making it easier to cut the cord.

Another television icon has passed away.

A long-standing staple of American culture will soon be no more.

Rest in Peace, Princess. May the Force be with you.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

Rest In Peace, Mrs. Brady.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

A drought that began when Theodore Roosevelt was President has finally come to an end.

A skilled comedian and unlikely leading man has passed away at the age of 83.

The creator of some of the most popular television programming of the 1970s has passed away at the age of 81.

“Tom, can you get me off the hook? For old times’ sake?”

“Can’t do it, Sally.”