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Mike Sadowski is pretty boring, but here's the quick scoop: Lifelong NEPA resident, Abington Heights grad ('93), Elizabethtown College grad ('97), sports reporter ('97-'99), news and cops reporter ('99-'04) and pretty much doing everything at the Read FullCategories
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Author Archives: Mike Sadowski
Mike Sadowski
The end of the Coreys
Generation X hasn’t had one of it’s major icons that it completely owned die yet. Not really.
Michael Jackson rose to extreme fame during the 80s, but first tasted celebrity in the 70s. Maybe I’m missing someone, but all the members of Brat Pack are still alive, Madonna looks like she’s going to try to live to [...]
Is your favorite show coming back?
A couple quick PopRox programming notes:
--I’ve set up the official PopRox NCAA tournament bracket at Yahoo. I did it last year at ESPN, and it didn’t work out too well because I started it too late. This year, I’m getting the jump on it. It’s free to play, it’s just for PopRox bragging rights. You [...]
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bigelow’s big night
Has anyone ever had a better Oscar night than Kathryn Bigelow?
The only thing she didn’t do during the four-hour telecast Sunday was cure cancer. Wait, did she? In the span of four hours, consider the following:
–She watched and smiled ear-to-ear and clapped profusely while her little movie about an American Army bomb defusing team in Iraq [...]
Posted in Movies, Pop Culture Tagged avatar, bigelow, brudges, bullock, cameron, hurt locker, inglourious basterds, mo'nique, oscars, precious, steve martin, suzy amis, tarantino, up in the air 0 Comments
Oscar picks not as hard as usual — 10 movies or not
Making Oscar picks is hard. Kind of like how hard it’s going to be for Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin to make a cohesive, thoughtful joke Sunday night.
First, you have to see all the movies. Then you have to formulate your own opinions on those movies. Then you watch all the other awards shows to see [...]
Final Nip/Tuck thoughts …
Oscar preview tomorrow!
Some lingering thoughts from the Nip/Tuck finale (all spoilers, stop RIGHT NOW if you haven’t seen it yet and proceed right to the screen shot of Jim and Pam):
--I liked it. There were only two ways the show could possibly end. Either Sean and Christian would hope the first flight to Vermont to [...]
Posted in Movies, Music, Pop Culture, TV, The Local Scene Tagged asteroids, frat pack, gilligan's island, johnny depp, monopoly, nip/tuck finale, pitfall, river raid, sean kingston, space invaders, the delivery, the office 0 Comments
The end of Nip/Tuck
It won’t be as big as when Lost ends in May. It’s nowhere near the level of a Seinfeld or Friends finale.
It won’t even be as big as a Two and a Half Men series finale.
But when Nip/Tuck ends tonight after six tumultuous seasons that redefined how TV — cable stations specifically -- could construct a primetime [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, TV Tagged alec baldwin, fx, george lucas, jennifer o'dell, nip/tuck finale, nip/tuck joan rivers, revenge of the sith, terence mann, the carver, todd rundgren 0 Comments
Buy a T-shirt! And the hottest DWTS cast. Ever.
One quick plug before we roll into a super-sized edition of PopRox to try and make up for slacking lately:
Buy a T-shirt! Now! Seriously, we’re selling these T-shirts in conjunction with the Great Pocono Weight Race. They’re $15, and all the proceeds will go to the Diabetic Education Program at Pocono Medical Center. We’re trying to [...]
Posted in Movies, Pop Culture, TV, The Local Scene Tagged amber waves, angelina jolie, ben stiller, die hard 5, erin andrews, glee, great pocono weight race, leno, megan fox, nicole scherzinger, pamela anderson, parenthood, pussycat dolls, shannen doherty, simpsons, tonight show, zoolander 2 0 Comments
Our salute to the Crazy Friend
There is a tradition in the TV sitcom formula called the Crazy Friend.
Crazy Friend rarely gets anything better than fourth-or-fifth billing, if they even make the opening credits at all. Sometimes it’s a neighbor (Wilson from Home Improvement), sometimes it’s a classmate (Millhouse in Simpsons) or it could be a co-worker (Morgan from Chuck). They have about [...]
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Leno-Conan fire still flaming
Stay off those roads if you can!
You’d probably feel bad for Conan O’Brien until you remember that he’s being paid a hefty sum to stay away from television. Good for him for figuring out how to get to his fans, and shame on NBC for not adding a social networking clause to the agreement it [...]
Posted in Movies, Music, Pop Culture, TV Tagged aerosmith, alec baldwin, ben harper, captain america, conan, dave matthews, jim halpert, john krasinski, leno, nbc, Olympics 0 Comments
Hangin’ at The Office