Rocci Fisch watches what's out there and has a lot to say about it. "Random Thoughts" is a quick-read, running commentary column which features his observations about the news, pop culture and the media, zested up with Rocci's unique humor.
In listing the Sunday morning talk shows Mediabistro, a website featuring various blogs, job postings and news about the broadcast industry, writer Betsy Rothstein made a comment about the sexual makeup of the “roundtables” of the talkers – the pundits, the talking heads -- to see “how many females are fairing …”
. . . And how many “schlongs” they’re planning to have on this week.
. . .Prince Michael Jackson. He, 16, was on “Entertainment Tonight” all last week as an on-air correspondent, “reporting” on the new “Wizard of Oz” movie, “Oz (no comma) the Great and Powerful.”
. . . (He has a special connection because his father was in another version of the film in “The Wiz,” in 1978 in which daddy played the Scarecrow. Movie was a bomb.
. . .That was her promise for theSuper Bowl, in contrast to what she did at the inauguration. I guess she fulfilled it.
. . .In order to ensurestandards and practicesI was gonna suggest sendingBrian Rossand hisABC investigative teamdown there toNew Orleansto monitor the proceedings, to make sure she wouldn’t cheat again?
. . .Congress, that is. The plaintiffs came back fromChristmasbreak to deal with the budget package so the country doesn’t fall off the cliff.
. . .Now here comes the judge. (“Here Comes the Judge” –Pigmeat Markham,1968onChess Recordsand byShorty LongonSoul Records, also1968– two separate songs.)
. . .Speaker of the HouseJohn Boehnerlikes holding up a giant gavel that’s as big as a croquet mallet to show that he’s still in charge even though a plan he had on the docket for tax hikes was rejected by conservatives.
. . .announced a volunteer vendor inD.C.onK Streetjust outside theMetrohawking the newspaper “Street Sense.”
. . .Boy, that’s a phrase you don’t hear much of theseInternetdays, when everybody reads their junk off their mobiles. (They do have a website: streetsense.org.)
. . .But it was good to hear, especially for an (aging?)baby boomer. Brought back the glory days of yesteryear.
“This storm is amonster,” saidGeorge Stephanopoulosin one breath and in the next got right down to politics and began talking with “This Week” first guest of the morning,Stephanie Cutter,Obama’sdeputy campaign manager, who appears on anything at the drop of a hat.
. . .To get the message out.
. . . “George,” asABCalways affectionately refers to him, talks fast, likes to move things right along -- at breakneck speed with hardly a pause at the end of a sentence. Barely time to take a breath.
PRE-SHOW:Katherine Schwarzenegger, along with sometime co-hostChris Jacobs, gave a preview on the debate onEntertainment Tonight,Hollywoodstyle. She must be a “contributor” to the show; they’re a dime a dozen.
. . .She looks just like her motherMaria. She’s got the looks and the dangling hair, except her tresses are dark.
. . .“The debate tonight may decide the election,” she predicted.
