THB #262: Thankful 2022

I believe this is the 25th year I have written this Thanksgiving, as in the first year of The Hot Button, I was maxed at 250 words (maybe even a character count). And with all the ups and downs of life, I still find myself grateful every year.

When this all started online in 1997, my guess is that I would have ended or been ended at Entertainment Weekly within a year or two. I was not what they wanted, really. And I am too stubborn. But the late great Andy Jones found me at ShoWest and recruited me and roughcut.com paid me nicely to do a weekly online. After my father passed, I decided to do what I wanted, which was the daily column, which was the first of its kind. There were no blogs. There were no online newsletters. Just Army Archer’s daily gossip sheet in Variety.

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There was also no money for my new daily in the roughcut.com budget, so I did it for free for the first 5 months. I poked a lot of bears. But Scot Safon, who was in charge of the site for TNT cable, suppo…