Times Square Gossip

**** CABLE GONE WILD **** Replace Time Warner Cable With NETFLIX I have been meaning to write this for a long time. I have never seen a company that has no customer service and really nails the customer when they complain and cancel their account.I am talking about Time Warner Cable. I am not going to get into a big story here, I am on vacation at Dune Point Fire Island working on the first chapters of my new Alec Baldwin book, that hopefully will be ready for everyone to read sometime next year. But when I was on vacation last May, I left New York City forgetting to mail a check, and I can not believe the harassing phone calls from Time Warner,  for a bill around a hundred bucks.  The calls came non-stop and they were automated calls. When I pressed a button to speak to someone, I was on hold for a hour and I finally hung up. Then when this automated system called me again, I pressed the leave a message button and left a message to disconnect m...

**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER By: G.H. Harding **** This Town By Mark Leibovich WINTERBLE HITS THIS TOWN --- XM radio host Brett Winterble interviewed New York Times Magazine chief correspondent Mark Leibovich on his new book This Town; Two Parties and a Funeral plus plenty of Valet Parking! (Blue Rider Press); where Leibovich reflects on Washington and the town it has become. “It’s become a full carnival in recent years; D. C. has become the wealthiest community in the U.S.” Reflecting on the return of such dubious names as Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner, Liebovich says, “The unemployment line in politics is never really that long; you just knew guys like Spiztzer and Weiner would be back, be it with a blog or book.”  Winterble offered up a talk radio show option for them, but Leibovich said the "Moral character of talk radio is way too high even for those guys.” Too funny! MONUMENTS ARE HERE --- Just saw the trailer for the new Georg...

**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER By: G.H. Harding **** George Clooney THE WAY WAY BACK --- Last week we caught The Way, Way Back, which we loved, as much for the slightly-askew casting of Steve Carrel against type, as for the delightful script written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash; who adapted the Kaui Hart Hemming’s The Descendants (starring George Clooney), which won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2011. Though the plot reminded us more than once of Greg Mottolla’s awesome youth-epic Adventureland back in 2001 (Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart), the entire production flows with a electrifying performance from, of all people, Sam Rockwell, as Owen, the manager of the local water park (the Water Wizz), where young Duncan (Liam James) is reeling from his mother’s new relationship with Trent (Carell), who may or may not be cheating on her; and, treats young Duncan like an afterthought; the very first scene of the movie is Carell telling young Duncan he’s ...

**** YOU CAN'T COUNT ON TIME WARNER CABLE NYC IN A EMERGENCY **** Time Warner Cable Lets Customers Down During Storm Well, it's right in the middle of a hurricane and Time Warner cable is out. Considering that most of New York City's cables are underground, this is not right. From speaking to customer representatives, I have a strange feeling that they cut out the service on purpose, to save their equipment like the MTA. This in a time of a emergency, is unthinkable.  If you lose some equipment in a emergency to keep your customers informed to what is happening in the city, then you are doing your job. To keep New Yorkers in the dark at the sake of saving some equipment, just really sucks. As a new Times Warner customer for only two weeks, already it is time to look for a new company that I can count on in case of emergency. Time Warner let New Yorkers down!