Winter Olympics: if you think I'll spend as much as five seconds watching some so-called man dressed in pants two sizes to small with spangles dangling from beneath his arms and eye makeup on his eye sockets ice skating to Judy Garland vocals you must be out of your mind.
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Oh Howie, you're an ex-actor. That means we suspect you're secretly gay, too. ;0}
About the Olympics on TV: I watched some of the men's skiing last night. The coverage seems very old-fashioned. You only see short bits and pieces the network wants you to see.
Four years ago, the last time they had an Olympics, there was talk about live TV via the Internet to provide much more breadth and depth of Olympics coverage. It's pretty obvious that the Olympics people didn't buy into that.
This 2006 Olympics NBC ( ? I can't keep the names of the old TV networks straight ) coverage is not only pre-Internet, it's old TV network way of framing the events seems positively pre-cable TV. Sports announcer Jim Lampley as your host to little snippets of the Olympics, what a bore.
I doubt if ratings are going to be too good. The Olympic Committee people are hurting the Olympics long range by not allowing better coverage of the Winter Olympics for Americans, but smart guys like me aren't on the Olympics Committee.
-- david.davenport.1@netzero.com
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