- advertising is based on one thing: happiness. - [shouting excitedly] - is there any taboo that you wouldn t break? - not if there was a funny idea. - what is wrong with you? - there s so much different storytelling - and so many different stories being told - about so many different people. - i don t think dramatic series television has ever been stronger. - there s no longer this theory of what - popular entertainment must be. - incoming! - who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. [slowly building orchestral music] - this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows, and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. - i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. - we are dependent on sponsors. there is so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, and in terms of sex. - to a large degree, a lot of executives we
And welcome to politics and prose. Im brad graham im the coowner of the bookstore along with my wife, melissa muscatine and were very pleased to be hosting a Jeff Benedict whos here to talk about his new book lebron jeffs had quite a varied career. He practiced for a while and was active in politics, even ran for congress and in connecticut a couple of decades ago and then worked to to limit gambling in that state. Hes been a journalist writing for such publications as Sports Illustrated and the Los Angeles Times. And along the way, hes authored coauthored more than a dozen works of nonfiction. But these have included bestselling books about tiger woods and the new England Patriots, as well as a legal thriller, pink house, about a landmark case on Eminent Domain and poisoned about the biggest Food Poisoning outbreak in the United States. Hes also had a hand in producing or movies based on some of his books. His new biography about lebron james is about someone who, of course, of many o
take something that s familiar, and give it some chili pepper. advertising is based on one thing, happiness. is there any taboo that you wouldn t break? not if there was a funny idea. what is wrong with you? there s so much different storytelling, and so many different stories being told about so many different people. i don t think dramatic series television has ever been stronger. there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their full lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. right. there is so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, and in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of exec
not if there was a funny idea. what is wrong with you? there s so much different storytelling and so many different stories being told about so many different people. i don t think dramatic series television has ever been stronger. there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there is so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long
too early on this wednesday, january 11. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president biden says he is cooperating fully with a review into how classified documents from the obama administration ended up in an office he used after his time he spent as vice president. he commented for the first time. people know i take classified documents, classified information, seriously. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records taken there to that office. but i don t know what is in the documents. my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. and we re cooperating fully with the review which i hope will be finished soon and there will be more detail at that time. two sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news that president biden s personal lawyers discovered fewer than a dozen classified documents at the penn biden center, a think tank in washington, d.c., that discovery made back on n