Is worth the price for the Dylan stories alone. Although I was addicted to Letterman in the eighties, when Paul led the Most Dangerous Band, before the switch to 11:30, when "Late Night" was seemingly an extension of seventies SNL, often as funny and frequently as inventive, that’s not why I bought this book. Yes, […]

1. Barbra Streisand "Love Is The Answer" Sales this week: 180,415Debut The story here is her staying power. The media would have you believe she’s a hated left-winger who’s burned all her credibility.  But that appears to be untrue. Then again, this is a measly number when one looks at the entire country.  But it’s […]

Just want to hip you to this week’s "New Yorker", the "Money Issue". There’s so much good shit here, I almost couldn’t turn out the light last night. Start with Tad Friend’s article on Nikki Finke, "Call Me – Why Hollywood Fears Nikki Finke".  Not only are Ms. Finke’s personality and working agenda delineated, you […]

I rented a Hyundai. They pulled up this eggplant colored piece of shit, with the Coke-bottle flairs over the rear wheels, and I winced.  A Hyundai?  Wasn’t there anything else? This was it.  We’d already waited in line for twenty minutes at Enterprise.  This had just come in.  Had just been cleaned.  There were no […]