Aaron Barnhart
Aaron Barhnart is TV critic for the Kansas City Star and the founder of TV Barn.com.
Recent Stories by Aaron Barnhart
With Leno Off ‘Tonight,’ is There a New King of Late Night?
When Americans are looking to soothe their frazzled nerves after a long day, late-night TV shows have always been happy to oblige. But these days, the world of late night is as topsy-turvy as the real world we’re trying to......
Barnhart on Letterman: This is Creepy-—Telling a Story About Having Sex With Your Employees to People Who LAUGH and APPLAUD
Wow.I don't know where to begin with David Letterman's bizarro, play-it-for-laughs on-air admission that he had sex with staff members.On the one hand, good for him for telling a fairly unvarnished account of being blackmailed by a Connecticut man for......
A Show I'm Mad About, And it's Not on HBO. Come Join the Fun
This may not be the golden age of television, but perhaps it’s the titanium age: high quality in large quantities.There are so many good shows now that the people who watch TV for a living are being forced to specialize.......
Matt Damon’s ‘History’ is made (finally), With Marisa Tomei
In the movie “Good Will Hunting,” Matt Damon’s character sees a book on a shelf. It is “A People’s History of the United States” by radical historian Howard Zinn.“This,” Damon tells his shrink, “will knock you on your ass.”That......


