July 17, 2004

TV Critic Quote of the Week

“Being the host of ESPN's "Around the Horn" should have been the death of a television career. But for Max Kellerman, an annoying loudmouth, it was an inexplicable triumph, if you believe that careers are built on playing the howling ringmaster/emcee/buzzer-pusher for a daily quartet of sportswriters who should know better than to appear on such shows…

The chemistry on "I, Max" is of three men - two of them immensely unlikable - who are sharing a private joke. The insults between Kellerman and Holley sound like an act they have been told to perform - in fulfillment of a faux boxing match - and Wolff's oleaginous style would give any sensate viewer the heebie-jeebies.”


-New York Times critic Richard Sandomir reviewing Fox Sports Net's "I Max," in a piece that feels much more like blog writing than NYT writing. (Via Off Wing Opinion)

Posted by Stephen Silver at July 17, 2004 09:48 PM
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