GLORIA STEINEM KNOCKS NBC’S PLAYBOY CLUB DRAMA

At the television critics summer press tour, Gloria Steinem, the feminist writer who famously worked as a bunny at the Playboy Club in order to write an article about it, was asked what she thought about NBC’s plans to air a dramatic series based on the goings-on at the Chicago club in the 1960s. “Are [...]

LENO TAKES ANOTHER ONE ON THE CHIN

Now even Jay Leno’s guests are firing zingers in his direction. Without mentioning Leno by name, Alyson Hannigan, who co-stars on CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, complained, “Certain [late-night] hosts have you do your pre-interview and then you have to go on the show and retell every story verbatim or you’re not coming back. [...]