Academy Award winner for “20 Feet From Stardom,” as well as director of last summer’s surprise hit “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” Morgan Neville is the go-to documentarian. His Rick Rubin docuseries premieres on Showtime on July 12th. Morgan’s a huge music fan, listen to how he got from there to here, I could have […]

You know you’re striking a nerve when you get a reaction. This is an analog of “all press is good press.” In the attention economy, it’s nearly impossible to get attention. But Elizabeth Warren has figured out how to do this, and the heads of those on the right are exploding. I know, I hear […]

This should be the television hit of the summer. My only anxiety is the five night a week stripping (as in TV, not clothing, but that will happen too) and the practice of U.S. television to focus on the surface as opposed to the essence. This is not about who is the best-looking, this is […]

She’s not using consultants. And she raised $19.1 million dollars last quarter, nearly as much as Biden and Buttigieg. Even more dramatically, she’s not doing the fat cat fundraisers and phone calls. How did she do this? Via message, via credibility, via eschewing the conventional wisdom. Message. That’s the song. It always comes down to […]