Archive for 2020/06


Ramy

This show is just astoundingly good. Probably the best thing I’ve seen in the stay at home Covid-19 era. I’m not sure, because all of the rest of the shows I watch are so different. They involve crimes, mysteries, figuring things out, whereas “Ramy”… Is like real life. Only it isn’t. Because it’s about a […]

Skyhill Studios

Mad Dogs & Englishmen killed Joe Cocker’s career. But it built Leon Russell’s. Cocker was an FM staple before most people had an FM rock station in their market. After all, this was 1969. In the metropolis, AM faltered, everybody tuned into the FM dial, music was defining the culture and if you wanted to […]

ZeroZeroZero

If this were on Netflix, it would be a big hit. Every show has a backstory, and with “ZeroZeroZero” it’s that the creative force is Robert Saviano, the same guy who did “Gomorrah,” which I haven’t seen yet, because it left Netflix. It’s unclear whether you can watch it on Sundance Now. Well, when you […]

Collaboration

“History Will Judge the Complicit – Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?” This was the most e-mailed article in my inbox this week. It should have been in “The New Yorker.” In case you missed it, the “New Yorker” and the “New York Times” got into […]