Carl Kurlander

Happy birthday, Louie Anderson. We miss you. youtu.be/i4WwFONP_aM?si… via @YouTube @LouieAnderson #comedy #louieanderson

Frank Sinatra, the Jukebox and the Coin Man See the Substack below about how my Grandpa Jack and the jukebox helped launch Old Blue Eyes career. open.substack.com/pub/jukeboxsto…

Watching the Oscars, hearing @DemiMoore played on to the St. Elmo's fire theme. On Friday, Andrew McCarthy posted about finding the script for St. Elmo's and got 22,000 Likes, Thoughts on Andrew's Kevin character, director Joel Schumacher and the 80s open.substack.com/pub/cklander/p…

Back from Palm Springs where in 1984 I wrote part of "St. Elmo's Fire" with Joel Schumacher (who was openly gay) and tomorrow I give a lecture about gay representation in movies and saw this op-ed by @johntcaseyjr about that or lack there of.Crazy! advocate.com/voices/st-elmo…. .

Can't wait to see the new Star Wars episode AI comes up with on the movie about Open AI vs. Anthropic and Sam vs. Dario Check out this article: cnn.com/2026/02/27/tec…

The State of the Union, The U.S. Hockey Team, Lenny Skutnik, and the Power of the Media, by @Ckurlander open.substack.com/pub/carlkurlan… @jaketapper @harrylitman @TalkingFeds @bariweiss @thefreepress24

wellnessliving.com/explore/locati… If you are in Pittsburgh, this is the place i strongly recommend for #Taichi and movement.

A strange list for #Stelmosfire to be on considering some of the relationships in the script-- especially Kevin and Kirbo, are based on my own disfunctional relationships, but thank you, I guess? bbc.com/culture/articl…. .

Curious the crowd. Hope to see Elon, Jeff, and Larry there. I'm sure they pay their fare share of taxes, right? And there philanthropies put Carnegie to shame. Join the March for Billionaires in San Francisco on Feb 7, 2026 marchforbillionaires.org

Thinking of Catherine O' Hara whose last film appearance was in the John Candy doc "I Like Me." I never met her, but below is my adventure with John on the first film where he was the lead. He died at 43. Her 71. Both too soon. by @Ckurlander open.substack.com/pub/carlkurlan…

Hope for Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Country?, by @Ckurlander Tomorrow, @CBSNews comes to Pittsburgh. As @tonydokoupil ends his tour in the hometown of @bariweiss . Why I am hoping it may be a transformative moment this 250 year old democracy needs. carlkurlander.substack.com/p/hope-for-bar…

Not Wag the dog, Wag the Kennel.

@CBSEveningNews @tonydokoupil Trust requires you asking hard questions. Hope you live up to your own words not so aligned with the agenda of the administration as your first broadcast must have made them very happy (V is liberated, Tim Walz, Senator Kelly under attack, vaccine restrictions soft-pedaled.)

We’re meeting you where you are — in cities across America, and on your favorite platforms. Tonight, the CBS Evening News with @tonydokoupil will air live on CBS, at the same time it streams across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and Facebook. The show will broadcast from Miami and feature a conversation with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado amid ongoing reaction to Nicolás Maduro’s capture. Florida is home to the largest Venezuelan population in the United States, and after the show, we’ll continue the conversation on our social channels @cbseveningnews. See you at 6:30 p.m. ET, America.

Stephen's grandfather who escaped Belarus in 1903 because of anti-semetic pogroms and avoided the regime of that German guy who invaded Poland and a few others, must be so proud. Might makes right? Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/…

So @CDCgov just announced fewer childhood vaccines, may be good to recall what life was like before @EndPolioNow theconversation.com/the-world-risk…

The Real Marty Supreme who inspired Timothee Chalamet's new movie and how I almost wrote a movie about him thanks to his friend comedian Jackie Mason @martysupreme @RealChalamet youtu.be/QSrNTwkzaYM?si… via @YouTube

The world risks forgetting one of humanity’s greatest triumphs as polio nears global eradication − 70 years after Jonas Salk developed the vaccine downtoearth.org.in/health/the-wor… @EndPolioNow @gatesfoundation @BillGates @MarkSuzman @UNICEF

In thinking of Rob Reiner this week, looking back on a appreciation the Boston Globe did for the 50th anniversary of All in the Family and why it still speaks to us today. bostonglobe.com/2021/01/09/nat…

7 years ago a gun man walked into a temple blocks from our house and started firing Remembering nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opi…